The Server is not responding

[Ghostrain]

Just an update for anyone who is also having this problem. I contacted support. And while no solution was found. Something may have given me a clue. The supporter tried to ping my IP but was unable to connect to it and said that something was blocking the connection. So I contacted my ISP (At&t) and opened all ports on my modem. Then I went into advanced settings for my firewall and created a new rule for FF boot.exe That also did not work. The only other thing I have is windows defender which is disabled when i start the download. As I am running windows 8.1 it does not come with Microsoft Security essentials so I dont have to worry about that. Anywho still not closer to an answer but will keep trying.

[Will01]

When I last tried windows 8, was in beta, it did have MSE integrated into it.

However something is definately blocking traffic, do you have peerguardian (or whatever its called now) installed or anything like that?

[Jinwa]

And yes a torrent would be great

For some stupid reason my last post was deleted. I'm uploading the game to WeTransfer now. I checked the file for viruses before uploading (and WeTransfer automatically checks for virus when you upload files there as well) so it's safe.
Here is the link for the whole game:

http://goo.gl/NJWOPD

[Will01]

For some stupid reason my last post was deleted. I'm uploading the game to WeTransfer now. I checked the file for viruses before uploading (and WeTransfer automatically checks for virus when you upload files there as well) so it's safe.
Here is the link for the whole game:

http://goo.gl/NJWOPD

I'm pretty sure it was deleted before because your not allowed to upload copies of the game, its deemed piracy.

Also, i'd say this post will be deleted as well.

[Ghostrain]

Seeing how this entire thing is really just a work around for the true problem. I am still trying to figure out the source. But at least now I can play the game while I solve the problem so my entire month doesn't go wasted.

[GTONeko]

This really has been going on long enough. >

I've had this issue the first time trying to update, had to torrent the full game with patch, and here I am again with the same issue, still failing after over 1GB+ and still getting that issue.

I really want to play this game some more, but I can't with the patch not wanting to fully download. I hope to hear about what the lowest times are that it's possible to try and download it, before I have to reformat my PC, and I really don't want to do that.

[Raist]

Then I went into advanced settings for my firewall and created a new rule for FF boot.exe That also did not work.

May not be the right .exe to whitelist. There are several files in your XIV folders... forget exactly which ones my firewall asks me about when the new updates come, but some look like better candidates for getting the updates (like the ffxivlauncher.exe, as that is when the version check initially kicks off, and then there is ffxivupdater.exe as well). I'm running Win8 on both my systems now (finally wiped the old XP box... still in a bit of a mourning state over that move), and it runs it just fine once I respond to the security prompts to allow the new .exe's access. I also have added exceptions for the IP's I've detected the game using as well. Could run netstat in a cmd prompt or Resmon to see what IP's are being used if you want to give that a shot as well (they may even show up in your log as being blocked if there is an issue with IP filtering).

[Furlamseere]

It seems that there have not been any further posts about this concern being an ongoing issue. Because of this, we are considering it to be resolved. If this does continue to be a concern, please create another thread to further discuss resolutions or contact the Support Center at support.na.square-enix.com for assistance.

- Furlamseere