Please allow Steam License holders to buy a standalone PC License.

[Yaibatsu]

I hope that this is the truth here, because it feels like Customer Service provides conflicting answers. But according to this article here: https://www.fanbyte.com/news/ffxiv-s...region-locked/

“For existing users, we understand that there may be cases where the country information in the Steam account provided by Valve does not perfectly match the country/region information of the Square Enix account. Therefore, we have not set restrictions that would impede pre-existing users who wish to link their accounts.”

Although regionality will not affect the linking process for existing accounts, there will still be a regional restriction on newly purchased registration codes. If you buy the game via Steam, the country of the Steam store/account will have to match the region of that user’s Square Enix account.

It seems people may be fine? Just with future expacs you might have to rely on getting a copy gifted from the appropriate Region via friends. Or it could mean that simply entirely new accounts require a matching region, but pre existing ones won't. Either way, this should hopefully curb a lot of the problems people would face otherwise.