Final Fantasy XIV Players On Xbox Are Receiving Console Bans For Seeking Free Company

Final Fantasy XIV players on Xbox are receiving console wide bans for seeking or helping others find a Free Company.

[Auron]

Leave it to xbox...

[DarXyde]

That's wild. I'm guessing someone in a position of power is VERY opposed to sharing resources.
Is this not happening on other platforms? It really seems like this game is a very unpleasant experience on Xbox the more you hear about it.

The question is... Is this Microsoft just looking to make more money on micro transactions, or is Square sabotaging the Xbox version? I really don't understand this.

[willko]

most of the issues are coming from Microsoft.

-Microsoft has insisted on having their own special "currency" called FFXIV Coins that you have to buy and use to pay your subscription if Xbox is the only platform you have FFXIV on. The problem though is that they don't sell coins in increments to pay for just one month at a time. You have no choice but to overpay and have coins left over.

-Microsoft's chat censorship is meddling with the in-game chat log by censoring ridiculous things as well as pieces of other words if that word contains a naughty word such as "class" being censored to "cl???".

-Microsoft refused to make an exception of requiring players to pay for a Game Pass subscription to play the game online. Therefore, Xbox players are the only ones required to pay for two subscriptions since PlayStation made an exception for this game and doesn't require PSN+.

-However, Square refused to budge on one of their policies as well which negatively affects Xbox players. Due to the way Square insists on tying the game purchase to your Square Enix account, it makes FFXIV the one and only Xbox game I'm aware of that does not support Xbox's Game Sharing feature. Each and every gamertag that wants to play the game will need to have its own purchase registered, even if they're all using the same physical console.

[JBlaze226]

I feel it's Square sabotaging Xbox. It' just don't add up