Quote Originally Posted by ICountFrom0 View Post
Amazing that it takes you, saying this, to fix the problem (at least, we HOPE it does), and nobody on staff actually had a clue.
While it might not fix it for everyone (as the Windows user account settings and file/folder security permissions can cause this issue too), it is a common issue with games that write to the user folders and Windows Ransomware protection.
Disabling/white-listing can also fix the issues of the DXclient EXE file(s) in FF14's engine and the games timed "auto-save" for the character settings, where you will get an in-game chat box message saying to the effect "such-and-such file can not write/save to such-and-such" in red text.

Also, it seems about every time Windows' built in anti-malware is updated, it has a extremely small chance of messing up it's "friendliness" with FF14's game executables, which then triggers the rare "it was working fine but suddenly its not..." issues.