LiadansWhisper

As far as I know. Also: I hate you. Edit: I TAKE IT BACK. My code finally went through!

You attach it to your service account (which has your beta access attached to it I believe). Edited to Add: LOL...now I'm getting "Service Unavailable" when I try to get to the preorder site.

Still no luck for me. Frustration has me turning to Nyhm for comfort. D:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That explains why I was seeing an eu site loading in the bottom left of my Chrome window. I had this feeling that maybe something was pulling from somewhere else, but that would explain everything.

I have the same thing and it honestly has me a little worried. When I use the log-in details for my actual service account (this link) to log-in to the registration one (which appears as you say to be a different site - if you complete that form there it'll finalise the set up of an account there) it lets me log in, but it doesn't show my 1.0 FFXIV game under the games listing. I can see the game account on my service account, but not that other site despite using the exact same log-in details. Which leaves me concerned as to whether putting in the pre-order code is going to work or not. The two accounts are not connected. They aren't connected at all. You can use the same information in both, or use completely different information. The nationally-affiliated account has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not you get Early Access. The 20-digit code you get from entering the 18-digit code in the pre-order site needs to be entered into your service account. As long as your service account actually has the code entered, and reflects that you have early access, you have early access. Again, the two accounts are not connected. Which is dumb, and confusing, but there you have it. Edited to Add: I realized that this is just...I get confused reading my own post. Okay. So. You pre-ordered the game. YAY! You should have either a) received a receipt with an 18 digit code on it (if you ordered from Square US, you should have gotten it, and I hear Amazon was doing the same), or b) gotten an email from your vendor with the code. That is the 18-digit code. You are meant to take that code and go to the pre-order site and enter it in. If all goes well, you should get a second code that is 20 digits long. That 20 digit code needs to be entered on your service account. As long as the 20 digit code is attached to your service account, you will get early access.

Okay, so, there are two websites. One is the Nationally-affiliated Square website for your country. Such as, for me, as a US Citizen, there is: http://na.square-enix.com/ One is the "clearinghouse" website that actually controls your Beta access, your game access, and is where you will be actually paying for FFXIV access. It is: https://secure.square-enix.com/account/app/ The pre-order website (http://preorder.na.finalfantasyxiv.com/ is the US site) is actually running through your nationally-affiliated website. So whatever account you have at your national site is the one you use there. When you enter your code in the preorder site, it is supposed to respond with another code that you can then take to the clearinghouse website (the place that actually controls your account access and subscriptions) and enter it to get early access. Currently the pre-order website isn't functioning, and the clearinghouse website won't let you input the code even if you do get it (their registration isn't yet activated). And yes, this is really confusing and dumb, imo.

Oh, I just remembered one. Hanali Celanil. Yes, folks, the Tel'Quessir Goddess of Love made an appearance on humble Balmung. And in case you are wondering, she was, indeed, an Elezan.

I was somewhat upset that I couldn't report their names as inappropriate. Spoiled by WoW, I suppose!

I really need to finish my character's background. I'm such a procrastinator. lol

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Well, this may make you horrified, but now WrA's Goldshire and MG's Goldshire are one and the same. Thank you, CRZ. :roll: I found the PSU in the storage room in my house, thinking maybe I could play FFX or something. But...there's no controller. LOL I fail! :frustrated:

I'm horribly offended. No one wants to go to the Accordian! :-P I was actually on Moon Guard. Technically still am with all of my Horde alts and my Draenei Priest. hahah, that's true. But I never went there except to kill Alliance, soooo... Well, and the one time that DK's were bugged and could target members of their own faction with Frost Fever and Blood Plague and were slaughtering lowbies all over Stormwind and Elwynn. The bones in the Goldshire Inn were up to my hips.

HOLY PRIEST IS BEST PRIEST! Too bad we only hit our ULTIMATE POWER when we are D.E.D. - DEAD! lol Yeah, I play a Holy/Disc Priest. Wait, Silvermoan? lol were you on Moon Guard?

Well, this is going to sound dreary, but... This week is almost certainly going to be consumed by entire days of testing on the PTR for WoW. The new raid tier comes out the 27th (coincidence? No.) and they're rushing testing of all of the bosses into this week. Sooo...it'll look something like this: (In case anyone is wondering, I'm the Fail Angel in the middle of the screen )

Welp, this is me after I finally got back in (I was so giddy I ran in circles around the Aetheryte thingie in Limsa Lominsa for like, half an hour!): And this is from my adventure on the Japanese server I ran to (Vaelfor?). Yes, for 12+ hours yesterday, I was a Falafel (Lalafell!): And yes, my name was Pink Pansies. Because I could. >.> I found a group of Falafels that included Hamburger Freedom, Chai Tea, and...horror of horrors!...Joffery Lannister. I even have a screenshot of him dead: There are more in this album: http://imageshack.us/g/1/10283822/ Oddly, about half of my screenies didn't save.

For character creation? Yeah, it probably will be until Early Access, sadly. :-\ W-What?? No... Okay. I'll just... umm... orz You can always try now. It's in the "wee hours" and they have been lifting the character creation restrictions during periods of low population.

Good news! They extended it until 8am PDT for the NA/EU servers.

For character creation? Yeah, it probably will be until Early Access, sadly. :-\

It's fixed it's fixed! I got in!

They also tossed the ones logged in out about 20 mins ago. So it looks like they're pulling the servers down completely.

Everyone in mumble with me that was still on the NA servers just got booted.

Yeah I ran my ass to the inn to go retire lol. They slowly fixed the 3102.. I survivored to play like 2 hours before shutdown. Its all good. I have no fear that my character will be stuck in 3102 upon early access. They haven't fixed it for everyone. Before the maintenance, I was still locked out.

It's just yet more proof that I have a problem. lol. Hi, my name is Liadan, and I have a problem. I really want to play my Hyur. >.> http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/1klx01/error_3102_support_groupcounseling_thread/ Is a really entertaining read.

This just showed up on the launcher: At the following time, we will be performing emergency maintenance on Worlds hosted on the North American and European datacenter. During this period, the Worlds listed below will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding. [Date & Time] From Aug. 18, 2013 at 9:30 p.m. to Aug. 19, 2013 at 12:30 a.m. (PDT) * The completion time may be subject to change. [Affected Worlds] - Exodus - Faerie - Lamia - Phoenix - Siren - Diabolos - Gilgamesh - Leviathan - Midgardsormr - Odin - Shiva - Moogle - Adamantoise - Coeurl - Malboro - Ultros - Behemoth - Cactuar - Cerberus - Goblin - Balmung - Excalibur - Hyperion - Ragnarok - Sargatanas