I just recently bought a new computer and wanted to download FFXIV to it. Turns out this is not a simple process... It's really impossible to find it through any official website and you have to really google for the download page.

From a security point of view this is not an ideal spot to be in. First of all you have to trust the link of a random guy in the internet to be an official one. None of the offcial links seem to have a valid host certificate and the download doesn't provide any checksums.

After all this fun, you have to log in to another portal - once again without https - because of 'suspicious behaviour'. Having jumped through all these hoops I really wanted to share the 'fun' experience in the form of feedback. The process for giving feedback is in my opinion a barrier for people to easily express their opinions/suggestions to make the game better. If I want to give feedback, I really don't want to go through yet another registration process.