FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Purchase Questions

[Nix]

Soooooooooo suuuuper excited. OMG 3 months. Hurry up already Beta 3 O.o

For sure, myself and a lot of my friends irl are completely stoked for ARR!

[Valandil]

Not sure if this is full complaint worthy, and it is certainly not an inquiry, but definitely an opinion.

I think it is absurd that 1.0 players who wish to invest in the Collector's Edition of 2.0 will be unable to upgrade their account with such a package. Being that we are perhaps your most devoted fan, I don't think it is unreasonable that purchasing the full collector's edition, with the physical items included, would allow us to make the transition from 1.0 to 2.0. The notion that "the registration code for the Windows collector's edition cannot be used with a pre-existing Windows service account," that is, the accounts of players who have supported FFXIV through its overhaul, is utterly ridiculous.

What I propose is a combination of the digital upgrade and the collector's edition: allow 1.0 players to upgrade digitally and purchase the physical items as well. As is, we can purchase the following: the Windows CE, which gives us physical CE items with no in-game upgrade; the digital upgrade, which gives us the in-game upgrade but no physical items; and the PS3 CE, which gives us physical items and a digital upgrade, but we may not own PS3s or wish to play on them, especially after possibly investing in superior PCs to play FFXIV on in the first place. Hopefully this post hasn't been too confusing.

In short, there should be a package which includes all of the Collector's Edition items (both in-game and IRL) and the upgrade from 1.0 to 2.0 for 1.0 players.

[Rizon]

I guess I will add to the confusion factor. I am a Ver 1.0 owner so according to Yoshida I will get a 2 week "Welcome Back" period. I also ordered the PS3 CE which has a free 30 day trial period in it. So if I wait til the end of the 2 week "Welcome Back" and then register my PS3 version and link it to my current account do I get an additional 30 day free trial period added on for a total of about 7 weeks of free play time?

[Rizon]

SE has bent over backwards to recognize the players who purchased Ver1.0 with benefits available in ARR. I applaud them for that. Not many companies would go to lengths that they did following a failed release. Having said that i appears that they made 1 major mistake that is causing heartburn among the populace. They did not make arraignments to allow players with existing accounts to purchase the physical CE for windows and link it to their existing account. Instead they must also buy the Digital Upgrade and an additional cost to them. This pretty much negates the benefit of the free client download that they were to receive. SE has 3 months to rectify this error and I strongly suggest that they do so before the good will that they have built up with the player base dissipates and bad word of mouth permeates the gaming community.

[Shidomido]

Hi, I'm waiting for the physical version Collector's Edition in the Store EU ( https://store.eu.square-enix.com/emea_europe/ ) . You can make sure that when they are added to the physical versions will also include pre-order codes?

[AlaulaTheGreat]

Atleast for myself, I found a plan of action to get my physical items, get my CE, and get a friend to play. Right now I am legacy SE, I buy the 69.99 CE for windows, all I want is the physical items in the CE. So I sell my friend my Collector edition registration for 29.99 (The same price he would have paid for the standard edition.) And then I upgrade my account to collector edition status. Now here is my assumption, the pre-order registration code is a separate entity from the actual game so I just pocket the pre-order registration code as well.

So if I'm right, I get the CE physical items for 39.99 (Minus the 29.99 I sell the actual game registration/disc to my friend.), I get the CE game for a 19.99 upgrade, and I get the pre-order bonus as well. I win out by paying 10 bucks less for the CE. I hope at the very least.

I will be screwed however if the pre-order code is attached to the game registration itself. However I never actually seen that happen, its usually a "Well here is your pre-order code in this handy email" kind of thing.

[JillyBean]

I guess I will add to the confusion factor. I am a Ver 1.0 owner so according to Yoshida I will get a 2 week "Welcome Back" period. I also ordered the PS3 CE which has a free 30 day trial period in it. So if I wait til the end of the 2 week "Welcome Back" and then register my PS3 version and link it to my current account do I get an additional 30 day free trial period added on for a total of about 7 weeks of free play time?

I *think* 30 day free trials are on new accounts only. So if you link your PS3 to your existing 1.0 char account (which is what I am doing also, for all the reasons as discussed in these threads) you would not get those 30 days free.

As someone said before.... idc about getting stuff free, I just wann play already! !

[Hestern_Nestern]

Is anyone else getting an error when trying to purchase any of the items for A Realm Reborn? At present, I am attempting a purchase of the standard edition of the PS3 game as well as the CE edition of the PC, with plans to later upgrade my current account to CE status (when this option becomes available). I am hoping that, if I visit a friend who has a PS3 and make a proper PSN account, then use the PS3 code for that, that it won't matter that I actually don't own that PS3 and am only making a PSN account to use this code.

Anyway, the point being that whenever I attempt the purchase, I get an error message which says:

ERROR:

Your data was not saved. Please try again later. We apologize for this inconvenience.

Error Number: SYS_000006

[Rabntah]

Hello I want to preorder a Collector's Edition on Europe to get the bonus items from preorder and the collector's edition items on my actual 1.0 account.

The problem I find is that when I go to your store, https://store.eu.square-enix.com/emea_europe/ I only find PC Download option.

I already have a 1.0 Legacy Account, not collector, and I don't want to preorder a Digital Copy, I want to preorder PS3 Collector's Edition with the artwork, OST, cards and the bonus items to link to my actual PC version cause I won't play on PC.

I want to preorder a PS3 but is not listed on the european store, but it's on JP and NA. Why I can't?

[Mjollnir]

Here's a couple more questions I couldn't find answers to.

I have two friends (a couple) who live together and own a PS3 and a PC. Neither have had any FFXIV 1.0 experience before. They both want to play ARR and be able to play with each other. However, the PC is a laptop and suitable therefore for gaming out and about; the PS3 is plugged in to the TV and will be the preferred way of playing. This means that both of them will want to play on both systems at some point when the other isn't around.

Now with FFXI, you could buy one XBox360 copy and one PC copy, use the codes on separate accounts, but still have both accounts play on both systems (I did this with my g/f of the time back in '06). I'm to understand that this is no longer possible from the responses so far.

Basically my friends here have to buy two copies of the Windows and two copies of the PS3 version. That bites, but I can understand it to a degree - you're paying for the license to play on a given system each time, rather than access to the game. It's a shame you're not keeping the cross-platform model that was present in FFXI, but meh.

Given this scenario, I have two questions that I'd like an answer on.

1) Having bought two copies of the game each, registered to separate PSN/S-E/FFXIV Service Accounts, does applying the codes from both PC and PS3 versions grant 60 days of access without subscription, rather than the 30? This makes the situation £15.38 more attractive for the pair of them, for a start.

2) And this one, I ask for not just them, but myself and all other multi-platform users: When expansions are released, will we be expected to purchase fully both the PS3 and the PC versions, or is the purchase of the basic edition the only 'system unlock' that is required? I understand that you probably haven't looked too much into expansion distribution yet, but what I'm really trying to ascertain is if the 'system unlock' is a one-time only thing, or will rather be keyed to each expansion.