So, the game went from fun to play to complete trash in just minutes for me .. If minutes is the term when you stack up about 4 hours of sheer trying to log into the frikkin game.
Yes, this is a rage post because I paid for a game that I want to play. I used to be able to get into the game after maybe 30 minutes during the 1017 start. Nowadays tho, the game is completely unplayable for me due to NEW issues popping up when they say they've fixed one.

1017 - World is full, everyone knows this one, just keep trying and EVENTUALLY you'll get logged on, right.
2002 - Lobby connection error, THIS is the real issue, I can't even connect to the damn lobby anymore and it TURNS OFF THE GAME instead of retrying. Way to go programming.
Unable to update NA/EU(JP) group - Hmm, 1 second ago it was cannot load JP group, then at a later retry it could not reach EU/NA, I try again 1 minute later, Oh, it's back to not reaching JP. And it keeps switching between them. I don't even play on JP ... And just because the game can't reach the JP servers it laggs out and has to load something to load the NA/EU .. Again, way to go with the programming, just give the me message and let me access the NA/EU, or give me an option to disable JP servers on my client.

As stated, during a 12 hour livestream I hosted together with a few friends, I spent 3 hours trying to get on FFXIV. And today I've spent more than FOUR hours and I still cannot get into the game.

/endrage

Feel free to bash on me or whatever, I just spoke my mind and feelings.