For various reasons I decided I needed a new long-term time-sink in gaming. So......
Setting a FFXIV account back up after quite some time away became an adventure thats been going on for a few days.
I've overcomplicated it by having two accounts for which I, according to Square. lost the passwords and also my mobile authenticator shit the bed. My password manager claims I last accessed both accounts about the same time as I setup the second account with Steam so not sure why my passwords were all wrong.
I eventually gave up on accessing my non-steam account because Square is a clusterfuck of logins/passwords/onetime passwords/authenticators. So secure I can't even access my own accounts
I only wanted to access both accounts to see what account had what expansion packs and where my characters actually were. I'm useless at remembering things like that.
So I went with Steam and just bought the latest Expansion etc.
But anyway, my biggest source of annoyance eventually is that the client through Steam will not even install FFXIV without having game-time added. That really REALLY pisses me off.
Its not the money because hey its just a bit of cash and I waste loads of it myself. Its the principle of only installing unless you currently paying and therefore wasting your play-time by installing. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.
I think this happened when I last played 2 expansion packs ago. I infuriated myself that much that by the time I got it up and running I couldn't face playing.
I circumvented that this time by buying six months of playtime. I may have calmed down by September and decide to play