PETITION: Regarding FINAL FANTASY XIV Steam Version (Mar. 8)

[SenorPatty]

Signing and signed.

Direct startup should be a choice for players if steam doesn't work, like it has proved before with ESO. I hope they allow us to convert to PC keys cuz this policy is really messed up and it may hurt steam users in the long run.

[Lozza]

If anything, I, and our greater community, almost universally to an individual, all feel that had we the opportunity, we would have all already purchased new, non-Steam editions of the game, just to free ourselves from having to buy all of our expansions there forever.

I can't emphasis this enough. Those of us who have stuck with Steam have stuck with it because we've no other choice. We can't put a PC key on an account with a Steam key. I bought the game just after ARR launched. I bought through Steam because I heard about it through Steam when another friend was playing it. I didn't see buying the expacs via Steam that big a deal - though I wouldn't say I liked it either. But this is... I personally experienced the mess of ESO doing this exact same thing. Valve doesn't care if users can't log on to the game they paid for because the Valve auth servers are messed up or the connection from the Valve auth servers to the game auth servers are messed up. This change is adding to massive points of failure for Steam users and at this moment we have no way of switching out of Steam - since we can't add PC keys to an account that has Steam keys.

[DragonMom]

Consider me signing this, I got it on steam because it was easier to buy, but installed it off of it because of the terribleness that is steam and its ingame bulkiness...Even if you turn off the ingame overlay, Steam itself adds a bunch onto your games load, and do we have to reinstall it all over again? Or can we do a Blizzard thing and locate it in our files like people in 2019?

[Nanopizza]

Consider it signed from me.

[Spiralgaia]

Consider it signed. I really do not miss having to open up Steam each time just for the sake of logging in, not to mention having to reinstall the game AGAIN if this goes through, since I recently had to upgrade my PC.

[Hashalt]

Signed!

At the very least let me purchase a second PC key that is rid of steam. I would be happy to pay for this.

[Sorimachi87]

Signed.

Please let us have the possibility to activate a windows ff14 key on our account without having to start from square one again.
I'd happily buy the whole stuff again.
The whole Elder Scrolls Online Issues really scared me now.

[Aechmea]

Yeah, I'm not happy either. I've seen what happened to ESO players. Heck, I'd buy a second non-Steam PC license, but I can't.

[Faeriah]

Signed! I've had a lot of problems using Steam to start the game so I stopped using it. :/

[Ayer2015]

Seeing as launching through Steam is how I always run the game anyway, and have never had an issue, I dont see the issue here.