Welp, the Xbox version is dead in the water. What were they thinking?

[SDaemon]

This isn't an xbox live membership they are asking for it's gamepass which is the service that allows you to play a library of titles for a subscription fee. The xbox equivalent of + is Xbox Live Gold.

Xbox Live Gold doesn't exist anymore. It was rebranded/replaced as Xbox Game Pass Core at the same price point back in September, with Game Pass Ultimate being the higher cost, more encompassing option. FFXIV on the Xbox will require either Core or Ultimate.

[SieyaM]

Xbox Live Gold doesn't exist anymore. It was rebranded/replaced as Xbox Game Pass Core at the same price point back in September, with Game Pass Ultimate being the higher cost, more encompassing option. FFXIV on the Xbox will require either Core or Ultimate.

Which is now confusing me because I am being charged for game pass core for a year and also charged monthly for another kind of game pass for the console. Why name your subscription service the same as another service.

[SDaemon]

Which is now confusing me because I am being charged for game pass core for a year and also charged monthly for another kind of game pass for the console. Why name your subscription service the same as another service.

Do you have Game Pass for the PC? Game Pass Core and PC Game Pass are 2 different things as well, one exclusive to console and one to PC. Whereas Game Pass Ultimate covers both.

[SieyaM]

Do you have Game Pass for the PC? Game Pass Core and PC Game Pass are 2 different things as well, one exclusive to console and one to PC. Whereas Game Pass Ultimate covers both.

I do not have the PC version, or ultimate. I was charged just a few weeks ago for the yearly membership to whatever gold is being called now, and then also a monthy fee for the game pass library.

[Kakure]

I was looking forward to playing FFXIV in either the living room or the bedroom without having to move my PS. I was even planning to swap and play primarily on the Xbox if the Xbox version didn't display my gamer tag to strangers the way the PS version does.

So much for that.

[Stormpeaks]

I was looking forward to playing FFXIV in either the living room or the bedroom without having to move my PS. I was even planning to swap and play primarily on the Xbox if the Xbox version didn't display my gamer tag to strangers the way the PS version does.

So much for that.

Maybe just play on PC. /shrug

[LinkPK]

I've invested more than 500 hours on this game on Xbox already. I was so happy I could finally play with my brother, who has been playing for 10 years now. I just realized that as an Xbox player, I have to pay the whole game and all its expansions+monthly game pass+FFXIV monthly subscription.

What the actual hell?

I'm sorry because I really enjoy and love the game but I'm gonna have to abandon it, because I refuse to pay three times to play one 10 year old game. 30€ a month for a game? Nah, I'm sorry greedysoft.
I thought I only needed GamePass to play it, as it happened somehow on the PlayStation: You only had to pay the FFXIV sub to play it. No PSPlus required.

Now Microsoft wants me to pay BOTH things? Hell no. I'm struggling enough in life to pay that much money to play a videogame.
Don't get me wrong, I love Final Fantasy since I was a kid, but I'd rather pay my bills and eat than playing a game.

It pains me because I've been enjoying it so much so far as you can see on my profile. Almost every character at max level (lvl 70 with the cap, of course), but this is goodbye.
I've created an FC and it leveled up a lot. Daily EXP boosts and different for the weekends. Got a nice housing at The Goblet. Duties and raids together as a party. Made really good friends along the way. All goes to the bin.

I hope, I really hope devs read this and help us out, but I doubt it.

Cheers,

Link

[LianaThorne]

This is a Microsoft problem rather than a Square problem. Ya'll should be mass reaching out to them rather than bringing it up here because it's not anything Square has much say in as far as Microsoft's subscription services. I highly doubt that Square can just demand Microsoft treat them differently than everyone else and it's probably not feasible to just shut down the Xbox side of things after how much they've paid to even have it.

So yeah, unfortunately, yall got 3 options:
1. Pay
2. Complain to Microsoft
3. Swap to PS or PC

[LinkPK]

This is a Microsoft problem rather than a Square problem. Ya'll should be mass reaching out to them rather than bringing it up here because it's not anything Square has much say in as far as Microsoft's subscription services. I highly doubt that Square can just demand Microsoft treat them differently than everyone else and it's probably not feasible to just shut down the Xbox side of things after how much they've paid to even have it.

So yeah, unfortunately, yall got 3 options:
1. Pay
2. Complain to Microsoft
3. Swap to PS or PC

This is a problem that affects all the community.

I've complained everywhere I could, because the more, the better, and the more plausible it becomes to find a solution to this issue.
Square could definitely reach out to Microsoft in order to address these complaints.

I really don't want to abandon this community but Microsoft is going too far with greed.

[LianaThorne]

This is a problem that affects all the community.

I've complained everywhere I could, because the more, the better, and the more plausible it becomes to find a solution to this issue.
Square could definitely reach out to Microsoft in order to address these complaints.

I really don't want to abandon this community but Microsoft is going too far with greed.

Square ignores this forum like a plague because we dont congest our threads to megathreads, you'd have better luck translating it to JP and posting it on theirs. If JP backs this up it'll definitely reach them much faster.

I'm aware it's a community problem but that doesn't mean Square has any bend over Microsoft lol. Unless the Xbox side of things is blowing Microsoft out of the water financially, what incentive do they have to fix anything that other games are already using? They're most likely locked into a contract as well so not sure how easily they can go about demanding changes while bound to that.

I'm an Xbox user for games outside of 14 but this is personally the first time I've seen such an uproar over how Microsoft does their subscription services. Maybe I've just been under a rock but I'm curious why that is if true.