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

[Bearded]

This is most unfortunate for those who purchased through Steam. I was going to do the same but read on the forums that once purchased you had to buy all expansions also through Steam and so I decided not to do that as it meant I could not shop around for the best deal.

I'm pretty sure nothing is going to change with regards to this though as it is all down to contracts. Ideally SE should permit people to register a non-steam PC version but I bet Steam made sure that was forbidden in the contract.

[Nixxe]

I'm not really sure how this will affect me overall, but I've had a lot of problems with Steam and Steam products over the years, and had I known back in 2014 that buying a key from them because the DD version was on sale would bind me to them for eternity, I never would have done that. I didn't have a lot of experience with Steam back then though and didn't think any differently of it than buying expansion boxes through Best Buy or Amazon for WoW. I still have Steam, but basically don't do business with them, just play games I already own (and rarely at that). With or without this change, I'd like to be able to just have a normal SE account that isn't locked to Steam (and charging me money for that really isn't appropriate), but if this change proves sufficiently inconvenient or detrimental to my gameplay experience, you may just lose my business entirely.

[Keridwyn]

Signed. Having heard of Steam's auth problems with other MMOs I would like the option to migrate my account to a non-Steam version before problems that will arise from Valves lackluster support do.

Also as a multi-platform user I don't think Valve can force you to pay exclusively through Steam anymore than Sony can.

[Scylia]

Signed for I was unaware that I was locked into Steam until after some months playing the game. I would gladly pay a conversion fee to swap to the standalone version.

[Midareta]

Signed. Just give us the option to purchase a PC key and apply it. I can’t quite fathom why this hasn’t always been an option.

[Aramina]

Good luck with this. You made the decision to buy from a third party platform.... they owe you nothing.

Is it fun to be so edgy, and wrong?

When we purchased through steam it was no different than any other vendor. You bought it and launched it directly from SEs client, no different than if you had bought the game from Target or Walmart or Best Buy or wherever. This will no longer be the case.

[Kalise]

/signed

Heck, I recently tried to see if this was an option when trying to get my pre-order for ShB done because this is something that should be supported anyway. Irregardless of if Steam is deciding to be more invasive.

Given that the issues with having separate PC (Steam) and PC accounts stems from merely issues with STEAM in regards to Expansion purchases, this should be technically possible.

SE, let us cut out the middleman and use our accounts and purchase our expansions directly from YOU. As a one-time offer, let us swap over from PC (Steam) to PC with our accounts!

[Meliphagidae]

Signed! I registered the steam code before I knew how awful this game is on steam, and now I'm stuck with it.

[SixthHero]

Signed. I haven't used Steam to launch FFXIV in years and I'm not about to start. I will absolutely unsub before I am forced into using that resource hog.

[DaMoggen]

Would love to be able to convert to a normal account, having to launch the game through Steam will just add an unnecessary waste of time as i don't even have it running most of the time.