┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ Starter (†) │ Complete (Current) │ Complete (Launch) │ Dawntrail (*) │ Evercold (*) ┃ ┠────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┨ ┃ A Realm Reborn │ Starter │ Starter │ Endwalker │ Endwalker ┃ ┃ Heavensward │ Endwalker │ Endwalker │ Dawntrail │ Dawntrail ┃ ┃ Stormblood │ Dawntrail │ Dawntrail │ │ Evercold ┃ ┃ Shadowbringers │ │ Evercold │ │ ┃ ┃ │ │ │ │ ┃ ┠────────────────┴────────────────────┴───────────────────┴────────────────┴────────────────┨ ┃ ┃ ┃ (†) Cannot purchase if "A Realm Reborn" is already on the service account. This note ┃ ┃ is aimed at users who played prior to "Starter" being released. Such as Legacy ┃ ┃ and/or 1.0, or A Realm Reborn's Early Access in 2013. ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ (*) Requires Starter / A Realm Reborn. ┃ ┃ ┃ ┠───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┨ ┃ ┃ ┃ Q: "Will Square Enix offer an upgrade if the Complete Edition, or the Dawntrail ┃ ┃ Expansion is bought now?" ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ A: No. Purchase of the Evercold expansion will be required if the Complete Edition ┃ ┃ or Dawntrail Expansion is bought now. ┃ ┃ ┃ ┠───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┨ ┃ ┃ ┃ Q: "Can I return to the Free Trial after I buy the starter or complete edition?" ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ A: No. Purchase of either will flag the service account as owning the starter edition. ┃ ┃ This means the account must retain an active subscription after the initial free 30 ┃ ┃ days of subscription time provided by the starter edition's initial purchase for each ┃ ┃ platform ends. ┃ ┃ ┃ ┠───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┨ ┃ ┃ ┃ Q: "Will I be able to play expansions (Endwalker/Dawntrail) now if I pre-order ┃ ┃ Evercold?" ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ A: No. Pre-ordering / pre-purchasing Evercold now will require the purchaser to wait ┃ ┃ until Early Access (currently January ??, 2027) to gain access to the expansions. ┃ ┃ ┃ ┠───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┨ ┃ ┃ ┃ Q: "Will Square Enix charge my account immediately if I pre-order through the Square ┃ ┃ Enix Store?" ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ A: No. Pre-ordering Evercold through the Square Enix store will only charge if the ┃ ┃ purchaser either chooses "Debit Now" or waits until June 28th, 2024. ┃ ┃ ┃ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛