Lobby Login Issue?

Anyone get kicked from FFXIV and get the authentication error message, try to log back in but have some kind of technical error message?

Same! Happening to everyone it seems

Yeah, I also got kicked with same error in the middle of doing EX trials. Launcher won't let me log back in.

i was in the middle of the cutscene to unlock the final area when i got the boot, guess i'll go browse gelbooru or something until we get an update

Happened this morning and is happening again. Sadly I just got into game and poof so guess I'll go play in the EU tonight not going to battle another queue on Balmung which actually went without incident until i got into game.

I'm sure SE will tell us soon how it's our connection's fault.

It seems like the only people who were actively booted were those who were in a dungeon or cutscene. Maybe it's the instance servers that took a dump? I've just been fishing, and still am as I type this.

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Originally Posted by EorzeaHero69

Anyone get kicked from FFXIV and get the authentication error message, try to log back in but have some kind of technical error message?

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Yep, happening to me as well.

I'm getting the same error, and I was just sitting in queue waiting to log in.

https://i.imgur.com/zlBh5xA.png

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Originally Posted by Rolder50

It seems like the only people who were actively booted were those who were in a dungeon or cutscene. Maybe it's the instance servers that took a dump? I've just been fishing, and still am as I type this.

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Happened to me while i was in queue. Got the dreaded 2002 and now cant get back in

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Originally Posted by Rolder50

It seems like the only people who were actively booted were those who were in a dungeon or cutscene. Maybe it's the instance servers that took a dump? I've just been fishing, and still am as I type this.

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I don't think so, I just came back from work and was greeted with this error.

Yeah.. Got booted here, and yes, was in a cutscene

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Originally Posted by Rolder50

It seems like the only people who were actively booted were those who were in a dungeon or cutscene. Maybe it's the instance servers that took a dump? I've just been fishing, and still am as I type this.

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NOPE, I have been in queue for 4 hours, and got Authentication Error 5003 and can't get back in.

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Originally Posted by Rolder50

It seems like the only people who were actively booted were those who were in a dungeon or cutscene. Maybe it's the instance servers that took a dump? I've just been fishing, and still am as I type this.

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I was collecting an aether current when it kicked me out. :(

Some further investigation tells me that Microsoft Azure went down at the same time, which is a service you can use to manage logins among other things. That must be how they are handling logins and why it went down probably.