Hi there, I've tried many solutions to my problem, and am kind of at my wit's end trying to get back into the game, so I've finally decided to post here, after seeing nothing on the first three pages of any of the tech support forums that might be related.

Back in January, I think, after playing normally since August, my launcher (seemingly randomly) starting giving me an error. This error, in fact. That is, when it wasn't an all-black screen that sat there and never did anything, even after staying up all night to think about it. There have been two occasions in the past few months that I got a regular screen. Once to show me the EULA, but without a proper bottom to it, so I couldn't accept it, and once that I tried to log in, and forgot my account wasn't subbed anymore, so it kicked me right back out.

The error number it gives is an Internet Explorer error which indicates a failure to download the webpage, usually from an interrupted connection. But I can access other webpages just fine, and I can get a proper 403 code when I try to access frontier.ffxiv.com from a browser.

I've tried several solutions, like rebooting my computer, power-cycling my router and modem, factory-resetting my router and modem, deleting the game information under My Documents, reinstalling the game first back to my F-drive and now in the default directory on my C-drive. I've tried using Internet Explorers 8, 9, 10 and 11. I've made sure I'm not using a proxy or VPN, I've made sure my Internet Settings allow for invalid signatures.

I am truly unsure of what to try next. Every potential fix I look up on forums, or Reddit seems to yield no results. Thus I am here, asking in my own thread. Is there anyone else who's solved this issue through a method I've yet to try? Do any of the support staff for SquEnix have some gem of insight that might solve this issue?

Help me Technical Support, you're my only hope.