FF14 subscription + ff11 subscription

[Dsherman]

SE did have a promotion announced that would allow a discount of $5.95 USD a month on each POL (FFXI) Account that was linked to a SE account with a FFXIV Service account. Both accounts (POL and FFXIV) had to be in a status of being paid accounts. It was a 1 to 1 pairing of accounts (POL and FFXIV) within the same SE account.

However, it was a very limited promotion in that the discount would only be given for at most 3 months. The promotion was simply scheduled to end after that.

In the months that the discount was going to be given to the FFXI account, the FFXIV account had to be in paid status on the 26th of the previous month, which meant that people that bought the standard edition would miss the first month since the standard edition didn't get released until the 30th of September 2010 (and thus, such an account would not have been in paid status yet on the 26th of October).

SE announced an extension of this discount period after the first two free play extensions, but the result would have been similar to the original provided FFXIV had actually started charging for subscriptions after those first 2 extensions. It still would have only been 2 or 3 months at most of FFXI discounts.. a maximum total of $17.85 USD per POL account.

Of course what really happened was the announcement of indefinite free play (which is only now about to come to an end). And because of that, the discounts were never given because no one has ever paid a FFXIV subscription fee (yet).

Once I realized the limited amount of this discount of $17.85 USD per POL account max, I sort of decided it was not a very good deal.

There has been no further word from SE if they will still apply this discount at all once paid subscriptions begin for FFXIV.

[Answa]

SE did have a promotion announced that would allow a discount of $5.95 USD a month on each POL (FFXI) Account that was linked to a SE account with a FFXIV Service account. Both accounts (POL and FFXIV) had to be in a status of being paid accounts. It was a 1 to 1 pairing of accounts (POL and FFXIV) within the same SE account.

However, it was a very limited promotion in that the discount would only be given for at most 3 months. The promotion was simply scheduled to end after that.

In the months that the discount was going to be given to the FFXI account, the FFXIV account had to be in paid status on the 26th of the previous month, which meant that people that bought the standard edition would miss the first month since the standard edition didn't get released until the 30th of September 2010 (and thus, such an account would not have been in paid status yet on the 26th of October).

SE announced an extension of this discount period after the first two free play extensions, but the result would have been similar to the original provided FFXIV had actually started charging for subscriptions after those first 2 extensions. It still would have only been 2 or 3 months at most of FFXI discounts.. a maximum total of $17.85 USD per POL account.

Of course what really happened was the announcement of indefinite free play (which is only now about to come to an end). And because of that, the discounts were never given because no one has ever paid a FFXIV subscription fee (yet).

Once I realized the limited amount of this discount of $17.85 USD per POL account max, I sort of decided it was not a very good deal.

There has been no further word from SE if they will still apply this discount at all once paid subscriptions begin for FFXIV.

From what I read about this when it was announced, it was an indefinite bonus, but had a limited amount of time to sign up on it (January 2011). That's three months between release and January.

[Wynn]

From what I read about this when it was announced, it was an indefinite bonus, but had a limited amount of time to sign up on it (January 2011). That's three months between release and January.

It wasn't permanent. It was for three months. The only thing required was that you linked an active XI account to the same username in their management system that you had an XIV account on. After that time, my XI sub went back to normal price.

[Zagorn]

Can a Dev clarify this? As for the amount.... any reduction should be welcomed but again this could make or break whether a ton of people still play ff14.

[Dsherman]

From what I read about this when it was announced, it was an indefinite bonus, but had a limited amount of time to sign up on it (January 2011). That's three months between release and January.

The wording and format of the initial announcement about this specific promotion was confusing and at first I did think the same as you.. that January 2011 was a deadline to sign up for it instead of the date the whole promotion would end.

However, it became much more obvious in the announcement about extending this promotion to March 2011 that it was a limited promotion that would simply end in March 2011. It wasn't a deadline to sign up for it... .it was the end of the promotion entirely. FFXI rates would have reverted back to original rates the month after the end of the promotion ($12.95 a month for one character). There was never going to be a permanent discount under that promotion.

If this promotion is still going to be applied once subscription payments for FFXIV begin, SE is going to have to adjust it a bit since FFXI billing is no longer done on a calendar month basis except for the hold outs that still haven't transferred their POL billing to SE account billing.