New Player- troubleshooting

[xAsthenia]

Hey, I'm home now!

Right if you go to My Computer - C: - Program Files - SquareEnix - Final Fantasy XIV.

You'll notice a boot.ver and a game.ver.

If you right click these and select Edit, it should open them via Notepad.
If not you will need to select open then scroll down in the list to Notepad.

When it opens in notepad you will notice there is a date value. Without changing too much change them both to 2010.09.19.0000, hit save or ctrl and S and try boot it up again.

****NOTE****

Make sure you copy and paste the contents of both these files in a wordpad or something just in case something goes wrong, it will save you having to reinstall the whole thing again.

I also read up that once you've done this, if it crashes at 100% it indicates that files are fully installed.

[Quadricorn]

i see game.ver and boot.ver did right click... no "edit" and i did double clicked... it said programs not found

[Quadricorn]

found game.ver and boot.ver... did change number exact what you given out... it wont let me save message pop up "files not found...." what do i do now? lol i apologize for use up your time

[Sju]

Hi, I am completely new too and I have searched everywhere, but every time I log in it says the whole service is down for maintenance, but I have look everywhere and I cannot find any updates on the forums or the site explaining this or how long it will last. Does anyone know what is going on?