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#1 Jul 27 2015 at 10:30 AM Rating: Good
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I'm sure some will say this is working as planned, but I thought I'd pass this along, FYI. My wife, son, and I have accounts for FFXIV 2. My son is PS4 only, and my wife and I have both PC and PS4 access. When HS came out, I bought PC access for my wife and I (my son rarely plays). When my wife and I play, we're on PC's. We have DD's over level 50. We're not close to the HS access yet (just finished Praetorium). So, my wife decides she'd like to play on the PS4 (big screen, couch, etc.). She does 2 fates near the Cerulium plant and shots "I'm not getting any XP!". I get her logged into a PC and low and behold, she starts earning XP again. So the way it looks, if you're over level 50 and want xp, you need to be on a system that's authorized for HS. Personally, I think the 60 level cap should be a global update, and not part of the upgrade.
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#2 Jul 27 2015 at 10:34 AM Rating: Good
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It's not a bug. If you want the expansion stuff you need the expansion. Simple as that.
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#3 Jul 27 2015 at 11:08 AM Rating: Good
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You need a copy of the expansion for each platform and account you want to play on. So if you want to play HW on the PS4, you'll need a PS4 copy of HW for each account you want to use. It's not a bug, they were very open about this prior to launch.

Also if you've only just finished Praetorium, I would make completion of the story, not leveling up, your priority. You've got quite a lot of ARR story you still need to get through before you even get to HW content.
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#4 Jul 27 2015 at 11:40 AM Rating: Good
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I understand about not having access to the HS content, but I feel a level cap is a different subject. Once prices drop for the PS4 version, I'll get it. We'll just not use the PS4 for FFXIV for now.
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#5 Jul 27 2015 at 12:00 PM Rating: Good
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Linking a level cap increase to an expansion purchase is pretty standard
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#6 Jul 27 2015 at 12:48 PM Rating: Default
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Not a bug, just an extremely odd gate and way to force people to buy the expansion (that's more of a patch really.) Normally it's not odd to see higher level caps with an expansion..it is odd to see not being able to prorgess -at all- unless you buy it. It's been proven you can level well into the high 50s with North Thanalan Fates so them removing exp from 50 dungeons pre-HW was a moot step, as the only thing NOT buying an expansion should bar is new race(s), class(es) and areas/content - A level cap increase is literally a core system update and you shouldn't be forced to buy a patch in order to continue playing essentially.

Yeah you'd want the content and so on, but if some stuff about the expansion doesn't interest you...you still have to buy it as you couldn't even work on 60 till the next update (that may interest you) as you're not allowed to level unless you buy the expansion. So yeah, it's not a bug but it certainly feels like one if you didn't realize the reason you couldn't level is due to not having it registered (since information largely stated you won't be able to gain exp from level 50 ARR dungeons..not completely barred from it.)

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#7 Jul 27 2015 at 4:53 PM Rating: Good
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Archmage Callinon wrote:
Also if you've only just finished Praetorium, I would make completion of the story, not leveling up, your priority. You've got quite a lot of ARR story you still need to get through before you even get to HW content.


Any guess how long it'll take? We only get a few hours on the weekends.
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#8 Jul 27 2015 at 7:52 PM Rating: Good
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AngusX wrote:
Archmage Callinon wrote:
Also if you've only just finished Praetorium, I would make completion of the story, not leveling up, your priority. You've got quite a lot of ARR story you still need to get through before you even get to HW content.


Any guess how long it'll take? We only get a few hours on the weekends.


No clue. They changed how progress works when HW launched, but I'd guess that if you can only play a few hours on the weekends, it'll probably take 6 or so weeks to get through 2.55. But if you don't, then you can't get to any of the HW content.
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