It happened to me to begin with (acquisition then d/c problems) on my main character. I then switched across my various mules (4) and none of them had any problems. Back to my main and d/c over and over (this was in Burburima Peninsula at OP..fortunately before the meter ran out on my last attempt I ran to the zone point and it transitioned me to Tahrongi..everything was fine after that). So if SE wants some information, try tracking the problem back to however your server accesses the database for character information. It is not an ISP problem if only one character was stuck while the rest work.

I was also in Whitegate when over half the town suddenly went d/c red soon after - fortunately I was one of the lucky ones that did not bite it in that run. I did find it amusing that when I petitioned a GM during my orginal problem with my main that they just sent me a message saying "its you, not us". Way to be customer friendly.

Overall I do feel that SE tries to help us while keeping the game in balance. Problem is that it is just not good business to tell your customers that they are the problem... especially right after you do a huge update and suddenly everyone across all servers and different ISP are having the same issue. Just because you have not found a problem does not mean it is not there. Cha-ching..my two cents just ran out.

Just so everyone knows, if you are experiencing this problem but u are able to get to your character you can still play. Everyone seems to have problems in different zones but what u need to do, if u are able to, get to your character to the nearest zone. I know as soon as u log on you start to disconnect, but most people can still walk around. Its very strange actually. You are sending your position to SE still so when u walk around, u are actually walking around on the game, and when you disconnect, when u log back on, u will be in the position u left off. Once u get to a zone, u need to disconnect again, then when u relog on, u will be in the other zone. And just hopefully this zone does work for you.

Its not the ideal situation, but i am having this problem so far in Port Jeuno and Tahrongi Canyon, thankfully places i very rarely go. So although its an annoyance, at least i can still play.

I have 10 characters in which 5 are doing the R0 thing. If there was a problem with my ISP or my router then would all 10 be doing the R0 thing? I logged into one who could stay in and got on my friend list and asked him if he would see where it says where one of the ones that can't stay in is at on his friend list. I logged in one that couldn't and sent him a tell twice. He received the two tells but when he answered them it came up with the little message about me not being in game or was changing areas. He said it said my account was logged in and all it said was Kerebrus Garuda. So if this is doing this then maybe SE does think we are logged into game and just not listening to what we are saying and I know they can see if we are in a game because my BF and I have ran a server before and we could go in as a GM and actually go to the spot where the player was at. If SE says there is no problem then SE is not gonna look for an solution to it. So i guess my 4 years of working on them is for nothing and it seems to me like SE cares no more. If not fixed soon I will be dropping my account and will find another game to play. So good luck to all.

:)

Last night was the first time I tries to log in in over a oonth...updated fine, then locked up on "acquiring character data"

Same thing today.
This sucks

While I haven't personally had any problems, it does seem that many people are.

Is this a problem concerning just the PC version? I am playing on xbox360, and my friends who also play on 360 seems to have no problems as well.

Are there any PS2 users experiencing the same thing? Maybe we can at least narrow the conditions of the problem a little bit.

I totally understand how you guys feel though. Not having changed a single thing on the client side then a sudden arise of problems after a software update - anyone could see where the potential problem would probably be.

SE also said above they checked their servers and services and found no problems...are they ruling out the fact that it might be a bug in the actual update itself?

At least SE has been quick to address various problems lately, I wish everyone the best of luck.

so I'm getting these connectivity problems too ever since the update, but it's odd. I use a D-Link wireless router (wired for FF, wireless for laptop) and it has never, ever been a problem before. Now since the update, I stop communicating just before the character selection screen loads. Happens the same with both of my accounts, and on GF's account as well on her PC. If I bypass the router altogether, works fine. Is everyone out there having this problem using a router? or specifically a d-link router?

I even called FF to ask for help checking the settings for my router, and they esentially told me to talk to d-link, not them. Last thing they told me was to shut off the PC, leave it for ten minutes, try again and if it still doesn't work, call back. Yea, maybe if this was a 1-800 number, but I don't live in CA so.....no.

How many of these must I read before one of them actually fixes the problem preventing me from logging on?