Am I out of luck?

I've been having problems with my FFBE for the past day or so; after loading, I'm given just a black screen. I thought maybe the problem was on my end, so I uninstalled the game and reinstalled it. Now, the game is asking for me to name my character, it's talking about running through the tutorial, etc. I have spent almost 200 hours on this game and I'm almost done with Season 1... did uninstalling the game mean that I just shot myself in the foot and lost all that freaking progress? All those units, all my lapis, everything?? Please tell me that this is not the case, because I don't think I could take restarting from scratch.

You should have an account through facebook or google. I think you have to. Did you try logging in that way? When I forget to hit the facebook button, it also asks me to name the character, then I reset and login via facebook

I linked my account to my Facebook shortly after I started playing the game; I logged into my account on the title screen, and I even clicked the "Restore" button to prompt the game to redownload all files and DLC, but I am still prompted to enter a new character name when I try to play. I don't want to actually enter a name in case that might overwrite my data if it still exists somewhere.

I linked my account to my Facebook shortly after I started playing the game; I logged into my account on the title screen, and I even clicked the "Restore" button to prompt the game to redownload all files and DLC, but I am still prompted to enter a new character name when I try to play. I don't want to actually enter a name in case that might overwrite my data if it still exists somewhere.

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but you must have linked to something when you played the game for the very first time. maybe gmail?

Without seeing it, you should see a login with Facebook icon which should take you to a semi long update screen.

That should do the trick. If it’s still funky, force quit (do not uninstall) the app and try again

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I've logged into Facebook with the button on the title screen, gone through the lengthy update, and am still prompted to go through the tutorial. I am asked if I want to download during the tutorial or after the tutorial; I am not given any options to skip it, which leads me to believe the game thinks this is a new account. At least, that's what I would assume... if it pulled up my game data, one would imagine it would know the account wasn't new and wouldn't show the tutorial at all.

I linked my account to my Facebook shortly after I started playing the game; I logged into my account on the title screen, and I even clicked the "Restore" button to prompt the game to redownload all files and DLC, but I am still prompted to enter a new character name when I try to play. I don't want to actually enter a name in case that might overwrite my data if it still exists somewhere.

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This happens from time-to-time. Sometimes I have to uninstall FFBE and reinstall. Start from scratch (the app, not ur account).When u get the title screen, hit that FB button and log in. It should take u right back to the game.

The last time it happens to me nothing would fix it until I uninstalled and reinstalled the app. Then it was fine

I linked my account to my Facebook shortly after I started playing the game; I logged into my account on the title screen, and I even clicked the "Restore" button to prompt the game to redownload all files and DLC, but I am still prompted to enter a new character name when I try to play. I don't want to actually enter a name in case that might overwrite my data if it still exists somewhere.

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Calm down. If you already have linked the game with Facebook account, all you have to do is log in to your facebook account in-game again. That "Restore" button is actually restoring the game files, in case some is corrupted.

If anything you can try downloading the game on a different device and login with Facebook. If that works it just means you data is corrupted and you'll have to delete the entire app. As long as your data is still linked to a social media account you should be fine.

I've logged into Facebook with the button on the title screen, gone through the lengthy update, and am still prompted to go through the tutorial. I am asked if I want to download during the tutorial or after the tutorial; I am not given any options to skip it, which leads me to believe the game thinks this is a new account. At least, that's what I would assume... if it pulled up my game data, one would imagine it would know the account wasn't new and wouldn't show the tutorial at all.

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Hold off for a few hours. Sometimes it is glitchy. As long as the first account is def linked to FB, you should be fine.

Same thing happened to me a few months back and I had the same reaction you are having now. The tutorial won’t save over your fb account unless you specifically link your fb account to tho new one

I think maybe I have found a solution... I did submit a ticket to support, but their response might be moot at this point. I checked some information within the game itself, and it recommended uninstalling the game, reinstalling, playing it from scratch (as in NOT using the Facebook login button on the title screen), completing the tutorial, and once the tutorial is finished, THEN log into Facebook through the Menu. I am hopeful that this will work, but regardless will post an update in a few moments once I've actually tried it for myself.

Edit: This did NOT work. Going by what the game itself told me to do, I now have attached my Facebook account to a rank 2 account with only Rain, Lasswell, and Ashe. That is exactly what I was hoping wouldn't happen. So, thanks game for possibly ruining my progress and deleting over 50k lapis. I guess at this point I have no other option than to wait for a response from Support and see what they say can be done.

By the way, I know sometimes I don't communicate what I mean properly... I was in no way blaming the people of this wonderful community, I was simply irked at the game for apparently giving me incorrect information and possibly destroying my account. Everyone that has replied in this thread and participates in this community is wonderful, so I really hope nobody here thought I was blaming them.

Sometimes the game bugs and links multiple accounts to Facebook. It has happened multiple times that people have posted here over the years and customer service has fixed it with no problems. Only one time, that we know of, did they have a problem restoring the correct account and that person was compensated well for the issue.

Stop being mean. Op is obviously upset about his account.
If you lost your account with 50k lapis you’d be pretty pissed off.
There’s no need to add salt to his problems.@RickFish good luck!@Just Marty play nice bro!

As of a few moments ago, I have been able to retrieve my account and I am back in the game. I missed a bit of login rewards, event things, expeditions, etc., but I'm just happy to have my account back. I will gladly accept those losses knowing that I don't have to start from scratch.

Judging by the date of your first post, looks like you've been out for about 4-ish days or so. Is this correct? If so, then you're probably missing out on about 6 EX tickets and 1000 lapis from New Year's login bonuses, and you'll likely be missing out on the 5* EX ticket at the end of the month (if you've only missed 3 days, then I think you should still get the 5* EX ticket at the end of the month if you don't miss any other days logging in from here to January 31). You've also missed, I think, one day of the Vault of Hidden Treasures.

Probably a good thing that the bulk of your missed days occurred during the tail end of a dead week plus some of the more middling New Year's rewards (I think you're just in time for the 5* EX ticket from New Year's login bonuses, like, tomorrow maybe?). Glad to see things otherwise worked out for you in the end!

Judging by the date of your first post, looks like you've been out for about 4-ish days or so. Is this correct? If so, then you're probably missing out on about 6 EX tickets and 1000 lapis from New Year's login bonuses, and you'll likely be missing out on the 5* EX ticket at the end of the month (if you've only missed 3 days, then I think you should still get the 5* EX ticket at the end of the month if you don't miss any other days logging in from here to January 31). You've also missed, I think, one day of the Vault of Hidden Treasures.

Probably a good thing that the bulk of your missed days occurred during the tail end of a dead week plus some of the more middling New Year's rewards (I think you're just in time for the 5* EX ticket from New Year's login bonuses, like, tomorrow maybe?). Glad to see things otherwise worked out for you in the end!

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Dang, that's a lot of EX tickets I missed out on, so that's quite unfortunate. And missing the 5* ticket is a huge loss. I've been trying to cash in all my raid tokens, so I currently have a ridiculous amount of units over my allotted amount (I think I'm 500+ with a limit of 300) so I need to start summoning units to use these copious EXP units on, so those EX tickets would really have come in handy. Man, I didn't realize how far behind I could get in just a handful of days. But I am very happy to be able to play again, I appreciate everyone's responses and support in this thread as always. Stay awesome, and thank you everyone.

Have you sold all your gil snappers and merged/enhanced all your cactuars to save unit space yet? Assuming you don't get a single great or amazing success while enhancing your cactuars with other cactuars, one single king minituar can take up to 44 other king minituars to max out at level 60 (4.5 million XP stacked into a single enhancement unit). You're probably already aware of that trick, but just in case, it never hurts to mention it! I went for the first two months or so of playing this game blithely unaware of that so I was always cramped for unit space after cashing out on raid events