Installation guide is missing an important step

[Arcitec]

When the game has been installed on the system drive (such as C:\Program Files (x86)\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn), it will be protected by Windows.

As a result, it will be totally impossible to edit shader settings or save presets (ini files) from inside the game, since the user that runs the game has zero rights to write to the game's folder. Things simply won't work.

The solution is pretty simple:

1. Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn
2. Right-click the folder named game and open Properties.
3. Go to the Security tab.
4. Click "Edit" (where it says "To change the permissions, click Edit").
5. Click "Add", which will open a dialog titled "Select Users or Groups". And there's a text field titled "Enter the object names to select".
6. In that text field, write your account username. Then press the "Check Names" button. If it is a valid name (properly written), the text will update to something like <COMPUTER NAME HERE>\<USERNAME HERE>.
7. Click OK to add that user.
8. In the list of "Groups or user names", select the newly added user.
9. Enable the "Allow" checkbox next to "Full control".
10. Apply the settings and close the properties.

Alternative: Instead of adding yourself specifically, you can just click the pre-defined "Users" group and enable "Full control", but I haven't tried that method. And it's less secure since any existing or future accounts on the computer can edit the game folder. But most people won't worry about that.

[Lifell]

It's actually better to give all users full control in the list. It's not really needed to add your own account. Running all the executables like stated in the guide as administrator usually works too.

Either way, I'm the writer of that guide and I haven't been able to update it because I can't. It's not a missed step however, it was intentional. The guide was a work in progress and from what I remember, an outdated version was live on the website and my changes were lost.

Nico (Otakumouse) has been on a very long leave and there are better alternatives available now. I've moved on as well.

[Lifell]

It's actually better to give all users full control in the list. It's not really needed to add your own account. Running all the executables like stated in the guide as administrator usually works too.
Either way, I'm the writer of that guide and I haven't been able to update it because I can't. It's not a missed step however, it was intentional. The guide was a work in progress and from what I remember, an outdated version was live on the website and my changes were lost.
Nico (Otakumouse) has been on a very long leave and there are better alternatives available now. I've moved on as well.

Trademark immature defensive unhelpful response.
Ok ok let's see, instead of addressing the issue you go with:

1. I didn't do anything wrong!

2. Whatever I did, I meant to do it that way even if it doesn't work or is unclear.

3. [person complaining] has defined the situation incorrectly.  I can define the situation so that there is no problem with what I have done.

4. None of this matters anyway because [insert several reasons]

Like, maybe just update the guide and say this whole **** thing is outdated and nobody should try to use it anyway? Also grow up.

No problem.