Expansion rollout strategy

[Astarotha]

look at it this way, you preorder shb, receive your code for hw/sb, then turn around and cancel your shb order, how is squeenix going to prevent you from turning around and using that free code for 2 expansions (or selling that code online), and if someone truly wanted to abuse that system you could pull what people did with fo76 and preorder/cancel the order multiple times and get a new code each time you did it

so to prevent that loophole from being abused to shit they by necessity have to tie the expansions to your shb code, and unless they figured out a way to release the shb code to you early but not run afoul of consumer protection laws in europe that prevents corporations from making preorders nonrefundable and requires a period of time post launch where you can receive a refund from i dont see a way they could give you early access to hw/sb

btw, be glad they dont make you buy each and every expansion separate like wow used to do (or when they started doing the packaged deals youd rebuy all the expansions plus the base game you already have like 4 different ways)

[linay]

I think part of the problem is the existence of the Starter edition. As soon as Stormblood was launched, SE should just stick to selling the Complete edition, especially now with a non-expiring free trial up to level 35 (which is halfway to current max level). People who are new and just bought the Complete edition would then immediately have up to Stormblood to play. And then once Shadowbringers is released, the Complete edition would include that too moving forward for new people buying after release.

[Seraphor]

I think part of the problem is the existence of the Starter edition. As soon as Stormblood was launched, SE should just stick to selling the Complete edition, especially now with a non-expiring free trial up to level 35 (which is halfway to current max level). People who are new and just bought the Complete edition would then immediately have up to Stormblood to play. And then once Shadowbringers is released, the Complete edition would include that too moving forward for new people buying after release.

This really.
There's really no point in buying the starter edition when the complete edition, on sale or not, offers far better value.