Reporting Launcher Related Issue (Europe Region)
We are aware that players have been experiencing launcher issues recently, and in order to help the investigation, we would like everyone to follow the following steps when reporting these issues.
Error encountered
A system error has occurred: -2146697211
HTTPS System Error
Contacting your Internet Service Provider
The issue may be occurring at one of the routes the Internet Service Provider (ISP) takes to reach our servers. The issue may be something that may be resolved on their end, so we would first like you to please contact your ISP. When contacting your ISP, please make sure to receive a ticket reference number from them as this will help us investigate the issue when we need to contact your ISP.
Reporting the issue in this thread
When reporting your issue in this thread, please make sure to provide the following information.
• Name of your Internet Service Provider (ISP)
• Ticket or reference number from your ISP (if you have one)
• Country
• Date/Time (When did the issue start happening, at what specific times does this issue arise, if any)
• Frequency (How often does the issue occur?)
• Traceroute results to "secure.square-enix.com" (Learn how to generate traceroute record)
Thank you for your patience and we greatly appreciate your cooperation!
Launcher problem Switzerland
• Name of your Internet Service Provider (ISP): Rii-Seez-Net (https://www.riiseeznet.ch/)
• Ticket or reference number from your ISP (if you have one): None
• Country: Switzerland / SG
• Date/Time (When did the issue start happening, at what specific times does this issue arise, if any): 01. June 2020 08:00 AM - til now...
• Frequency (How often does the issue occur?): always
• Traceroute records (optional) (Learn how to generate traceroute record): All routes tried
VPN, DNS Flush, New IP, Reset, Mobile Hotspot, nothing helps....!!!
Issue has veen fixed by Cogent
I got this email yesterday (June 2nd 2020) at 13:00 GMT+1 from Cogent:
Quote:
Hello,
We have found a CEF issue in one of our core routers, you should not see any more packet loss. Your service should now be functioning normally
If you have further questions please feel free to contact us.
Best regards,
Customer Support Europe / European Network Operation Center
So the problem was in the core router: tata.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com
Launcher stuck on grey FFXIV logo from today
- Name of your Internet Service Provider (ISP): Virgin Media
- Ticket or reference number from your ISP (if you have one): None
- Country: UK
- Date/Time (When did the issue start happening, at what specific times does this issue arise, if any): today, 23 Aug 2022, 1pm
- Frequency (How often does the issue occur?): everytime on game boot since then
- Traceroute results to "secure.square-enix.com" (Learn how to generate traceroute record)
traceroute to secure.square-enix.com (124.150.158.110), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
Code:
1 _gateway (192.168.1.1) 0.665 ms 1.785 ms 1.776 ms
2 * * *
3 bmly-core-2b-xe-821-0.network.virginmedia.net (213.105.194.81) 18.832 ms 19.064 ms 29.010 ms
4 * * *
5 host-62-254-42.174.not-set-yet.virginmedia.net.42.254.62.in-addr.arpa (62.254.42.174) 29.901 ms 29.601 ms 21.447 ms
6 213.46.174.118 (213.46.174.118) 30.437 ms 13.535 ms 21.174 ms
7 ldn-bb4-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.120.238) 20.727 ms ldn-bb1-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.122.188) 21.675 ms 22.695 ms
8 prs-bb1-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.135.25) 29.273 ms * prs-bb2-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.133.239) 27.560 ms
9 mei-b4-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.118.91) 36.849 ms 36.353 ms 38.888 ms
10 * * *
11 mei-b4-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.135.140) 192.012 ms osa-b1-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.115.63) 235.908 ms mei-b4-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.135.140) 191.153 ms
12 tky-b2-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.115.64) 416.012 ms 416.426 ms 412.196 ms
13 squareenix-svc081441-ic371309.ip.twelve99-cust.net (62.115.38.91) 247.414 ms ash-bb2-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.112.242) 280.812 ms 61.195.56.165 (61.195.56.165) 249.344 ms
14 lax-b23-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.137.39) 332.698 ms 219.117.144.78 (219.117.144.78) 246.831 ms lax-b23-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.137.39) 338.962 ms
15 219.117.144.57 (219.117.144.57) 247.530 ms 219.117.144.78 (219.117.144.78) 255.318 ms *
16 squareenix-svc081441-ic371309.ip.twelve99-cust.net (62.115.38.91) 455.225 ms 219.117.146.141 (219.117.146.141) 251.415 ms 219.117.144.57 (219.117.144.57) 254.631 ms
17 61.195.56.165 (61.195.56.165) 450.405 ms 445.823 ms 219.117.147.90 (219.117.147.90) 246.903 ms
18 219.117.144.78 (219.117.144.78) 433.574 ms * *
19 219.117.144.49 (219.117.144.49) 436.941 ms * *
20 * 219.117.146.137 (219.117.146.137) 431.202 ms 219.117.146.129 (219.117.146.129) 436.276 ms
21 219.117.147.90 (219.117.147.90) 455.917 ms 455.897 ms *
22 * * *
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Was working completely fine, seemed the 6.2 patch did something to break it? No idea what to do from here.
Major launcher Issues for number of users from 12 December
- Name of your Internet Service Provider (ISP): Virgin Media
- Ticket or reference number from your ISP (if you have one): None
- Country: UK
- Date/Time (When did the issue start happening, at what specific times does this issue arise, if any): Yesterday, 12 Dec 2022, 5pm
- Frequency (How often does the issue occur?): everytime on game boot since then
Lots of people in the UK have been reporting launcher issues from the same time yesterday. Lots of posts on Facebook groups and Down Detector.
https://downdetector.co.uk/status/finalfantasyviipc/
issue happening to myself aswell as friends in my area
having this issue all morning, my friend and i are both having the same issue
• (ISP): Bell
• Country: Canada
• Date/Time: 14/12/2023
• Frequency: all day
• Traceroute results to "secure.square-enix.com":
Tracing route to secure.square-enix.com [124.150.158.110]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms RT-AX88U-B820 [192.168.50.1]
2 2 ms 3 ms 3 ms 10.11.10.73
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 4 ms 3 ms 4 ms 10.115.17.229
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 24 ms 25 ms 24 ms 64.230.59.212
7 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms cr02-mtrlpq02ho6_bundle-ether8.net.bell.ca [142.124.127.253]
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 64.230.79.89
10 22 ms 22 ms 27 ms peering.kddi.com [198.32.160.25]
11 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 59.128.3.85
12 80 ms 80 ms 80 ms 203.181.106.217
13 184 ms 184 ms 184 ms 106.187.12.13
14 183 ms 183 ms 185 ms 27.85.227.109
15 192 ms 189 ms 189 ms oteJIN301.int-gw.kddi.ne.jp [27.86.32.2]
16 189 ms 190 ms 190 ms 125.29.26.42
17 182 ms 183 ms 184 ms 133.208.191.149
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 187 ms 187 ms 187 ms 219.117.144.45
21 187 ms 186 ms 187 ms 219.117.146.129
22 186 ms 187 ms 187 ms 219.117.147.86
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.
Trace complete.