Hi I am back with my update, honestly I dont know anymore. I have been playing games ever since I was young, played many different games from SA > LoL > D2 > OW > WoW > FFXIV.
I play usually on average 6-12 hours depending on my rl activity and I have never considered myself "addicted" to games.

Ever since playing FFXIV, I have been playing average 16 hours a day (also cause COVID lockdown), and I think I'm actually addicted to FFXIV, but having this issue happening over and over again. I no longer knows what my plan is from here on.

Back to the topic, I fresh/clean installed windows 10 again, it worked for 4 hours, crashed once and now i'm getting a (different) error, I crashes upon clicking "Play" button and the error is similar but in Japanese. I googled some solution and tried it, did not work.

I dont even know what to do anymore. 40 days of playing, and I have 473 hours in (19.7 days game time) and this is including a total of 5 days that I have not been able to touch FFXIV cause of crash.
I really dont know what to do at this point anymore, I love the game so much that I have already spent like 50 USD on mogstation items when I am still on "free 45 days" gameplay given by SE.
I am really lost..... where is my warrior of light, where is my warrior of darkness to help me out....

sorry for all the rants.... i dont know anymore... is this suffering even worth it? shld i just move to another game knowing that I given up on a game that I once enjoyed the most?