lobby server status

Hello all,
longtime ffxi player (still play), decided to buy ff 14 today, June 24. As such I already have a valid square enix ID, added 14 registration service, as well as the option
1 character +basic service through click and buy, everything went smooth as far as I can tell, got confirmation emails and such. All was done around 10am, (4pm now) including installation and update. When I try to start ff14, it won't let me log in, it pops up with a maintenance try again at later time. I looked online, and I don't see a maintenance scheduled, or an emergency one. Wondering if there is a problem with lobby server? As far as I can tell all the servers are up.

I am also having the same issue I have not logged into ff XIV since the natural disaster a few months ago and thought it might have been my AV or firewall, i checked those they all listed it as a trusted / allowed app, checked and updated my DNS since I had a dead one in my list. shut down and restarted before and after a reinstall of FF XIV and reinstall of subsequent updates. tried the DMZ, and tried (not in the DMZ) disabling my AV / firewall and other defensive service programs, to no avail. I do not use the built in windows firewall and am running Win 7 ultimate and did not have any issues prior to this.

Just something to try.
Take a look at your security settings in Internet Explorer, and either set exceptions for FFXIV or try and lower your security setting.

I'm sorry to hear that Lee-Sona. I tried Loth's suggestion and it worked! More specifically I turned the cookie policy down from high to medium under privacy tab in IE. Maybe that might fix your problem too. Thanks so much!!!

Curse you IE9 and your irritatingly required existence on windows that complicates everything... but it worked thanks loth.

Don't blame IE... blame SE for using it :P