In fact, they don’t even sell the earlier expansions on their own.
Unlike some games, expansions in FFXIV are linear, meaning you cannot play them out of order, or play any of them without completing the base game first.īecause they’re linear, Square Enix will always include all previous expansions for free when you purchase the most recent one. There are currently three expansions: Heavensward, Stormblood, and Shadowbringers which raise the level cap to 60, 70, and 80 respectively, progress the main story, and offer lots of other content including more races and jobs (what this game calls ‘classes’ in some other games).
Sometimes people ask this, so it is worth noting that your subscription time ticks down in real life time, not in time spent playing the game! Additionally, the game will be down for ~24h maintenance approximately once every 3 months for major patches, so plan your playtime accordingly! Do I Have to Buy Every Expansion? There are 2 types of subscription: Entry (which allows you to create up to 8 characters, all on separate worlds) and Standard (which allows you to create up to 40 characters, with up to 8 on a single world).Įntry subscriptions must be purchased each month, while for Standard subscriptions you can choose to be billed monthly, or every 3 months (for a small discount), or every 6 months (for a bigger discount, at which point it is the same price as the Entry subscription). After those 30 days you will have to pay the subscription fee to continue playing. Registering the base game either through Starter Edition or the Complete Edition will come with 30 days of play time included.
Unless there’s a sale involved, there is no cost saving advanatage to doing so, it’s just more convenient than making two purchases. If you know you’re going to buy the expansions anyway, you could alternatively buy the Complete Edition, which bundles the Starter Edition with all current expansions.
As of patch 5.3, the Starter Edition includes the original launch (A Realm Reborn) up to level 50 as well as the first expansion, Heavensward, and its content up to level 60.
More details on that in a bit.įor purchasing the game, the payment model requires you to buy the base game, also referred to as the Starter Edition.
There is also a free trial with no time limit, but which has a level cap and some social restrictions. FFXIV) is a subscription-based MMORPG, which means it requires a purchase of the base game, the expansion pack, and a subscription. What’s the Payment Model?įinal Fantasy XIV Online (a.k.a. If you’re looking to try it out for yourself, here’s what you need to know about buying the game, which is available on PS4, PC, and Mac. Its most recent expansion, ‘Shadowbringers’, received a lot of praise in particular and attracted tons of new players, showing that it’s never too late to start playing.
Minor updates will still be made to address bugs and other issues, and when Square Enix finally loses interest, fan servers will be sure to keep the PC version up and running for a long time.A highly popular MMORPG, Final Fantasy XIV Online continues to release new features and content every few months, and will be around for years to come. Sounds like a perfect opportunity to waste a lot of time just losing yourself in a beautiful fantasy world. The Windows version of the game will be kept alive for anybody who wants to take a crack at a plot 13 years in the making. We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to those who have enjoyed Final Fantasy 11 on these platforms and to those who have assisted us in bringing Vana’diel to you. Square Enix thanked its fans for allowing it to stay up as long as it has.
November’s release will be the console version’s last major update and the last overall for the game’s 13 year run. Over the course of the game’s final year, the last chapter of its long, winding plot will be made available in three pieces coming out in May, August and November. Final Fantasy XI will be shutting down its servers for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 exactly one year from now in March 2016. Which one do you want first, the mediocre? Just a warning, neither is the free-to-play option that we were hoping for. Well, we have news from Square Enix’s press conference regarding the future of Final Fantasy XI.