Open Beta Sign Up

After days of camping the sign up page it is still not available. You are kindly meet with the message "Server is to Busy". This also appears to effect the actual Square Account management page. I wonder if this is hosted on a Cloud network like Media Temple or Amazon S3/AWS.

Downloading FFXIV Beta

If you are having problems downloading the beta version of FFXVI, check out this post. It seems that the FFXIV updater program is just a glorified torrent client. You still need the updater to download the torrent file(s) before trying to use them in a different program.