It say you will get instant items on preorder?!? Well?

[TheMightyMollusk]

Honest question here, for PC players: Why use Steam for this game? Is there any particular benefit to it over just using the game's own launcher? I see people complaining about it fairly regularly, but I play on console, so I have no experience with it (and obviously I'm not gonna buy the whole game again just to find out).

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Honest question here, for PC players: Why use Steam for this game? Is there any particular benefit to it over just using the game's own launcher? I see people complaining about it fairly regularly, but I play on console, so I have no experience with it (and obviously I'm not gonna buy the whole game again just to find out).

If you live in a country with regional pricing, yes, otherwise no.

[Nadda]

it takes a long time I ordered my thing 4:30 pm(ish) and then got the codes at 3:21 am.

Which caused me to go full panic mode.
I should really be used to this after all these years.

[Esmoire]

Anyone else waiting longer than a day?

[GTK0HLK]

Honest question here, for PC players: Why use Steam for this game? Is there any particular benefit to it over just using the game's own launcher? I see people complaining about it fairly regularly, but I play on console, so I have no experience with it (and obviously I'm not gonna buy the whole game again just to find out).

it really just depends on how you are.

Steam Really is only the pain the first time.

Otherwise it's just as I'd imagine SE store/Mogstation to be.

Resubbing?
Log into Mogstation and Click the pop-ups to go to steam, pay, get sent back to mogstation.
Done.

Preorder Day 1? digital edition?
Steam, buy, Done.(waiting for code if it's overloaded. but asides that, no big deal if you don't want the things NOW. or are busy elsewhere. Less of an Issue the later in the day it is.)

It's really not an issue.

The issue is confusion of how the pieces work together the first time.

How it interacts, how do you pay.
If SE did any efforts to improve that Front, then it'd be the same, or better depending on the person. Than the Other Purchase types.

Except for Console which seems to have the most direct, and dedicated Routing. Today.

It's all just preferences in the end. and Most that do enjoy it or stick with it have their own reasons.

(TBH, the last one that comes to mind, is the fact that almost all of it is on steam.)

[Glenfiddich]

it takes a long time I ordered my thing 4:30 pm(ish) and then got the codes at 3:21 am.

Which caused me to go full panic mode.
I should really be used to this after all these years.

Lol. I'm waiting since 2 Days. Soon it will be 3 Days.

Anyone else waiting longer than a day?

Yes. Check my reponse above

[Taliriah]

Lol. I'm waiting since 2 Days. Soon it will be 3 Days.

You know it releases in three months right

[Glenfiddich]

You know it releases in three months right

And what exactly do you want to tell me?
I replied to a Post where a Player was ''going to full panic mode'' because he had to wait a few hours.

[LuciferNacht]

Yoshi literally made an open comment about hoping the website doesn't crash. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2099153074?t=01h07m10s

SE has proven to us expansion after expansion that this is the amount they want to invest in their website and if you STILL bought the game from the SE site, you voted with your wallet that the customer experience you received there was acceptable enough for them to still earn your sale.

If you make it, see you again in 2 years for 8.0s exact same scenario, for now continue being loud, angry and accomplishing nothing because the only mechanism for change at the SE level (separate from FFXIV btw) is to vote with your wallet.

[LianaThorne]

Yoshi literally made an open comment about hoping the website doesn't crash. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2099153074?t=01h07m10s

SE has proven to us expansion after expansion that this is the amount they want to invest in their website and if you STILL bought the game from the SE site, you voted with your wallet that the customer experience you received there was acceptable enough for them to still earn your sale.

If you make it, see you again in 2 years for 8.0s exact same scenario, for now continue being loud, angry and accomplishing nothing because the only mechanism for change at the SE level (separate from FFXIV btw) is to vote with your wallet.

Square just needs to learn how to allocate funds properly more than anything. This could all be smoother if they were actually using all of the profits from 14 to improve the game and the systems surrounding it instead of funneling into other projects or NFTs.