Deeper Steam Integration

[Niwashi]

... and for those who like that sort of thing, track the achievements too (just like the PS4 has) especially as steam has the ability to track achievements with tiers as there are a lot of those in FFXIV.

A minor clarification: The PS4 doesn't track FFXIV's in-game achievements. It has a completely separate list of game trophies we can get, but whereas the game has over two thousand achievements, there are 39 PS4 trophies for it (well, 38 individual ones, plus the platinum for getting all 38) and they don't even match up with a subset of the in-game achievement system.

But I definitely love that they finally added the background downloading of updates. That helped tremendously, and I completely agree it should be extended to the PC, making use of Steam's download manager for Steam players and adding a background process for it to the main game launcher for non-Steam players.

[Kurando]

A minor clarification: The PS4 doesn't track FFXIV's in-game achievements. It has a completely separate list of game trophies we can get, but whereas the game has over two thousand achievements, there are 39 PS4 trophies for it (well, 38 individual ones, plus the platinum for getting all 38) and they don't even match up with a subset of the in-game achievement system.

I wanted to add to this that since Stormblood was released, any achievements earned in-game can appear in a player's PSN wall feed and profile (depending on whether the player chooses to have it public or not). So in a sense we do get tracking for achievements on PSN along with trophies, but we only had the latter before SB, now we have both.