Is this game region-locked?

[Seraguith]

I can't seem to see the Steam store page. I live in SEA.

[Null Moon]

As far as I know, no, there is no region lock.

[Asphe]

Kinda. FFXIV is "region-locked" within the PRC and South Korea but aside from that, no.

It's just not sold via Steam in South East Asia [unless you live in Singapore, which is considered part of the NA region, along with Hong Kong / Macau].

The local distributor for your area seems to not want to sell the game locally / SE doesn't want to support the game officially in your area. Officially, the game's supported in the NA, EU/Oceania and JPN regions only [except for China and Korea. If you get versions for these two countries, they have their own servers and you can't play on the NA/EU/JPN servers].

Just buy it directly from SE [I'd suggest getting the NA version from the USA's storefront] or the boxed versions available locally in your area [3rd party imports... ironically via that same local distributor]. Or check to see if the euro / peso rate is better for you.

Aside from being able to use Vavle's broadcast [which we won't watch] or post reviews [which we couldn't care less about]... what are you missing besides being able to pay via Steam Wallet?

[Seraguith]

Well, that kinda sucks. There are those physical copies being sold here, though I wanted to get it via Steam. Thanks for the response guys.

[PFC Demigo [29th ID]]

Retail. Much more Cheaper than Steam.
AND you can choose EU or NA Game Time Card for Subs payment and will be in Regional Pricing of your Store.
You can also choose NA or EU to creating an account and you can even play on any of the 3 Datacenter locations XD Im from SEA yet I'm playing on an EU server and my Payment is EU Game Time Card.

[Seraguith]

Originally posted by ♋️LunarCainEX🐶:

Retail. Much more Cheaper than Steam.
AND you can choose EU or NA Game Time Card for Subs payment and will be in Regional Pricing of your Store.
You can also choose NA or EU to creating an account and you can even play on any of the 3 Datacenter locations XD Im from SEA yet I'm playing on an EU server and my Payment is EU Game Time Card.

Are there asian servers that let SEA people play in?

[PFC Demigo [29th ID]]

Originally posted by Rinne:

Originally posted by ♋️LunarCainEX🐶:

Retail. Much more Cheaper than Steam.
AND you can choose EU or NA Game Time Card for Subs payment and will be in Regional Pricing of your Store.
You can also choose NA or EU to creating an account and you can even play on any of the 3 Datacenter locations XD Im from SEA yet I'm playing on an EU server and my Payment is EU Game Time Card.

Are there asian servers that let SEA people play in?

JP Tonberry is where almost all the english speakers are if i recall

[Asphe]

Originally posted by Rinne:

Are there asian servers that let SEA people play in?

If you buy either the NA, EU or JPN versions, you can choose to play on a server for any of those regions [NA = San Diego, EU = Frankfurt, JPN = Tokyo. Use arrstatus.com and ping the IP addresses to see the latency].

i.e. you are NOT locked into NA servers because you have an NA account. NA account can play on JPN servers, JPN account can play on EU servers/etc.

Given that you're playing from the PH... you'd probably have the lowest latency to Tokyo BUT the lowest packet loss to San Diego [YMMV]. But most PH players are either on Tonberry [around half are "english-speaking"] or Masamune [about 5-10%]. Tonberry is usually closed for new players but Masamune is almost always open.

Rather than worry about how many people speak engrish on the server... go to the official SE forums... find some friendly Free Companys [aka guild aka clans] and go there instead.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/forums/666-Community

[Null Moon]

Originally posted by ♋️LunarCainEX🐶:

Originally posted by Rinne:

Are there asian servers that let SEA people play in?

JP Tonberry is where almost all the english speakers are if i recall

Isn't Tonberry closed down for new characters due to congestion?

[PFC Demigo [29th ID]]

Originally posted by Null Moon:

Originally posted by ♋️LunarCainEX🐶:

JP Tonberry is where almost all the english speakers are if i recall

Isn't Tonberry closed down for new characters due to congestion?

Yep, because most english users in SEA goes there.
I don't even know where the 2nd location is.
I just went to the EU server and amazingly, im not even lagging. (played since ARR)