Hi,
This particular error has been annoying me for a while. I have a work around, but I'd like to stop working around it if possible.

It occurs right when I start the launcher, and when encountered will simply close, letting me get no further. My work around is to use my work VPN, which does work and the launcher doesn't report any errors, but this slows things down whenever I need to do a big download and the new patch particularly was painful hence why it has come up again for me.

I have read some other threads with this error or similar ones but they always seem to be for other OS versions and I can't seem to match up the instructions for mine (windows 10). Have tried PC restarts, and pinging to one of the ffxiv addresses I found in one of those threads without issue on the ping. So I'm guessing something the vpn changes is the cause of the issue but not sure what that would be.