Hmmm....as an update to my prior post, FFXIV seems to be working fine with me again. I didn't actually do anything, though. Wonder if it's an intermittent thing, or if something changed on their end, or, hell, if just restarting my computer helped. I dunno.

Anyway, from what I hear, Bam, these server problems tend to start happening immediately after a patch. I'm kind of worried, though, since some people claim that their problems are pretty sporadic. Guess I won't know for sure unless it starts happening again.