Quote Originally Posted by SilverYari View Post
After sprawling through the internet for a while, a few people on reddit with the same issue and suggested I add "-issteam" to the shortcut which i did here. This is to allow the game to launch without steam. However, my computer would not let me apply saying it was "invalid". See here.
Add a space before -issteam and then it should work.

So it'd be ....ffxivboot.exe"<SPACE>-issteam

All this chaos to force Steam people to use the Steam version and it hasn't even done that, it's just stopped the reverse from happening and caused carnage in the process