I was given a buddy pass from the original 1.0 CE edition and played the game back then. Back in those days I remember it was only a 30 day trial pass basically. Later I thought I heard it was actually a code no different than a normal box copy. And if that's true, I already own ARR now. On my services page it did have FFXI and FFXIV accounts listed.

Now that EA is upon us, I'm hoping I'm not going to have to buy the game after EA is already over!

Thank you.