Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Folanlron said:

The way they do expansions/early access has been that way sense XI, I really doubt it will ever change SE does want too cover it's ass from charge-backs, and I've heard that stripping "keys" from accounts is a real pain for them to do.

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They wouldn't strip keys from the account though, they'd just ban the whole thing. If you do a chargeback, you're getting banned, this is standard in the video game industry and wouldn't raise many issues. If you buy a mount from the mogstation and then chargeback, they don't just remove the mount, they'll ban your whole shit and it'll stay banned until you pay them again.

They'd just need to package it differently. Instead of saying "buy the new 6.0 expansions and get all other expansions with it", they'd say "buy the future proof complete expansion pack thing, get all current expansions with it and get the next 6.0 exansion when it releases". Here you're basically buying the current expansions, and as such no refund would be available since you consume the product instantly once you apply the code. You'd also be charged instantly.

The main issue is they'd need to drop the base price of the current expansions at the same time, otherwise it'd be weird to have like Stormblood at 40bucks and Shadowbringers at 40bucks that also includes Stormblood/HW. And in that way, it means they make less money banking on the hype of people catching up/preparing. Currently they can still sell Stormblood at 40bucks to people who want to catch up before the expansion, and then sell them ShB for another 40 in a few months, while doing it differently they'd only get the 40bucks from ShB. They could put the preorders later to compensate a bit I guess.

I think eventually they'll go like wow probably though. Include HW with ARR in the starter edition when 6.0 is announced kind of thing. It'd probably help with sales too if people don't know the game and after trudging through the goddamn post-ARR, enter Heavensward and see how shit turns out later.

Mind you overall I don't think it's a terrible deal regardless. The 40bucks for SB/HW are well worth it, and yeah it sucks you pay another 40 for ShB in a few months, but value wise ShB is going to blow out most other games you'd buy with 40bucks out of the water anyway. Hell I'd pay 60bucks for expansions without batting an eye, since I know it'll be an easy 100+ hours of game anyway.

Brikker said:

Stormblood was $20 last I saw.

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Na it's 40 still, 20 is when it's on sale. Granted that happens pretty often.

You level by spamming dungeons and/or potd like everything else. No reason to ever do FATEs. And obviously the roulette too. Don't know if you're on a preferred server or not but even without it, it shouldn't take too long for a class to catch up to 50ish with short dungeon queues.

Crone said:

How do you know what to sell or keep? Just take the plunge and spend hours on the auction house seeing what's selling or what's not selling, vendor the rest? My bags are full and don't know what to do with it.

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Yeah mostly you go to a retainer and start listing stuff then hit the button to check the prices and history of the same stuff. Anything that doesn't sell for enough I just vendor(you can vendor right from the retainer too, just right click and it's one of the options). It's pretty annoying but this way you avoid vendoring anything of value. Which probably won't be much of what you're looting while leveling, to be honest.

Started doing some of hte old content I never did before. Some of the HW dungeons are fucking amazeballs. Did the 24man raid Ancient City too which was pretty cool. Gonna try and finish up that chain + unlock some more of the raids this week.

Utnayan said:

So I bought this for PS Pro a while back - subbed - unsubbed. I downloaded it again yesterday because every once in a while I get an MMORPG itch. If I log in with that account, will I be able to play to 35 without having to sub again by default?

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No, the up to 35 thing is only for trial accounts, once you buy the game your account isn't a trial anymore and it basically can only be used with a sub. If you're very low lvl, it might be cheaper to just start a new account, the starter edition is often 10bucks or less and comes with a free month which would cost more than that, but if you want to keep your email or you had a collector or whatever then might as well resub on it.

Janx said:

Started doing some of hte old content I never did before. Some of the HW dungeons are fucking amazeballs. Did the 24man raid Ancient City too which was pretty cool. Gonna try and finish up that chain + unlock some more of the raids this week.

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There's definitely a lot of cool stuff in the old content, and a ton of it. Even the hard modes are cool to see since they're fresh takes on older content and often are very different than their original. Don't sleep on old 8man raids either. Coils of Bahamut is exceptional story wise(it actually has a CGI cutscene even) and Alexander is great for the story too and the music is top tier. For coils you have to do it in PF though since there's no roulette for it, you can solo a bunch of it unsynced too if you want, although turn 9 requires people(technically soloable but is actually challenging content and require to be a summoner with very good current gear).

On playstation you'd need another PSN account to get a different Square enix account on it for trial. Should work then, but if you do end up buying the game that'd mean playing on that separate account, which is kinda annoying.

One trick though, if you haven't bought the PC version, you could use the current Twitch prime promotion to get a free starter edition key for PC, link it to your account and that'll come with a free month, which will work on your playstation too.