Quote Originally Posted by Soukyuu View Post
WINE is extremely unreliable when it comes to network from my experience. For example, I just set everything up on ubuntu 12.04 and I am only getting network access when starting the program via command prompt, but not if I launch the exe directly.

And in case of ffxivboot, it fails it's version check no matter how I start it. It might be because I'm launching it from an NTFS partition, idk.
Are you running Ubuntu through Wubi or natively? If native copy your FFXIV files from Windows to an external HDD, boot to Ubuntu and reinstall the game on your Ubuntu partition via Wine (this works from the dvd) then copy the FFXIV files to your installation (overwriting everything) then run the game from the Ubuntu partition and it should work fine.