Au Ra and purchasing expansion on 2 systems

[Mission]

If say I race change to an Au Ra on my ps4 after purchasing the expansion. Is that character not playable on my pc if I don't purchase the expansion there?

[HakuroDK]

This is actually a legitimate question. I would genuinely like some info on this.

[Airget]

It's possible if the race is considered part of the expansion perk.

Basically think of it like this. I think WoW is a good place to grab an example from because when it came to expansions the following were locked unless you got the expansion.

-New Zones
-New classes
-New races

So I wouldn't be surprised if potentially if you went to play x character it said "You need Heavensward to play x character" Similar to how it might say "You need Heavensward to go into x zone"

[Mission]

Just seems silly to do that If i "PAID" the money to change my race to that race to lock it behind the double buy expansion pay wall.

On the same vein..If I get a character to 60 will i have to buy the expansion on the other system to play them? As lvl 60 is part of the expansion as well.

[Sasha]

Its almost certain it'd be fine, you have the heavensward zones that are not loaded into the game and can't be seen if you have no expansion on that console/pc, however even those with no expansion can see the new au ras that are made and any heavensward gear.

If you disagree could you name a mmo where new players or their gear do not load to people that haven't bought an expansion. Most likely you can't as all decent mmos have these things added to the base game not to the expansion, the expansion allows you to receive them.

It would take work to lock you out of an au ra character to make it happen, on top of being a terrible decision.

[Mistoltin]

Just seems silly to do that If i "PAID" the money to change my race to that race to lock it behind the double buy expansion pay wall.

On the same vein..If I get a character to 60 will i have to buy the expansion on the other system to play them? As lvl 60 is part of the expansion as well.

You PAID the money to access the expansion and it's content on a singular platform. There is no "double buy expansion pay wall" unless you foolishly choose to play the game on multiple platforms, that is not the intended way to play and it's not Square's fault for not catering to people who make that choice.

[Mission]

You PAID the money to access the expansion and it's content on a singular platform. There is no "double buy expansion pay wall" unless you foolishly choose to play the game on multiple platforms, that is not the intended way to play and it's not Square's fault for not catering to people who make that choice.

They wouldn't allow cross play with the same character if it wasn't one of the intended ways to play....

[Lexia]

They wouldn't allow cross play with the same character if it wasn't one of the intended ways to play....

It cross play not cross buy, cross play is mainly so PC/PS users can play together on the same servers. Do people want to be segregated depending on the platform they choose?

[Mission]

It cross play not cross buy, cross play is mainly so PC/PS users can play together on the same servers. Do people want to be segregated depending on the platform they choose?

If that was the only case you wouldn't be able to link your accounts and play the same character on both platforms..you would have to create a new character on a different account.

[Saccharin]

Just seems silly to do that If i "PAID" the money to change my race to that race to lock it behind the double buy expansion pay wall.

On the same vein..If I get a character to 60 will i have to buy the expansion on the other system to play them? As lvl 60 is part of the expansion as well.

Blame Sony. When you publish a game on a console the manufacturer, in this case Sony, gets a cut. Same for Xbox too.