SE_James: I've just been reading this forum, and I admit I am nowhere NEAR done, but the sheer volume of posts from players on multiple platforms and the like... well if you've ever done any pattern analysis the only common trend I'm seeing is people attempting to use the FFXI software. In other words, all signs seem to indicate that the problem is on your end of things, not the end-user.

It doesn't matter if they are playing on X-box, PS2/3, PC (regardless of OS version), who their ISP is, bandwidth, etc. the game itself is crashing/locking for them. Luckily, I haven't been unable to log-on as yet, although I have gone home to find that at some point while I was out my connection to the servers disconnected and I have to relog in.

My initial suspicion-based on the recent events in terms of hardware/software changes-is that the server consolidation resulted in too many players logging in to too few servers, as that would also explain the massive lag issues for those of us that are able to get in. Less likely is a bug in the software that is continually being checked resulting in some type of failure for an element that is required to maintain your connection. The comon theme in all of this seems to be that it is accompanied by either an attempt to log in initially or to change areas; simply standing still in East Ronafure does not seem to boot people that are connected, but zoning does.