So my gaming has been (and will be till next week) a little slow.
My copy of Wings of the Goddess did show up. So I pop the disc in and fire up the ol' PlayOnline viewer. I register the expansion and go to download the patches. Its been a while since I've played any MMO's regularly, but I've never seen one that requires you to have the subscription (Or in FFXI's case, the content ID) to actually get the updates.
So I reactivate my old one and start downloading the updates. 4 hours.
It says its going to take four hours. So I let it download, verify, and whatever else it feels like.
Around 11 PM, it finishes. I go to load the game and I get the follow error "Failed to Load Expansion Data. New content unavailable".
I completely

ing forgot to install the actual expansion disc, which no doubt would have reduced my download time from 4 hours to the 15 minutes it takes after I installed it properly.
I start it up and it hard freezes the 360.
By this point, I call it a night and will try later.
Later arrives after I get home from work yesterday. Apparently, there's a new patch to download. Though I suspect the patch the previous night didn't actually download properly, hence the freeze.
I start it, delete my old character and start fresh. I'm able to get up to the point where I'm actually put on the server and...you guessed it...hard freeze again.
I've given up on it for now. Maybe after my project is finished up.