Heavensward Physical Copy & Steam

[Waliel]

Guess that means I won't be playing via Steam anymore. I originally purchased the physical edition, then bought it on Steam and gave the key to someone else so I could install and play via Steam. I guess I could just do that again, but I probably just won't.

There is ABSOLUTELY no reason why we should have to jump through these hoops.

Couldn't you have just added your orifinal copy to steam as non-steam game? Or am I missing something obvious here?

[DracotheDragon]

Couldn't you have just added your orifinal copy to steam as non-steam game? Or am I missing something obvious here?

due to the nature of Steam games thay have a .exe file that has a few differing lines of code so it has to launch though the steam DRM, with that said, if you bought heavenward's disk and tried to install it it wouldn't find the game and it wouldn't recognise the steam one as a game due to its different coding, and DRM protection..

if you added it via non-steam-games it wouldn't allow it to mix with a steam game in case f piracy, and also since it is a expansion it will also have its own code that steam will use to mix it in as a DLC from there store, in short there DRM basicly stops you from adding DLC or a expansion on one of there games UNLESS you get it from them.

[SongJoohee]

due to the nature of Steam games thay have a .exe file that has a few differing lines of code so it has to launch though the steam DRM, with that said, if you bought heavenward's disk and tried to install it it wouldn't find the game and it wouldn't recognise the steam one as a game due to its different coding, and DRM protection..

if you added it via non-steam-games it wouldn't allow it to mix with a steam game in case f piracy, and also since it is a expansion it will also have its own code that steam will use to mix it in as a DLC from there store, in short there DRM basicly stops you from adding DLC or a expansion on one of there games UNLESS you get it from them.

This is not the case with FFXIV. You can open the ARR-Steam Edition without even having Steam open or installed by just finding ffxivboot.exe

[DracotheDragon]

This is not the case with FFXIV. You can open the ARR-Steam Edition without even having Steam open or installed by just finding ffxivboot.exe

you would still need to open steam and use a steam version to allow the expansion to be paired with it, its the way they do it, its a really asinine way to be honest but its how they sell things, but they have shown saying you need to buy the steam version sold for the steam version of ffxiv, so your outta luck if you want the physical edition.

[Waliel]

due to the nature of Steam games thay have a .exe file that has a few differing lines of code so it has to launch though the steam DRM, with that said, if you bought heavenward's disk and tried to install it it wouldn't find the game and it wouldn't recognise the steam one as a game due to its different coding, and DRM protection..

if you added it via non-steam-games it wouldn't allow it to mix with a steam game in case f piracy, and also since it is a expansion it will also have its own code that steam will use to mix it in as a DLC from there store, in short there DRM basicly stops you from adding DLC or a expansion on one of there games UNLESS you get it from them.

I meant as in why did he buy a steam copy to being with when he already had a normal copy. He could've just added the normal one as a non-steam game if he wanted the overlays and such.