Warning in Regards to Final Fantasy XI Uninstall

Pikko can personally attestaru to this problem as Pikko recentaruly messy-wessed her poor husband's computer up this way. Pokko's computer was so ill that it would not start up and it took great effortarus to get it working again! ----- Recently we have discovered that closing the PlayOnline viewer during the version update process will cause FINAL FANTASY XI to not launch. When this occurs, users will have to reinstall FINAL FANTASY XI as stated in the instruction that appears upon attempting to log into FINAL FANTASY XI. However, please be aware of the following upon FINAL FANTASY XI reinstallation. Upon reinstallation, users will be instructed to uninstall existing files. During this process, users will be asked if it is okay to delete the dll files. Please select "No to all" option. If you select "Yes" and delete the files, severe problem can occur to your computer hardware, such as Windows OS not starting. Please be very careful upon reinstall process. In regards to the version update process, we are currently working to implement a PlayOnline version update where users will no longer have to reinstall or uninstall due to the termination of the version update process due to any unforeseen reason. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Happend to me too
# Feb 22 2006 at 2:51 PM Rating: Default
Gawd, I deleted the .DLLs ...I had to reinstall everything on my lap top.. glad it didn't happen on my main computer. I still have the incredible long update of files infront of me :p looking forward to that..

Peace
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# Feb 22 2006 at 3:21 PM Rating: Excellent
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What pisses me off the most is that I was clicking individual deletes because they were in /PlayOnline/ so I figured it was fine to just press "Delete all" after a while.

You know, I think I'm fishing right next to you in San d'Oria right now Lilou. lol
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# Feb 22 2006 at 2:45 PM Rating: Default
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I have to ask...

What kind of quality control do they have for their coders? I mean, wouldn't they have some sort of test server and client machines running the Windows OS?

I dunno. This just seems to be a little too much of an 'oh s---' moment when someone's lack of attention to detail finally popped through.
poor lappy
# Feb 22 2006 at 2:18 PM Rating: Default
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This happened to my poor Lappy, had to reinstall windows to get it to start. It's nice that they inform us of this after it happened <.<

oh well.
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# Feb 22 2006 at 2:21 PM Rating: Excellent
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At least you could do that. My husband couldn't even get it to reinstall Windows. I think he had to do some like, black magic to get it to work again. Took like 3 days. +_+
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RE: poor lappy
# Feb 23 2006 at 8:05 AM Rating: Decent
Yes ma'am... gotta <3 the black-magic-computer-turn-the-#$@%-back-on!!! :P

But yeah, as far as this subject goes, I haven't had a problem...
Understatement of the year
# Feb 22 2006 at 2:18 PM Rating: Default
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Understatement of the year:
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We apologize for the inconvenience.

Aka: Please spend 6-12+ hours uninstalling and reinstalling our game that broke because we "skip files" in version updates leading people unsure of if the update is done or not and don't know how to program an uninstaller that won't break your OS.

Have a nice day.
/sigh
# Feb 22 2006 at 2:15 PM Rating: Default
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And you were doing so well, SE... I know about a dozen people who've had this happen already. I lucked out and left the update going while I was at work, and it eventually just skipped the problematic part. As long as you DO NOT STOP THE UPDATE, for ANY reason, you seem to come out OK.
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