Why no Xbox?

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I think their short sightedness in requiring PSN and SE accounts to be linked is also an issue with adding additional service options (xbox, nintendo).

Also PSN is required for basically everything on PS4, I'm not sure why that is even brought up. In order to play Nier and Horizon I just got a little bit ago I had to renew my membership to update my PS4...so I dunno it seems dumb to bring it up since you have to pay for it to use the PS4 to begin with.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. The linkage is simply for license checking and posting in the PSN ID on your search information it has no impact on whether any other game system can be involved with FFXIV, where do you even come up with that idea from?

PSN itself is free, it's required for basic license checking to ensure that the games you buy digitally are correctly licensed. When you buy a PS4, it connects to PSn for things like PS Store downloads and firmware updates, and you pay nothing to sign up on PSN, it's 100% free. On the other hand, PS Plus is not free and I think it is the thing you're thinking of. PS Plus is the equivalent of XBL Gold membership, PS Plus is needed for online play unless a developer does as SE has and provides all the servers and service themselves. You had to pay for PS Plus to play Horizon an Nier, but then neither of them are subscription games, they are free once you buy the game. It's a completely different case. FFXIV is subscription based which you pay to SE. You do in fact pay exactly nothing to Sony in order to play FFXIV, beyond purchasing the console and the royalties from the original game purchase of course.

I wouldn't even be against a private server at this point. Honestly the Xbox server would likely be very small, hypothetically speaking that is, given the game would be released in 4.0 if they did bring it over. But being on a private server would have some benefits, wouldn't have a need for 3rd party chat support, the servers would likely be very community driven, since they wouldn't be able to just jump off to a new server.

Also if we consider them jumping right into a current server chances are Xbox players would likely find a dead server anyway and create a unofficial Xbox server, similar to how Gig is the unofficial raid server, Bal is the unofficial RP server, Fairy tmk is the unofficial lgbt server, and Siren iifc is the reddit server.

Saywhatnow? That makes very little sense. Adding Xbox players to the game and segregating them on private servers would add literally nothing to the game. I can't see why or how you think Xbox players would voluntarily segregate themselves either, the point of adding Xbox would be to allow Xbox gamers to play FFXIV with their friends whatever client their friends use. Private servers negate that.

Your comment about finding dead servers makes me laugh as well, the point of adding more users to an online game is to add life, your comments suggest to me that you'd rather we all segregate into niche servers which then fade and die.