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    Quote Originally Posted by Imoen View Post
    As someone else said it was not like this for XI, as long as you had an account it didn't matter which platform you were on as long as you had an install.

    On topic, this game charges per platform. It has been like this for a long time.
    This is true, BUT you still had to purchase the software for the system. I didn't get a free copy for my Xbox 360 simply because I played the game on PS2.

    I really, really hope they bring back the free upgrade from PS3 to PS4 at some point. I find it silly that they ended it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra View Post
    Shame they didn't keep the free PS3 to PS4 upgrade in effect. It's the same platform and an upgraded console shouldn't require buying a new game. I don't think that is required when people update their PC's.
    PS3 and PS4 aren't really the same platform.
    Or it should be no problem to play the PS3 disk of FF X in the PS4 instead of buying the game again for the PS4.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra View Post
    Shame they didn't keep the free PS3 to PS4 upgrade in effect. It's the same platform and an upgraded console shouldn't require buying a new game. I don't think that is required when people update their PC's.
    The difference between PS3 and PS4 is like Night and day, take it from someone who has played on all 3 platforms, you will never even think of ps3 again going to PS4, its very near in performance to PC version.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Doki View Post
    Invest in a solid state drive for your ps3. Alternately invest in one of PS4 or you will not be impressed with load time difference.
    I'm actually moving to a pc from my Ps4 for FFXIV. The load times are better than ps3 but on ps4 compared to a pc is a huge difference. My bf has a pc and his load time is about 8 secs or less and it takes around 20 to 30 seconds for me to load in. Depending on if it's primetime it can take 1 min or more. Also the ps4 still struggles with heating issues due to having to constantly render players. I play with 2 fans on my Ps4 in a open ventilated area just so the ps4 fans do not sound extremely loud. Ps4 still suffers when a lot of players are attacking a enemy. Players and the enemy can disappear and then suddenly reappear.
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    Last edited by AureliusDraconium; 12-23-2015 at 01:10 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AnaviAnael View Post
    This is true, BUT you still had to purchase the software for the system. I didn't get a free copy for my Xbox 360 simply because I played the game on PS2.

    I really, really hope they bring back the free upgrade from PS3 to PS4 at some point. I find it silly that they ended it.
    No actually you didn't, if I had bought a PS2 version at one point, and my buddy had PC, I could use his disks if I wanted to install it on my PC and play, never having to buy it myself. Likewise, if I owned the game and all its expansions for PC, and I spent the night at my buddies house that had a PS2 with everything installed already, I could just log in and play. Again, as long as you could get access to the installs, you could play on PC or PS2, I can't speak for xbox, but I do know you could do this with PC and PS2.

    In XIV, they make you register each platform key to your account. ARR (PC) ARR(PS3) ARR(PS4) -- XI didn't do that, all that mattered is if you had XI and the expansions linked, the account didn't care what you were playing on.

    With that said, despite knowing you could do that, I still purchased my copies on multiple platforms, for the plain and simple fact that I like having physical copies of my own.

    On topic, I am more annoyed with Hotbars and gearsets not being saved to the server so that I can more seamlessly jump between my PC or PS4 than I am with having to register each key to my account.
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    Last edited by Imoen; 12-23-2015 at 05:27 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Imoen View Post
    No actually you didn't, if I had bought a PS2 version at one point, and my buddy had PC, I could use his disks if I wanted to install it on my PC and play, never having to buy it myself.
    I think we seem to be misreading each other lol. What I meant was if you owned a copy for say PS2 that didn't automatically entitle you to copies for PC or Xbox. Yes, you could still play on a friend's PC if they had a previous install of the game. The way some of you guys were wording it made it sound like you were saying that you purchased the game once and could get the software for any system without purchase (which is false unless, like you said, you used a friend's discs).

    And I agree about the hotbars. There should be an option to have them saved on the server, kind of like what they did in XI.
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    You also needed to have the most recent game disk in the console in order to load XI, much like you do for XIV.

    So basically, you had a blanket license to load the game on any system, but the only one that also came with the software for free was the PC version. What we recommended that people do when the Xbox versions became rare was purchase a PC license, then grab a set of used Xbox discs to install and actually run the game. A new version of Xbox ToAU collection was selling for $300 on Amazon at one point - you could get a set of used disks for $20 and a PC license for $20, much less expensive.

    But you did still have to have both A license and A copy of of the game for that console, through one means or another.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AnaviAnael View Post
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    Hence the clarification. You could play on any system after linking your account, you were NOT able to get free disk from Best Buy for a different platform. lol

    Quote Originally Posted by Catwho View Post
    You also needed to have the most recent game disk in the console in order to load XI, much like you do for XIV.
    Oh weird xbox required the disc? XIV you don't need the disk though. Once it is installed you are groovy.
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    Last edited by Imoen; 12-24-2015 at 03:46 AM.
    Me: "Aww man I'm clicking all the wrong buttons tonight!"
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