MacOS Catalina - Launcher Can't Run

[DurianGray]

I'm having the same issue! Sad to see there's no current resolution!

[Arngrim_Greyashe]

Honestly, this whole thing is completely ridiculous. I just purchased Shadowbringers, reactivated my SE account subscription, only to not even be able to run it. No warnings when I was buying the game from the SE store, nada. Now I can sit here and not play for 2 months (hopefully it's out by then) or reward SE for this failure by buying another platforms version? $40 + $15 wasted.

...and no, I'm not interested in wiping my computer and trying to go back to a previous version of MacOS just for 1 game and to cover for this screw up. I just want my money back at this point.

You do realize that it's not SE's fault that Apple's OS broke, right?

[Synful]

You do realize that it's not SE's fault that Apple's OS broke, right?

You do realize you just showed you have absolutely no idea what's going on, right?

[Sebazy]

The flip side of that is that Apple has been putting out warnings that this was impending for roughly 2 years, not to mention that the new OS has been available for developers to test and preview for a month or so.

[OriWhitedeer]

This literally just happened to me as well. Im going to uninstall and reinstall Mojave to see if that works. Unfortunately Apple changed the way it does Time Machine so its practically non functional, I tried to revert only to find that none of my prior snapshots were saved...so I'll post back if that's a viable option.

[GilroyKilroy]

This literally just happened to me as well. Im going to uninstall and reinstall Mojave to see if that works. Unfortunately Apple changed the way it does Time Machine so its practically non functional, I tried to revert only to find that none of my prior snapshots were saved...so I'll post back if that's a viable option.

I decided it was easiest to just create a Mojave volume to boot into. You have to copy the game itself, and all parts (like from ~/Library/Application Support/FINAL FANTASY XIV ONLINE and ~/Preferences/com.square-enix.finalfantasyxiv.plist), to the volume. The biggest issue was finding the Mojave installer to install with. Google is your friend for that ("mojave installer download").

[Arngrim_Greyashe]

You do realize you just showed you have absolutely no idea what's going on, right?

This response proves that you have no idea what's going on. Maybe do some research.

[Sebazy]

This response proves that you have no idea what's going on. Maybe do some research.

SE's client is literally a multi layered bodge. The only surprise here is that they still have the gall to charge for it, it should either be a proper native client or it should be a free addition to the Windows licence.

[Synful]

People have a seriously weird idea of "broke". Catalina is working as intended and exactly how everyone had been told it would be for well over a year. It's on SE and whoever they have contracted that in over a year, they couldn't properly update their client to 64-bit. If other people did THEIR research, they would know this. FFXIV is literally the only still updating piece of software I have that was not properly updated to 64-bit in time for Catalina.

As for the whole "this happens sometimes and they'll fix it" idea...sure. My problem is that we are looking at nearly 2 months until their estimated fix and even that can slip further. 2 months to fix the launcher is, yes, ridiculous.

Amazing the people that will make excuses for SE's poor support for a platform they still charge full price for.