Pre-orders: Faith/No Faith, FOMO/No Risk

[TheMightyMollusk]

Also whats Fomo about this?

The earrings and the Zidane minion are preorder only. Previous preorder bonuses have never been made available again, and we all know how SE loves their patterns.

[strawberrycake]

The earrings and the Zidane minion are preorder only. Previous preorder bonuses have never been made available again, and we all know how SE loves their patterns.

Ahhh, I mean if you like your minion collecting fair, and yah the earrings are nice.

[LilimoLimomo]

As it's likely I'm going to have to play on my PS5, I'll be waiting until I can get the full version of DT with everything included. I wonder if I can pre-order that..

With FF14, any time you buy the latest expansion, it comes with all the earlier expansions. I quit after Heavensward and never bought Stormblood. Then I pre-ordered Shadowbringers, and if I'm remembering correctly I immediately got access to Stormblood, even before Shadowbringers was released. This was all on PS4.

So my guess would be that if you pre-order Dawntrail on PS5, you will immediately have access to everything up through Endwalker on PS5. Though I'd recommend doing some due diligence to make sure that's still how it works this time around!

[Iscah]

Then I pre-ordered Shadowbringers, and if I'm remembering correctly I immediately got access to Stormblood, even before Shadowbringers was released. This was all on PS4.

On the other hand, if I'm remembering correctly, previous preorders definitely did not unlock the middle expansions immediately, and people were warned that they would need to wait until the expansion actually came out before they could register it to acquire any of the expansions they received from the purchase.

[DrWho2010]

If you preorder DT and you do not have say ShB or EW you will not be granted access to those expansions until DT actually launches. This will be the case on ANY platform you decide to play on.

[Jojoya]

That was when the store was run by Scalefast. It no longer is. Try pre-ordering anything now on the new storefront. You will be charged immediately.

That is disappointing.

[Souljacker]

I'll get the digital collector's edition, but I have no interest in some cheap model of their idea of the WOL with a couple of swords. It couldn't possibly resonate with me less so they can keep their physical stuff.

Maybe if they depicted one of the major characters from the expansion instead of a male WOL, I'd go for the physical one again. But it hasn't been interesting to me since at least Heavensward.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I might have been tempted by the Midgardsormr statue for Heavensward, but I wasn't playing the game yet, and I'm sure as hell not paying the aftermarket markup for it.

[Reinha]

It was changed back in May 2023. Preorders are now processed immediately as soon as the order is placed.

Huh, good to know. Makes it easier for people whose bank account might run low at times. They can time their purchase as they see fit without worrying about the order getting canceled due to insufficient funds some months later.