I'm certain there are others who aren't able to access the store right now in the Middle East region - Why? No idea. If you aren't from ME region, let me know if the store half-loads for you.
All that happens is the page opens with some text on it, as if its not fully loaded. Just text and blue text links. Its not like it doesn't open at ALL. It half opens, basically you can't navigate through it.
How do I know this only happens in the middle east? Because there have been other forum posts with this same issue and they say they can't access the store in the same region I am in - and people from EU/NA it seems to work just fine for them. Atleast, to my knowledge? let me know if you are from EU and it loads for you.
This randomly started happening now for about a month or two, or even more. I have purchased things from the FFXIV Store previously MANY times before, so I know for a fact this was never an issue before. I am trying to access it to buy a Reaper Job Boost for my Alt on EU to prepare it for Savage and I am unfortunately unable to do so - because the store won't work. Share with me your thoughts if you are experiencing something similar - because its completely unacceptable for it to be down for this long only for a specific region.
The work around is VPN - But I don't want to buy a VPN just to access the store since I use exitlag for games but it doesn't work for websites, the idea of needing to buy ANOTHER VPN just to access the store.. I JUST want to buy what I want and be on my way. That's it.
This hasn't been addressed by the FFXIV Team. No one talks about this. its basically unspoken about, its only spoken by Middle East players who are buying things from the store which is a VERY FEW amount of people. Its in the forums of FFXIV and I have seen few reddit posts in the FFXIV subreddit already talking about this issue.