Many of us have been unable to play the game the way others do, for 5+ months. Some of us had a workaround, but 6.3 broke that workaround, so I want to resurface this as the current best workaround (albeit needing to be repeated each major patch it seems).

Quote Originally Posted by yate View Post
I did some more experimenting, no need to rename/remove steamclient64.dll in the Steam Folder.

Instead, I renamed
Code:
steam_api64.dll
inside
Code:
<Steam Folder>\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY XIV Online\boot
to
Code:
steam_api64-bak.dll
That seems to consistently work for me, and it persists through Steam restarting. I'm assuming it will work until FFXIV pushes an update for that file. Again, not sure what the consequences are, but it allows me to play the game without quitting Steam.