Zoned into Meriph. Mountains (S). Got booted, Can't log back in main character.

[Raydeus]

Attempted both Wireless and Wired, I normally run on wired. Since I've been exploring these zones without issue for the past two weeks since I came back, i'm going to wait til morning before I start deleting files... perhaps the issue will have resolved itself by then or a GM will have assisted me. Was a huge ordeal getting the game installed during the Free log-in thanks to some bad directing and such from Steam, the thought of going through it all again is enough to make me wanna stab someone.

Definitely saving my macros if i decide to go that route though...

Yeah, hopefully it's just a temporary issue or a GM can help you with it.

Just one thing about the reinstall, using Steam is no longer needed to download the client. And from what I've heard the Steam version has some odd issues sometimes. So if you end up reinstalling I suggest you do it using the download from Playonline rather than the Steam version.

[Karbuncle]

Yeah, hopefully it's just a temporary issue or a GM can help you with it.

Just one thing about the reinstall, using Steam is no longer needed to download the client. And from what I've heard the Steam version has some odd issues sometimes. So if you end up reinstalling I suggest you do it using the download from Playonline rather than the Steam version.

You can download it from playonline now? Neat. Last time I remember trying that you couldn't still. But that was a while ago... I should do that next time, thanks.

[Karbuncle]

Waiting overnight didn't seem to fix the issue and no GM has contacted me via Email yet even though I've submitted two tickets like 12 hours ago... Guess I'll reinstall and wish for the best.

[Tidis]

They have the client hosted on the FFXI website now: http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/dow...stall_win.html

[Karbuncle]

Okay, well, completely deleted and reinstalled the game and I still can't log in. I think I've been decently patient until now... but thats gone... Sorry for the bystanders but lets see how many times I'll need to bump this before someone notices ._.

Edit: and for what its worth I'm not using a certain 3pt.

[Karbuncle]

Still not working. Sometimes I disconnect even just trying to log into Playonline... but always immediately works right after I get the error.

[Karbuncle]

Fiddled with anti-virus, Restored Windows Firewall to default, accessed Modem firewall and shut it off and tried, didn't work. Still unable to access either character. Attempted Google searches, all came back firewall related or some such ffxi.dll issues, this isn't happening for me.

Again I apologize to the folks just trying to read the forums, feel free to ignore this thread. But I really do feel nearly two entire days of this f*ckery is enough.

[Karbuncle]

Bonus round: Logged into Guild Wars 2 just fine, but FFXIV is also broken and I cannot connect to its Servers either. So apparently Square Enix hates me or my Computer hates Square enix.

[Karbuncle]

I get it to work intermittently by doing a LOT of f**kery, I was also able to Walk around Sauromogue and Ceizac on my mule, however, I still disconnect went entering both Rolanberry Fields and Meriph Mountains (S)... and it completely locks me out of those characters until I frigging hard reset my computer connection by deleting the Registry Keys for the connections... Which will allow me to connect to the zone, but if i exit and try to rezone, I get disconnected.

[Raydeus]

Man that sucks, btw have you tried turning off all the firewalling and see if it works that way?

Also, can you access XI using your brother's computer and move normally that way? And if you can, are we looking into a full OS reinstall here?