Quote Originally Posted by Shougun View Post
If I wasn't clear, it was a joke "sanctions only what is paid for" though they can and used to require large sums of money for any update to their games. Also, I said I believe- it would sound very business savvy to require that it goes through your form of profit - so I believe that you will need to buy the Sony accepted version if you were to use a Sony system. Also Sony has a lot of say on how things are done on their system.
FFXIV is on their system as a whole, but Sony doesn't own SE nor does it own the account system.
It would make sense financially, but from a practicality standpoint it would be bad form to require your customers to buy two sets of the expansion for a single account, since the expansion is functionally (from an account status and server load standpoint. Remember that even if you don't buy the expansion, you still download most or all of the files) no different than the weddings or cash shop items, just much larger.