FFXIV 2.0 ... or FAILURE 2.0?

[Aenarion]

seriously? are we doing this again? -_-;;


to the OP, who probably doesn't care anymore since this is a necro, looking at your series of events and how often they occur, I'd almost say you may want to check out your system first, the problems with uninstalling especially rings the alarm bells. Since you say you work in the IT field, I assume you've already done that. At which point, I'm not sure what to tell ya. The lack of any wide-spread complaints suggests that this is not something that happens very often, and at least from my personal experience, most cases of corruption/patching issues from online games tends to be user-side issues.

[Rydin]

seriously? are we doing this again? -_-;;


to the OP, who probably doesn't care anymore since this is a necro

Its actually 1 day away from Necro.... Today is the 13th... there is a 1 month necro requirement... lol

To the OP... are you sure the error message didn't read "Why the hell are you doing the Darkhold after 1.19?"

[grandm]

i can see where the OP is coming from. you can't really be expected to take out a 6 month sub only to have an update that will cause this problem, and stop you ever getting back in. this needs to be fixed

however this problem will not be happening with 2.0 i'm sure. it will be a new server and a new engine, SE knows there are problems right now, problems i guess that can't be fix with the system we have. that's why 2.0 is being made in the first place. so to say 2.0 is a failure. wrong

P.S. in the live letter from the producer. at the end they suggested they are looking into the amount we are charged. so its not like they are not listening or trying to please the customer while at the same time clawing back some of their loses

[Dreamer]

I've been playing since launch and I've never had a corrupted patch.

[Rydin]

I've been playing since launch and I've never had a corrupted patch.

Neither have I... but since since the OP is an "IT" you have to know that with anything you download from ANY site, you always run the risk of the downloaded file being corrupt. Come on...
It could be anything from your ISP, packet loss, RAM, HDD...
Neither I, nor anyone I know have had that problem, so throwing accusations (on a problem that could very well not be SE's fault) is kind of irresponsible...
But then again, here we are on an internet forum talking about responsibility... that's my bad

[Aenarion]

I've been playing since launch and I've never had a corrupted patch.

me neither, but those things does happen, it's just the nature of PC in generally, you have a crap ton of variables all the way from your connection to hdd that can cause these issues.

edit: great, now rydin just have to go and beat me to make my post look redundant :P

[Rydin]

me neither, but those things does happen, it's just the nature of PC in generally, you have a crap ton of variables all the way from your connection to hdd that can cause these issues.

edit: great, now rydin just have to go and beat me to make my post look redundant :P

You're still the man though

[Verecund]

@OP You might want to check your hard drive for bad sectors if you haven't already

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

My brother downloaded the game through torrent because I damaged my install disk and he wanted to use my buddy pass and he had the same problem. Maybe try buying the game and see how that goes. :P

Cause that's what he ended up doing and everything was fine.

[Jennestia]

Yeah, I've clean installed XIV on so many PCs for friends/family/stores that I've yet to encounter an issue.