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.

[Aphel]

I want to make my own situation difficult by buying the base game for 2 separate platforms.

Then buying the expansion for only 1 platform.

Then coming to the forums and complain that my situation is complicated.


Back to reality, actually in WoW all you have to do is purchase the digital copy once and it's yours forever. You can install it on Mac/PC any time, anywhere. In WoW you've essentially purchased the Account.

This was answered back in 2011 on the WoW forums.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2135954086

[Ghishlain]

I agree with HakuroDK AKA Mr. Burning Passion (I love this name, lol), this is a legitimate answer as generally, I don't think any other MMO has done a cross platform system before.

Airget's example is legitimate on a single platform game. In WoW, you can't change to a job or race that you don't have an expansion for (unless they changed that). Since it's a singular platform, all your service accounts will only be on that one platform anyway.

What happens if you play on two platforms, PC has the expansion, PS4 doesn't. You change to Au Ra on the PC, then boot up the PS4. Does it lock you out saying "You cannot use this character because your platform has not installed Heavensward"?

It is a legitimate question that does require a response.

[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....

[Mission]

I want to make my own situation difficult by buying the base game for 2 separate platforms.

Then buying the expansion for only 1 platform.

Then coming to the forums and complain that my situation is complicated.

That's not my thing..I bought the game on ps4 long after I had it on pc. Because I wanted the comfort of not having to sit at my pc to play.. but that's not to say I wont eventually want to go back to playing on my pc...I just seems an illogical way to handle an expansion that you have cross play on different machines.

It would be one thing..if it was say like ESO is doing where you can't play the same character at any given time on different machines.