FF14ARR on Steam! And some unanswered questions...

[cotti]

Oh my, why did they choose that horrible ad?

It gives away two of the most spoiler-y pieces of music in the game. Where's the mystery if they give away the final dungeon and the final battle theme? What the hell were they thinking?

[Metabug]

There is a notice on this...

Notice: The NA version of FINAL FANTASY® XIV: A Realm Reborn™ will require a North American Square Enix Account to play.

A Square Enix Account without any previous Windows version of FFXIV registered, may receive 30 days of free game time.

Monthly subscription required to play.

This notice was added only several hours after ARR went on steam. (Obviously causing lots of misunderstanding within those who didn't read it)

[WHS]

This notice was added only several hours after ARR went on steam. (Obviously causing lots of misunderstanding within those who didn't read it)

That's because it is the windows version they are selling. Only way to get access to the 30 days on the ps3 would be to buy a copy of the game for ps3.

[Raynar]

This notice was added only several hours after ARR went on steam. (Obviously causing lots of misunderstanding within those who didn't read it)

Ah ok. Cause I was like srsly its like right there.. lol
But glad you cleared that up.

[Elspath]

I hate they dont give us old players a option to move are games on steam. Steam wont recognize anything i do or games i like connected to FFXIV because i dont own it (according to them)

I COULD proble buy a copy and just log in with my normal account information. But thats just wasting money and somehow i think they want that -_-

[Yukagama]

yes I want to know this to!

[necrosis]

For those out there mad that you can not 'move' your retail copy of FFXIV:ARR to steam should know there is only ONE game I know of that allowed you to do this. Unreal Tournament 3.

[ironmoney]

a lot of the f2p games used the same existing acct prior to steam. like all of those nexon games, perfect world games, and hawken just to name a few.

since nexon games are free, they just redownload it and login using their existing acct. no problem. highly unlikely ffxiv will be a free download on steam.

when hawken went to steam, they emailed all their existing players a steam key to unlock it on steam for free (new steam players have to buy in beta now).

its easier for them since they have a smaller player base being in beta. but thats an option. would SE put in work to send out millions of steam unlock keys across the world and regions? sounds troublesome. maybe setup a form online to request your steam key, so players who want it, may get it.

besides these theories the best option would just be to wait for the expansion as mentioned earlier

[ReplicaX]

For those out there mad that you can not 'move' your retail copy of FFXIV:ARR to steam should know there is only ONE game I know of that allowed you to do this. Unreal Tournament 3.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_...7480-wusf-3601

Keep on thinking that, I've converted many on this list from retail to steam.

I will pay for the convenience, regardless. However, why argue to begin with and give false info/assume.

[Noshpan]

Don't forget both EverQuests are also available on Steam, as is LotRO & DDO. I'm sure there are plenty of other MMOs that are available to be launched from the Steam client. I used to sub to EverQuest II a couple of years before the launcher was added to Steam, and I had an EQ trial account from way back when. So, should I ever get the itch to play those again I don't have to use SOE's terrible launcher. So them saying that it can't be done is a bit inaccurate on their part.