Oh, what basically happened, for those that are curious, is that windows defender decided to block FFXIV from connecting with frontier.ffxiv.com, the patching service. It viewed this as a hostile action. It wouldn't allow me to run the launcher as an administrator, as even with administrator privileges, it decided that the website was still completely evil.
Long story short, I just put in an exception on the website. The messing around in system files was to get it to stop auto-closing the window whenever I went into Windows Defender.
Long story short, I just put in an exception on the website. The messing around in system files was to get it to stop auto-closing the window whenever I went into Windows Defender.
