Terrible User Experience for Returning Players

[OmNommy]

My games loaded in and patched from the trial version when I had to reinstall. So if you use that download it will work since it does ask for account information it will instantly pick up the fact that you already own the games (as long as you aren't using a new account too)

This is what I tried at first, but at least for me it didn't allow to download the trial version for an existing account. Of course I could have created a throw away account, but that sounds less than optimal to me.

[MaloraYuki]

Hmm strange the trial thing worked for me and I didn't have to use a throw away account O_O maybe they changed it from the last time I did it.

[RileyThause]

http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/playersdownload/na/

Since it's been a trial for some to find, I've provided the client download link above for future use, if not an example of how easy you 'can' find it if your Google search terms r straight forward and to the point (I just searched 'FFXIV download' and found it at the very top of my suggestion links).
On a side note, one can even troubleshoot and fix their own computer without taking it to a shop and dishing out cash, but again, that depends on the individuals 'capacity'..

[AmeliaVerves]

(I just searched 'FFXIV download' and found it at the very top of my suggestion links

I literally just did this and then was like "Eh?! ... Is that... uhm... was that really that hard?!". x'D