Launcher issue: "A system error has occurred: -2146697208"

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yeah... looks like that one is tied into the Microsoft products. Translates to a hex error code of 0x800C0008, which shows up all over the map from Windows Update, to .NET, to Microsoft Office products.

May want to check that you have both .NET 3.x and 4.x enabled, and then run Windows Update to make sure everything is up to date there.

They stopped enabling .NET 3.5 by default a few releases back in Windows, so you may only have v.4 active. A lot of older stuff got nixed in v.4, and some installers are still calling some of it which causes odd behavior sometimes. If you go to the Add/Remove Programs control panel (appwiz.cpl from search/run box), and then click the link about turning Windows features on/off, you should see them listed there with check boxes to activate them. On some versions of Windows, it might be listed under a legacy category.

Edit: Just to rule it out, make sure to run FFXIV as Adminstrator to see if it behaves. (Right-click shortcut, run as Admin). If that does manage to resolve it, you can set this option permanently in the properties of the shortcut. Another bizarre one is to make sure your system's date/time are correct. Believe it or not, this has been known to trip up Windows Update, and when I searched the error I got hits on time synch errors.