Quote Originally Posted by Raist View Post
Notice how your Mog Station has buttons for adding console licenses? The licenses are platform specific--you can't use a console key to activate a PC install. You have to have a key that is for the specific platform. Notice you have no button to add a Windows specific key--it is because you applied a Steam key. On my Mog Station I have the reverse--a Windows key was applied so there is no option to add a Steam key.

Just like with the consoles, the keys for Steam and Windows are specific to their platforms--however they did not add the option to register them separately like you can with the consoles. So you can't add BOTH a Steam and a Windows key to the same account--but you CAN add both a PS3 and a PS4 license if you wanted, as they have the options listed separately. And here's the rub---you MUST buy the expansion to match your existing license. So, if you installed a Steam license you have to buy the Steam expansion (same goes for Windows)--as you have to be applying keys along the same platform path, and Windows and Steam are considered their own individual platforms when it comes to their license keys even though they are both PC versions of the game.

In the past when they put XI on Steam, this was not the case. A Steam license was a PC license for the purpose of registering the client. So long as you had a valid PC's license bound to your SE account, you could access the XI content across both PC platforms--whether it was a Steam key or Windows. With XIV--they locked the license key to each specific platform path: PS3, PS4, Steam, PC. The problem is they have not provided the option to register each of them all independently. You can do a PS3, a PS4, and then only ONE of the two computer options--Steam or Windows, but not both.
And see until the expansion comes out we don't know what codes go where. What I will do is <Sigh> buy an extra Heavensword and try to install it. It looks like it still maybe the case where (on S.E. side) that The only thing that matters is that your on a Windows version.

Here is the you tube and let me know where I made a mistake please.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQaiZbCQO7k