Can I somewhere download the files without subscription?

[Maddin]

Like its really putting me off, the game has like what 50 Gigabites of data? I have to download it all over again which is no problem, but it will take around 2 days. I wanted to preload it because I will have time in 10 days from now as well as 2 days right now.
But I ain't gonna activate my subscription 10 days before playing just because Square Enix decided "Well if you want to patch, you better have an active subscription" Even after I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bought the game already and played it for months. So don't come at me with "Bandwidth costs money" because its like what 3 cents?

Can I download the game files somewhere else? EU Client.

[Maddin]

Yeah except that I bought the game 2.5 years ago and the time and money I would amount as extra just to buy retail is enough to buy me 1-2 months as sub. In short "you should've bought retail" is a comment I don't really need.

[Fhaerron]

引用自 ♋️LunarCainEX🐶：

引用自 Fhaerron：

Why? Retail is the same launcher, both needs to update the same amount and for that you need to login and have active subscription.

retail gives you all the based game + expansion files (to a certain Patch Version) which saves up time + Data cap limit -.- The only thing to download is just the latest patches.
Which would you rather have?
Download the entire Game + updated Patches in return of eating all your Data and LONG ass Download time
OR
Install the Game from Retail and save up time only downloading the latest patch files.

Steam gives you base version + expansion too.
There literally is no difference in the game files regardles where you download it from, both Steam and retail have the same launcher.

I just looked and the game folder is 29.2GB. Let's say I remove the game and redowload again be it Steam or retail those folders needs to be downloaded again.

I do have fiber connection so I usually don't need to wait long.

[PFC Demigo [29th ID]]

....Fhaerron, Im talking about Physical vs Digital.
Im amaze how you;re not paying attention at how to save downloading time and data cap users....
Just because you have Fiber doesn;t apply to everyone else.

[Fhaerron]

引用自 DI blaster56745：

引用自 Maddin：

Well I can basically start the client. But that client is only around 200 Megabytes. I'm missing all the other game data and it won't let me download without a sub.

you realize theres a free trial version right, which has the majority of the files (it lacks those from expansions, which will be downloaded after you start paying a sub)

IIRC the trail is only ARR, people have said that after they bought the game they had a huge update in the launcher (HW + SB download).

[Fhaerron]

引用自 ♋️LunarCainEX🐶：

....Fhaerron, Im talking about Physical vs Digital.
Im amaze how you;re not paying attention at how to save downloading time and data cap users....

Yeah loads of people say retail to digital SE version.

Actually unless PS4 there's no physical FF XIV here in stores so I would probably have to buy from SE store and prob pay extra for shipping ...
No thanks, it's 2017... don't even have a disc drive anymore (only in my laptop still :p).

That said it's still a bit odd you can't downoad the game without active sub.

Edit: Also I don't have credit card, and on Steam I can use my home banking app thing which is instant so having the pay with Steam wallet sub is a big plus for me.
But yeah this probably doesnt' apply to the OP.

[PFC Demigo [29th ID]]

引用自 Fhaerron：

引用自 ♋️LunarCainEX🐶：

....Fhaerron, Im talking about Physical vs Digital.
Im amaze how you;re not paying attention at how to save downloading time and data cap users....

Yeah loads of people say retail to digital SE version.

Actually unless PS4 there's no physical FF XIV here in stores so I would probably have to buy from SE store and prob pay extra for shipping ...
No thanks, it's 2017... don't even have a disc drive anymore (only in my laptop still :p).

That said it's still a bit odd you can't downoad the game without active sub.

In Eastern Countries, Physical Dominates the market

[Oberon]

引用自 Fhaerron：

Maybe get a faster connection? Must be hell to wait so long, a lot of the games I'm playing are +20Gb, heck doom is even 70Gb!

This is a thing that's going to be a problem for a lot of people down the line. People complain about the amount of time it takes to download 14, and that's actually fairly small compared to most modern releases.

[Fhaerron]

引用自 The Mayor of Murder Town：

引用自 Fhaerron：

Maybe get a faster connection? Must be hell to wait so long, a lot of the games I'm playing are +20Gb, heck doom is even 70Gb!

This is a thing that's going to be a problem for a lot of people down the line. People complain about the amount of time it takes to download 14, and that's actually fairly small compared to most modern releases.

Yeah true, well there was a lot of complaints on Doom at release of it beeing 70GB in size.
ESO on PS4 was about 80Gb IIRC (don't have it installed atm, but it may be that it just reserved 80GB of space on the HDD).

[Maddin]

Well I'm only complaining because I cannot do it like I do it with everything else. Just start the download and play offline games in the meantime, because I need the sub for it.
In the end I will just go and invade my friend next week to drain his 100k for a bit.

Ohh btw. I don't have any kind of disc drive either :D

[Maddin]

Eso had good compression. It only took me around 50 hours to download

[PFC Demigo [29th ID]]

Think I recall ESO was at 60GB (without owning any of the DLC besides the Imperial Edition)

[Fhaerron]

引用自 ♋️LunarCainEX🐶：

引用自 Fhaerron：

Yeah loads of people say retail to digital SE version.

Actually unless PS4 there's no physical FF XIV here in stores so I would probably have to buy from SE store and prob pay extra for shipping ...
No thanks, it's 2017... don't even have a disc drive anymore (only in my laptop still :p).

That said it's still a bit odd you can't downoad the game without active sub.

In Eastern Countries, Physical Dominates the market

In Eastern Countries, consoles dominates the market too. And even in my country all games for consoles are on disks in stores too. The Xbox & PS shelves is full of games and then there is this very tiny spot with PC games and then those are just some tripple A games (games from Blizzard, Bioware, EA, etc).

Like WoW for example, I have physical collectors boxes of all wow games and like last year with Legion too, the game was already downloaded before the launch date anyway so when I went to pick op my box it was just for the CD key actually and well the box since I collect them (Blizzard ones at least).

On my PS4, the majority of games I own on it are physical discs. But on PC, I can't even remember last time I used a disc to install a game and the same goes for some of my friends over there.

[PFC Demigo [29th ID]]

Think for PC Physicals that I got are...
Overwatch Origins, all 3 FFXIV Collectors Edition, Battlefield 1 & Battlefield 3, The Sims 3 Entire Collection and The Sims 4(Base Game Only), Elder Scrolls Online Imperial Edition(because fk the Online download of this), Red Alert 2+Yuri, Star Wars:Galactic Battlegrounds Saga, Guild Wars 2+Expansion, Summoner....Pretty much thats all.
Everything else are console.

[Big Boom Boom]

Tldr, get a trial account and DL client. Copy pasta over the main game folder.

[Maddin]

PC physicals I got are like 5 WoW Classic CD's, one WoW BC DvD, WotlK DvD, Aion DvD's. Thats it, like at least the last eigth years or something I've never bothered with Physicals.