(PS4) How to Start Game without Disc + ShB Preorder Question

[AltHarmony]

the people I know who have done this just used the code in the game package to register then installed the game through PSN maybe it has to do with how you register it.



does it show the game in your PSN library?
to be clear you have already registered the game using the instructions included right?

It shows under library under "Games" but I'm not sure if it'll disappear once I delete it. I also checked my services under the ps4 Settings > Account Management > Acct Info > Services List and it shows FF XIV under there so I believe the game should be registered correctly if that's what you mean. Tbh I'm not 100% sure anymore if I entered the code when I first set up the game (was about a year ago). I didn't have one in my case when I checked but it could very well be because I used it and then threw it away once it was entered.

[AltHarmony]

I have yet to figure out how people with physical copies are getting to play without the disc. I've tried deleting the game and going to my library and downloading it again but it just takes me to the store purchase page. I've tried looking for the free trial on the store to download and the store keeps saying unavailable, as in there's not free trial listed anywhere. Nothing. Sort of buying a digital copy of ARR I have no idea how people are playing without the disc. ><

Yeah that's my concern too. :< If nothing else it sounds like the cd's are really pointless once you have your main set dl'd so we may as well get shb via digital since cd doesn't save space, it only helps with patch dl times from what I've heard.

[Burningskull]

Yeah that's my concern too. :< If nothing else it sounds like the cd's are really pointless once you have your main set dl'd so we may as well get shb via digital since cd doesn't save space, it only helps with patch dl times from what I've heard.

I have to have my physical version for collection purposes. ><

[xxvaynxx]

You can try is popping in the disk so it begins to install then take out the disk to let it finish installing without the disk.
That might work.

[Jendor]

I switched from the disc edition to digital long time ago. You need to delete the (disc) client and purchase the ARR starter edition at ps-store. All Expansions and CE's you already own will still be available after installing the digital ed.
After getting a new edition, you will also be prompted to make a new FFXIV service account which you probably won't need anyway. Use the old one after finishing the setup.
(at the library, clients which require a disc will have label showing a disc)