A solution to "Temporary session is invalid. Please try again later"

[deathstix]

Hello all for the first time ever since the official forums were launched (and when was that again? ) Finally my life is complete...

For as long as the forums were up, I've always had this issue of being unable to log in to post anything - this message "Temporary session is invalid. Please try again later" would always come up, and I'd be stuck just reading the forum without any chance to chip my 2.14 cents worth in. I've tried to access the forum through a number of different browsers (Firefox, IE, am a Chrome user) without success. There was a forum thread on this issue like in April 2011 but there was no resolution (by any devs) to that problem. Turns out the couple of people who had that problem were players from my home country of Singapore.

The funny thing is my Lodestone blog and profile is up and active, and I do have several rants on this issue there... I find it funny that as a paying customer, this forum service was not made available to me. Also found a couple of South-East Asian players through my Lodestone blog (from Indonesia and the Philippines) with the same problem.

I've actually sent in two emails to SE Support.... and..... zilch

Well anyway I should have thought of this sooner, but just moments earlier it suddenly struck me to use an anonymous proxy to access the forum and.... wallah!!! So if anyone of you affected manage to read this...

..just copy and paste the Lodestone official forum URL into an appropriate anon proxy e.g. www.zend2.com, access the forum within the proxy website, and click on the Square Enix logo at the top right hand corner of the page. Once you log in with your username and password, they'll prompt you to enter a forum username (which can be different than your IGN) and there you go. I did encounter a problem while trying to choose my main character in the Settings, so what I did was I logged out, closed the anonymous proxy browser, and tried logging in under a normal browser window.. and it worked!

I guess I'm going to have a different experience playing this game (since day 1!) now that I'll be able to interact here as well!



Now if only SE would allow me to take part in that contest to win tickets to that exclusive FF 25th Anniversary event to happen in London.... (/cry)