Is the 4 days of free play time In game time?

[The88shrimp]

Does it only track played hours or is it real time from the moment you log in?

[hagare]

safe bet is 4x24. But I don't know for sure

[Acoustic Stoner]

no. once active it's active.

[The88shrimp]

Originally posted by Acoustic Stoner:

no. once active it's active.

Ah that sucks, activated mine now and my friend was planning on activating theirs on Friday, Thanks.

[Ｔｅｎｓｅｎｕｍａ]

It's from the moment you login apparently because I logged in to update the game on the 16th and now I can't even login because it says I need an active sub.
Typical Square. Pretty stupid.

[Unholy Eve]

You got 4 days worth of sub time, it's been 6 days since you first logged in. I fail to understand what the problem is.

[Last Place]

Originally posted by Ｔｅｎｓｅｎｕｍａ:

It's from the moment you login apparently because I logged in to update the game on the 16th and now I can't even login because it says I need an active sub.
Typical Square. Pretty stupid.

It's always worked this way and they tell you every time in the news post. Perhaps you should take some time to learn to read these things.

[Oberon]

Game time has always been real-time.

[Ralf]

It's Eorzea time fam.

[The88shrimp]

Guys it ain't that big of a deal. If I really felt like playing I'd just buy game time.

The reason I was asking specifically is because It was worded as 96 hours game time rather than 4 days from when you log in which just lead me to believe that it could be possible that they're talking about in game hours. That's all.

[Ralf]

Originally posted by The88shrimp:

The reason I was asking specifically is because It was worded as 96 hours game time rather than 4 days from when you log in which just lead me to believe that it could be possible that they're talking about in game hours. That's all.

It says Play Free for up to 4 Days and Up to 96 hours on the picture. It says nowhere gametime, does the sub/gametime card only track played hours or is it real time from the moment you buy/activate it?

Anyway: https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/special/freelogincampaign/
Please note your free play period begins immediately after logging in.
Four days including the day on which users first log in. This period ends on the fourth day at 23:59 (GMT).

Originally posted by Ｔｅｎｓｅｎｕｍａ:

Again, giving squeenix an excuse to get away with it. Pathetic. Not everyone can download the entire game in 2 hours. But go off white knight. Everyone and their mother knows they should let us download/update the game first Then have the game time count. Huh. It's almost like every other MMO ever allows that. This free game time event was a bust because of their bad launcher and it's unfortunate.

What do do want? Should Yoship call you on the phone that hey fam you logged in the launcher and your free time is ending in 4 real world days, please play the game in the next 4 days?The game is like 9years old and you always needed a sub to download/update, I always keep a backup on my HDD so I dont need to download the whole game.

[Sweeney47]

When free game time isn't free enough...

[The88shrimp]

Originally posted by Ralf:

Originally posted by The88shrimp:

The reason I was asking specifically is because It was worded as 96 hours game time rather than 4 days from when you log in which just lead me to believe that it could be possible that they're talking about in game hours. That's all.

It says Play Free for up to 4 Days and Up to 96 hours on the picture. It says nowhere gametime, does the sub/gametime card only track played hours or is it real time from the moment you buy/activate it?

Anyway: https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/special/freelogincampaign/
Please note your free play period begins immediately after logging in.
Four days including the day on which users first log in. This period ends on the fourth day at 23:59 (GMT).

Originally posted by Ｔｅｎｓｅｎｕｍａ:

Again, giving squeenix an excuse to get away with it. Pathetic. Not everyone can download the entire game in 2 hours. But go off white knight. Everyone and their mother knows they should let us download/update the game first Then have the game time count. Huh. It's almost like every other MMO ever allows that. This free game time event was a bust because of their bad launcher and it's unfortunate.

What do do want? Should Yoship call you on the phone that hey fam you logged in the launcher and your free time is ending in 4 real world days, please play the game in the next 4 days?The game is like 9years old and you always needed a sub to download/update, I always keep a backup on my HDD so I dont need to download the whole game.

Yeah I understand I just didn't read deep enough. Like I said, it's not a big deal, it just that others on here are making it one.

[Oberon]

Originally posted by Sweeney47:

When free game time isn't free enough...

Whenever a company gives something out for free, there's always people who demand more, and that the company giving stuff away for free is the one being greedy.

[Dex]

Originally posted by Ｔｅｎｓｅｎｕｍａ:

It's amazing how many defend Square's practices like white knights. Metered connections do exist, they should let us update/download the game Without using any game time at all. But it's Square and they try to get you to waste as much time as they possibly can just to get you to come back and re-sub.
Should only begin to count down when you idk actually open the game, not the launcher.

If you can't afford to play the game, I'm not sure how that's Square's fault, and "defenders" of the game for pointing that out. the ONLY purpose of free trials are to make you want to play more, which means you pay. It obviously worked, you just don't want to pay.

insulting everyone that disagrees with you with generalities doesn't change that fact.

[*Logan*]

Originally posted by Last Place:

Originally posted by Ｔｅｎｓｅｎｕｍａ:

It's from the moment you login apparently because I logged in to update the game on the 16th and now I can't even login because it says I need an active sub.
Typical Square. Pretty stupid.

It's always worked this way and they tell you every time in the news post. Perhaps you should take some time to learn to read these things.

You can't tell people what to do. :}