Quote Originally Posted by TaalAzura View Post
FFXIV Game Client

The launcher invokes the game client by executing ffxiv.exe with extra command line parameters. It appends DEV.TestSID=xxxx, where xxx is the session ID, to the launch command. Here is the issue with that. That session ID is now plainly visible with any basic process inspector such as Microsoft's Process Explorer. No special memory viewers to get this information. This means it is incredibly easy for any virus that is on the computer to obtain the information. This also means it is possible to bypass the launcher to load the game client by just repeating the same command at the command line.
Sorry but clearly you haven't verified your facts before posting them. This does not work. I've tried to launch the game this way twice (once before and once after getting the authenticator app) and both times it does not get anywhere.