PS3 Needing Disc to play?

Hi,
My son registered his game on the PS3, which we had pre-ordered for him.
He has been able to play a handful of times and now the disc won't play in the drive. The drive plays other discs but when he tries to play FFXIV, the game won't play. It wants the disc.
So for the past 2 1/2 weeks he has not been able to play. Is there no way around this? Honestly if someone buys the game, registered it, and has been playing it, why is there a need to have the disc in the machine? Doesn't that put unnecessary work on the disc player? Is this the 90's? It's an MMO, why does the person using his registered account for the PS 3 need the disk? It's ridiculous.
I just paid $180 to have that drive repaired in February and don't want to have to replace it again just for one game that won't work.

Please tell me I am mistaken and this game is playable without that disk.

Thanks.

I play on ps3, the disc is only used to install the client launcher. If you scroll down on the menu where disc is played from you should see the XIV launcher.

Hope this helps!

A console that requires a disk...

Call the media, they'll want to know about this.

I'm on PS3 and it only needs the disc to install the game and register it. After that you don't need to have the disc in the PS3 to play. You don't launch the game from the disc after you install it, you just launch it from your games folder. (You probably already know this, but I'm just mentioning it to be sure.)

The only thing I could think to check is if your son's hard drive is full. If it is then there may not be enough room to install the game and the updates.

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Originally Posted by Lurkios

A console that requires a disk...

Call the media, they'll want to know about this.

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A mmo that require the disc to play ? , only on consoles logic. :rolleyes: