This seemed to be fixed for a day or two and now it's back. Having tested this out, I can confirm it's definitely not on my side.
- It's only impacting NAM/EU Servers as Crystal Data centre is the one I was playing on. (I will test EU properly if I have to but I have no alts there).
- I logged on and levelled/gamed on my alt toon on the Japanese servers and held a solid connection the whole evening.
- All other devices in this house are working perfectly.
- I have reset the router multiple times as a precaution and to no avail.
- I have tested my connection to the servers and they're not experiencing packet loss or extreme latency.
As a result of this error I have noticed the following:
- Once I start getting this error, that's it, I can't play for the rest of the night. I can maintain a connection to the server for about 5mins max before it kicks me again. (I've had instances as short as 30 seconds before it's done it again).
- The error doesn't care where you are or what you're doing, it will hit you in big cities, in dungeons or in your own inn room. Yep, that means I can be idle, casting, or chatting and I get my butt kicked out.
- It renders the game unplayable, you must stop everything you're doing and if you're in a dungeon you'll need to leave as you're slowing the group down and a waste of a slot.
- If you do manage to hold a connection for longer than five minutes, the instant you try to do something new it seems to boot you from the game again. A few times I've thought I was going to be ok and then as soon as I attempted to participate in a roulette I've been disconnected from the game and I'm back to square one.
While I don't mind playing other games and I do enjoy them, I would much prefer not to get kicked out over and over again when I intended to play Final Fantasy. If I'd wanted to play another game I would have done so.
Please fix this, it's getting ridiculous now, and it's gotten noticeably worse in the last week.