We understand THOUSANDS of players are still experiencing connectivity issues when they are trying to log into FINAL FANTASY XI or while traveling through various areas in FINAL FANTASY XI.

Again, our team of technicians investigated and confirmed that our FINAL FANTASY XI servers are working properly, and our service is not experiencing any technical difficulties at this time. However we are continuing to investigate the exact cause of the issue and will make every effort to assist in remedying it.

If you are having connectivity issues, just try not connecting to FINAL FANTASY XI ever again. We deeply apologize for the inconvenience you may be experiencing.

Try Deleting FFXI from your Drive and re-installing. After 7 days, of cursing, and throwing shtuff, it worked for me. Enjoy playing again finally!!!

why is my cursing pleeped Oo
lmaol com on !

Since I fixed my D/C problem, it hasn't happen to me since. However there is a slight delay when zoning into certain zones. Like my MH or Jade Speluncher or whatever.

If you think this is bad, remember four years ago when half of the FFXI population couldn't even get into the game after one of their updates that they blamed on "server hackings."

already tried;

* tried changing the mac address, several times and didnt work

* tried to re-install, re-dowaload the update.. during update,
there was no error so everything went smooth but, didn't work either.

ffxi community:
is there anything else we can try before calling SE? keep those suggestions coming pls..

SE, gives us something better than,
"If you are having connectivity issues, try connecting to FINAL FANTASY XI again at another time..."

im throwing sentinel up and curing you for hate, so i'm not giving up ><;

Dear SE:

It has been days now and still I keep DC'ing all over the place. I certainly hope you plan on adjusting peoples bills since we have not been able to PLAY since your lovely update. I find it unbelievable that with all the enginners and techs that you have, you are unable to fix this in a timely manner.. no, no... the "Everything is working properly" excuse is NOT cutting it. If things were working properly THOUSANDS of players would not be dc'ing everywhere. I am on the verge of cancelling my account. This has gone on for way to long.

this d/cing is bullsh** i need to do level 50 cap AND i also have to level my drg at garlage cital from level 48-50 there. This is horrible i cant go on with my favorite game because i cant do 50 cap. I am stuck at garlaige cital and cant get in there without a d/c. It runins my pts cause thats where everyone pts at level 48-50 and it also ruins my time to get 50 cap. BULLSHI*

Just so you know It would've eventually happened to your mules. I was playing on one of my mules and it connectvity issues as well about the time I thought I was going to be safe. I then changed to my gardening mule, and she soon froze as well, just about the time I had to give my Trees their crystals......
Hopefully this update fixes the problem, and that my Chocobo doesn't hate me.

I still can't log in past player data. Please fix the problem soon.. thanks

Well I play ps2 and my main character is the one that is stuck, however I can log on to my mules just fine. This is an SE problem, I'm going too call them tommorrow.

Unfornatly I am stuck in the Port Bastok where the airship drop passengers off, I cant get out because I have too open the bastok arrival doors from the airship office. With the R0 thing going on I cant open any doors so im stuck there for who know how long.

Edited, Mar 12th 2007 11:45pm by Cljader

I'm throwing my 2 cents in as well. I encourage everyone to post here. Let's see how many thousands of people answer this. That'll make SE realized that they're just dicking people around over this.

I have talked to some of my friends who are having this same issue and i got on one of their characters on my pc and bam no problems. I have found one thing that every single one of my friends have incommon who have this issue....They all had an error while updating and had to redl the update.

This could be the major cause right there as in the error could have corrupted any number of files in your ffxi folders depending on how far along you were in updating. The reason this could happen is that if the file was partially downloaded and the update was resumed the version check could have recognized the corrupt file as a complete file and continued on thereby creating a problem when the update was installed.

This would account for why the areas differ for everyone and why its only certian areas (in the case of people not being able to connect at all it could be a login file that errored out). This would also account for why I could log on my friends account for him and move his character out of low jeuno (where he had issues) to port so he could play.

The mac address change, well at this time i don't see any reason why that would affect your game i will do more research on this issue.

Further I instructed 2 of my other friends who were a bit leary about passing out their pol info to just reinstall and update again, which they did without erroring out, and now they have 0 problems aswell.

As for the errors they probably came about due to the large ammount of people trying to log into ffxi and update at the same time. This could in theory cause a server overload as they are sending out more information then normal (because alot of game data is handled on the users side) whereas this would all be on their servers.

My recommendation for a fix for this issue would be to reinstall ffxi and if you have an issue with, omg nooo my macros, like i do just go to your Play online>>Square Enix>>Final Fantasy>>USER folder and just copy that folder itself and past to desktop and after reinstlal put back in that spot and bam macros back.

I wish you all good luck and I hope i have been able to help out.

Ive tried everything you could possibly try on my end and nothing Im stuck between my Moghouse and Aht Whitegate. Im on PS2 btw. I can however login just fine with both my mules ><.

well i'm pretty sure i've found a solution for myself. i'd been having the same problem that everyone has been having with the R0 in certain zones.what you need to do is put in a new MAC address onto your router. this is basically how you do it on windows XP. go to Start > Run and type in cmd then in the black window type ipconfig /all. now the MAC address will be the "Physical address". then what you need is your router's configuration tool. i have a linksys so it's found by typing the address to it in my browser. then you need to find where you can manually type the new MAC address you got from ipconfig. once you do that, reset your router, and hope for the best. i was having problems zoning into valkurm dunes, and i can play there now finally!
I haven't tried any other areas as of yet but the problem place that i was close to (valkurm) is fixed. good luck all :)

Well everything was working fine for me, until a took the airship too bastok, appearently port bastok is one of the dead zones and now my character is trapped there until the issue is resolved. I can log on too my other mules without a problem however my main character is in the dead zone (Port Bastok) and cannot be brought out of it until SE get their sh*t right.

I suppose its hard to say who to truly point the finger of blame at.

SE says their servers are properly functioning. ISP's say the same thing.
The problem is sporadic. That's all anyone knows. There is no single ISP, Network equipment, hardware setup that is singled out. Some xbox work, some do not; some ps2 work, some do not, some pc work, some do not.

I haven't had a problem yet (PC version, Comcast ISP, Michigan, Linksys WRT54G wireless router hardwire), but then again I've only been to Whitegate, Al Zahbi, Bhaflau Thickets, Al Zahdaal Undersea Ruins and Caedarva Mire since update.

Whomever the problem lies with, I hope it gets fixed for the sake of the thousands of players who are irritated to the point of possibly canceling.

Whether or not SE is the culprit of this, they should put forth a huge effort in determining the cause, as many of their subscribers are losing faith and will simply move to another game.

Hope you all are able to connect soon. Good luck

i have had the same problem, after the update..when i log on and everything works fine btw. Until after the charcater selection screen and i select my character, the recieving signal on the side drops down to 0%. And soon after i disconnect. and i do have a router :(.. hope they fix this router problem.

Dear Guys and Gals at SE:

THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM ON OUR END!!!!!!! IT'S A PROBLEM ON YOURS!!!!! ACCEPT IT!!!!!! seriously, we have checked, re- checked, and re re checked all of our Internet connection, cable box, PC's, EVERYTHING and we are still having issues... I even called and harrased the ISP company we have and they say the same thing.... everything is working fine. Thousands of people( all over the world I might add) that are having these same problems didn't all come down with a case of bad ISP service(not possible since we ALL USE DIFFERENT CARRIERS!!).. it just isn't possible. On top of that, funny how all these problems started AFTER your wonderful update. If memory serves me correctly, there IS ALWAYS a problem after your lovely updates. Maybe its a problem with your network and ISP provider. Stop trying to blame us and fix whatever it is that YOU have broken. I don't pay for this game so that I can't play it.

J

Roll back all networking changes to the previous version ASAP.

Try again later lol. I've been trying for the past three days with no luck. It must be their servers because the problem is that I can't acquire server data. It worked perfectly fine before the update. At least they acknowledged the problem, that's worth something.