I have been getting error 2002 for five consecutive days now. I cannot get into the game, period.

I have tried several things. Running as administrator, not running as administrator. Even to the point of opening ports on my router, which did not help at all. Still 2002s. The START button is consistently grayed out for me.

I got to the point where I got it to light up by pulling up another window, like a web browser like chrome or firefox, for a minute or two. It would allow me to then get into the character screen. Sometimes it would not even pull up the NA/EU data center world lists for me, when I ran as administrator they did.

Now, I even got to a Now Loading screen with the city backdrop and moogle. This was the farthest I have gotten until the 2002 reared its ugly head once again.

I'm really sick of this and all I want to do is play. This is a piss-poor launch, if there ever was one.