Unable to Download Launcher

[Stench]

Just started renaming the exe files and eventually it worked. I did not mess with av or firewall ports. Does seem like the deadline snuck pun se, nothing seems error free. Game works well so far, hope 21 and above work...

[Rajempu]

This is what worked for ME (did the stars align and servers worked after ten times without doing this? Could be.) [I tried it in with my friend's computer as well, same thing]
Go to Program Files (x86) > SquareEnix > FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn
Right click on the boot folder and uncheck Read-only > Apply > Apply to folder, subfolder and files
Do the same thing to the game folder
Try to update again.

Hope it helps

[RodynXur]

Don't worry it gets worse. I swapped my router and FINALLY got through the 1035mb patch download only to get ANOTHER failure during updating. No worries you say, atleast the download is done, nope it starts alllll over. /sigh

Same here :/ By way of a bit of an update... I said I was getting a new router. I setup the new and... same issue. So it's not the router. Please help devs!

[RodynXur]

Just started renaming the exe files and eventually it worked. I did not mess with av or firewall ports. Does seem like the deadline snuck pun se, nothing seems error free. Game works well so far, hope 21 and above work...

Which files did you rename? And what did you rename them to? Thanks!

[Player1]

Well I setup the torrent against my phase 4 folder, and it put it at around 65% (as in files already existing). Thanks, here's hoping to no issues. It's like we had the exact same thread during phase 4.

[Player1]

New big update, same problem. Hello again [30413][10009][10019] my old friend.

Need to be able to resume downloads again like we could before the phase 4 client.

[kAhn360]

I'm in the same boat. Been trying to update game for the last 2 hours (Or when patch went live.) Constant error. Farthest i got was about 1/4 the way to completion then server stopped responding. This is getting really old. Ive had these issues since phase 2 of the beta. Every patch is a fight. Its ridiculous. I havent experienced any of the game server errors that others have, but when i wanna update my game oooh man... Come on SE DO SOMETHING PLEASE.

[Player1]

I've had this since alpha.

[kAhn360]

Have been doing google search all night. Nothing that I've found worked. I've tried EVERYTHING. Port forwarding, turning off firewalls, rebooting routers the list goes on. I'm at a loss. Don't know what the hell to do.

[Player1]

I've tried every suggestion made to fix the issue and I came up with the idea of creating a virtual machine of Windows XP SP3 using VirtualBox and it seems to be downloading it without issues. I'll just need to keep it around everytime there's an update. A solution that works, otherwise try finding other machines with installations of Windows.