Quote Originally Posted by KRIPTICON View Post
Greetings to all of you,

After roughly 2 years of arguing with my stepson, I finally got him to take a break from WoW and try FFXIV so I am going to buy him the game and some sub time. However, something occurred to me and I wanted to ask around about it. I remember not too long ago that people who had the Steam version of the game were having some sort of an issue. I don't remember what it was, I just remember players being really upset about it. I play on console so it wasn't affecting me at the time but I need a PC copy of the game. I was wondering if the problem people were having had been sorted out or should I just buy from someone other than Steam?

Thanks in advance adventurers!
Steam broadly had some differences in release scheduling for collectors content (but I believe that as of ShB, that no longer is the case).

The bigger issue is that players who purchased teh game through steam have to launch the game through steam. Meaning, if you have a straight PC version of it with its own launcher, you will not be able to log into your account if hte account was purchased through steam. This works in reverse too. There is no difference in the gameplay or anything, its strictly a matter of where you can launch the game from. (Simple work around, btw, for this is if you have the PC files already on your computer to copy/paste them into the appropriate steam folder, and vice versa if need be. There are youtube videos on this. Catch is you will technically hvae to copies of the game on your computer so youre just eating up HD space, but in the age of terabyte drives, probably not an issue).