It shouldn't be this difficult to get the game working

[NautiaHadas]

The catalyst for me writing this is essentially that my brother is one of those person who gave up on an excellent game because getting it to work was too much of a hassle. Before anyone judge my brother on his abilities, a couple of years ago, he had some issue with his old laptop where his OS was essentially corrupted and broken beyond salvaging by a computer virus. Since he needed a laptop to work and had lost his Window license, I suggested to him that he could try installing a Linux OS on his computer. I gave him basic instructions on how to do it, and he completed the installation of Mint to the end. So his technical abilities aren't exactly lacking.

I doubt that many people who give up on the game like that ends up writing about their dissatisfaction anywhere, my brother has moved on, like many others I suspect. But it pains me to see this unreasonably difficult and fickle barrier placed in front of potential new players. Fickle in the way that these problems just seem to be of different gravity for each person. For some, the process of registering just work and is relatively easy. For others, like my brother, it's incomprehensibly difficult.

I'm making this post in the feedback section in the hopes that somebody with the power to review and change the process of setting up a player's account to play the game may read it. Frankly, with the amount of games I've played through my childhood, teenage years and my life now as an adult... I can count on the fingers of one hand the amount of games that gave me a headache getting them to run. I'd like Final Fantasy XIV to not being one of those fingers.