Can't enter the game

[Vastolord]

I had thought it was a joke but was just checking. It does work! I did something wrong at first but now it's fine. Thanks for the reply

[Ootarion]

Game not letting me log in, says im not registered when mog station clearly shows I am -.-

[Elijahgrimm]

Same issue as above. It's registered under Steam, I try launching through steam and I get blocked. This is disgusting.

[Ootarion]

I even just tried adding my windows launched version of the game to steam, and it STILL wont let me in......

SE what the heck have you done? You seriously gonna make me reinstall the game through steam? I STARTED LAUNCHING IT WITHOUT STEAM because of an issue I had with steam a few months back, now you are forcing me to play through steam? How dare you.

[Bixillarla]

I even just tried adding my windows launched version of the game to steam, and it STILL wont let me in......

SE what the heck have you done? You seriously gonna make me reinstall the game through steam? I STARTED LAUNCHING IT WITHOUT STEAM because of an issue I had with steam a few months back, now you are forcing me to play through steam? How dare you.

How dare them them make you launch via Steam when you have the Steam version lol. You bought the Steam version launch it via Steam like all your other Steam games.

[tsima]

How dare them them make you launch via Steam when you have the Steam version lol. You bought the Steam version launch it via Steam like all your other Steam games.

OP just said they were having issues with the Steam version.

[Erza_Scarlets]

Pretty simple if you don't want to deal with steam buy the windows version and use it. If you want steam things use steam version installed through steam. Dunno why its such issue.

[Hasrat]

Pretty simple if you don't want to deal with steam buy the windows version and use it. If you want steam things use steam version installed through steam. Dunno why its such issue.

Pretty sure the issue is they're not allowing players to switch now. If Steam version is registered, buying and registering the Windows version does not work. Players are locked to Steam. Something that previously wasn't an issue. Now it is.

[worldofneil]

Pretty simple if you don't want to deal with steam buy the windows version and use it.

Because that's not an option.

Square Enix only let you have one Windows licence. Steam or non-Steam. You cannot add both to the same service account. If SE did allow us to do this then none of us would be having any problems, but they won't let us.

So even though some of us purchased the game on Steam 5 years ago, before Heavensward and before accounts were even distinguished as Steam/non-Steam, we are now forever trapped in this nightmare, because Square Enix refuses to help us and with the updates today is only making things worse.

[Lozza]

Pretty simple if you don't want to deal with steam buy the windows version and use it. If you want steam things use steam version installed through steam. Dunno why its such issue.

The issue is that in doing this we would have to start fresh. You cannot register a Steam copy and a Windows copy on the same game account. The expense of rebuying the games isn't what is bothering players, it's the fact we'd have to start over on new characters do all the story, and buy all the Mogstation gear we earned by doing in game events to get back to where we are now on our current characters. For those of us who bought back in ARR, the steam version was not advertised as being any different, and regular MMO players who had several MMOs via Steam would not have expected them to function any differently. IE Steam launches the client and then has nothing more to do with the game, all your interactions with the game were managed by the devs/publishers of the MMO itself. Steam could dc, crash, etc and none of this would affect the game you were running. This whole Steam integration is a relatively new thing in terms of MMOs on Steam.

I will also point out that other MMOs that have started to do this allow PC and Steam keys to be registered to the same account. So FFXIV is pretty much alone in the field of having 100% exclusive keys for steam and PC versions and not allowing one to be registered against the other.