Linear has been going on like this for a while, but doesn't seem to want to understand what's happening here. presumably the 'Steam-onry' thing will be removed too. you need an EU version for the expansion right? But just like Steam and non-Steam, we play on the same servers/etc.īesides Valve promised that if Steam ever went belly-up, they'd take care of the DRM. Why aren't there similar things about there being four regions of the game? EU/JPN/NA/CN? You buy an EU version. Most of the other games are on Steam are doing exactly this. if you have the base game on Steam, buy the expansion on Steam. Petitions because of the 'uproar' over something that hasn't even started selling. your SE account has a FFXIV that allows the use of the Steam Wallet.įor the upcoming expansion, they've also decided to make it mandatory that 'Steam FFXIV must have Steam Heavensward'. What's happening is that if you used a Steam FFXIV game code to register the game to your SE account at the Mogstation.
just run the ffxivlauncher.exe directly). Don't believe me? Uninstall the Steam client completely. You are not locked into any 'Steam-only' access.