Hallo all,

yesterday I tried to get in the game. had to force myself through three hours of failed log-on attempts to get on.

And for the past fifteen hours I have tried to log onto the game aaaand guess what.

I have gotten enough black rectangle of dooms to make blackout curtains for the Louvre,
managed to get black rectangles -AFTER- I entered my login and password in the required fields and gotten a string of java instead of a launcher.

To whit: this one:
<script type="text/javascript" src=http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/ft/version_3_0/scripts/common/element.js?ver=201

I got this one when I accidentally highlit the whole lack rectangle.

In all, I managed to get past the black rectangle of death twice, and gotten a 2002 and 5006 error.

For fifteen hours of trying to log on and play the game with friends...ya. No fun.

I am nowhere near the Heavensward stuff either; the gear I have on now has been a gift from a dear friend. I want to do my main quest and get that magitek armor already! iwant to run through the field of fates, wander through the world and explore it, run screaming like a small girl from overpowered overworld bossmobs that try to flatten me and my chocobo, finally find out how to get the minigames, go fishing and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Found on Europa, moon around Jupiter. A freaking huge iceberg. I want to experience it all.

I want to play this game. I really do.

So I wonder. When will this stuff be done with? When will I and, I doubt not, a massive troop of other people that want to play be able to do so?

Here's what the error of the script says when run in IE.

Script: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\XDH6H3T2\element.js
Line: 6
Symbol: 1
Error: 'utils' has not been defined
Code: 800A1391
Source: Runtime error Microsoft JScript.

So...

Here's to hoping they'll actually listen to us.

Unless, of course, we need to go sacrifice virgins/children/goats/force people to watch slideshows of holidays and weddings whilst droning at them in a monotone voice about what is going on, or worse, dig out the horrific old VHS tapes of the weddings. The horror...

Anyway. Let's hope things get fixed; I want to go play with my friends. :c

P.S.: Might be an idea, guys at SE...do something for your community; they're getting pretty sad with how you've been not communicating with them. Hell, toss us a bone; something silly or the like that we can enjoy ingame, something shiny to show the world that we survived the Catastrophy of Heavensward Prelaunch (title or something? Iunno) or some pocket change to use in the Mog Station store? Or just five days added to the subscription for the time people have not been ableto enjoy the game or, indeed, been able to play.

Ah well; back to the grind and hope that I can log in to actually grind.