How To Properly Download the Update

Friend texts me over and over to please come back to game to try the "new fixed content."
Reluctently <reactivate XI> from Account page


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>>>> FFXI Account Page>> < Deactivate> service.

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This is how I did it.

I'm getting error codes 1160 and 1161. I contacted customer service.

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Originally Posted by Bearstar

I'm getting error codes 1160 and 1161. I contacted customer service.

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Customer service.. oye....

Nothing like a 20min file check, just to time-out, hit retry, and then have to do the entire bloody file check again.

I've logged in 5-6 times since patching and it took 3-4 retries each time

I just kept retrying while I did other things.

this 'congestion' is even worse than the previous update.... I tried to update several hours ago and its sitll not working...

Seems about the same to me.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

this 'congestion' is even worse than the previous update.... I tried to update several hours ago and its sitll not working...

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I can't even log in. I considered it a hot tip that I should do something else -- went and had drinks, came home played some GW2... If I can't get in tonight I probably won't try again for a while (read: until another patch)

AI couldn't even post on the forums because i didn't log on for the last 30 days. So I wet to log on and was getting these errors. I decided to wait about 12 hours and try later. Mine worked fine on all systems I updated. I was totally unaware that If you don't log on every 30 days your are unlinked from content ids even though your still getting charged. After I logged on for 3 seconds the problem went away.

I guess even if you PAY for service you don't get it unless you play at least once a month. I choose not to call the SE support number knowing I'd be calling in vain. They have enough to worry about with all the layoffs since the April 2nd in the LA offices.

SE should at least allow PC users to bypass their godawful upate process on POL by hosting the DDL themselves. Saves us times/stress, saves server stress, allows PS2/360 users to update faster using POL. Everybody wins. They know their update software sucks which is why they went with torrents in XIV. It's really not a hard temporary solution.
Though the ideal solution would be to just recode POL.