Usually when you get a technical issue, you're not the only one. When I had my weird d/c-fest I remember seeing about 6 threads for the same thing.

And what does Square do about them? Nothing, of course. lol

I hope your game gets back to normal soon :)

No characters when I try to login show up and then it times out. lol. Someone told me that I might have to delete the characters somehow lol. Niko Might be history.I still see Niko's profile on the lodestone though so the data must still be there somewhere.

I was lagging oddly in Mog yesterday and I just thought it was the other healer was really fast and just sniping my heals. But then in CC some things felt a little off. In Ifrit it became really apparent that where it looked like my character was was not where my character actually was. I was in safe spots and dying. I logged out then in but spells and everything were not right just really messed up. Now I go to login and character login is blank and I timeout. 30002

I guess if I have to make a new character it wouldn't be too difficult to get 50 again. I would miss my Ifrit bow though and the Moogle bow dropped for me yesterday, finally. I guess I would miss that too.

Oh well. If I have to make another character I will probably go hyur or elezen. I'm giving it more time and I will probably try to call SE support Monday if I can't figure it out. They usually aren't much help like you said though.

Next day Balmung crashed pretty hard not sure if it's connected. Others got the blank lobby which is still what I am getting.

This happened the next morning. Others say they can't see their characters but they have them back.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/42809-NA-Balmung-World-Technical-Difficulties-%28Apr.-15%29

Whoever told you that you have to delete your character is trolling you. Don't do it.

I had this happen to me a long time ago near launch, where all my characters were blank. I waited a few days and it was back to normal. Though what I should have done is try and contact customer support and see if they could pull them out of limbo. I hope this gets fixed for you soon.

Yeah, I think I will def try customer support tomorrow. Thanks for telling me not to delete the characters. I would hate to delete them and it still wouldn't be fixed. It was crossing my mind to go to account management and try to delete there lol.

This is a good time for me to practice my patience and get some lawn work done ^_^ I hope they can pull Niko out of the nether somewhere.

Thanks for the well wishes guys. I get really attached to mmo characters and it's freaky when I don't know what's up w/ em.

Off to work!