Walked away from game for a while, now I cant play! Even after reinstall!

[Kittra]

Subarug, you said you tried reinstalling the game and the version never changes from 1.17?
Have you tried downloading the patches online and manually patching them into the patch folder for FFXIV?

(System specs please. I don't believe it's a hardware issue, but it never hurts to list what you have.) =)

*EDIT*

In folder 48eca647, verify that you have vercheck.dat, then under metainfo check to see if you have these files present:

(Sorted by Name)
D2010.09.19.0000
D2010.10.07.0001
D2010.10.14.0000
D2010.10.22.0000
D2010.10.26.0000
D2010.11.25.0002
D2010.11.30.0000
D2010.12.06.0000
D2010.12.13.0000
D2010.12.21.0000
D2011.01.18.0000
D2011.02.01.0000
D2011.02.10.0000
D2011.03.01.0000
D2011.03.24.0000
D2011.03.30.0000
D2011.04.13.0000
D2011.04.21.0000
D2011.05.19.0000
D2011.06.10.0000
D2011.07.20.0000
D2011.07.26.0000
D2011.08.05.0000
D2011.08.09.0000
D2011.08.16.0000
D2011.10.04.0000
D2011.10.12.0001
D2011.10.27.0000


You may also want to check this folder: 2d2a390f > metainfo, and see if you have D2010.09.18.0000

I believe this is the "version updater's" patch file.

...
I just had a thought.... Is it crashing when the updater is red or blue?