Dont buy this game for PS3

Im currently posting this thread so others dont have there PS3 crash and no longer start like mine did! I have several friends who say there PS3 freezes from overheating while playing the game! I have had this game for 2 weeks now and it has killed my PS3 and it will no longer turn on! If you do not wish this to happen to you dont but this game for it will overheat your processor and kill your PS3!

Yesterday I had the same issue. after 3 hours of play Ps3 freezed. I restarted the console and after 10 mins freezed again....

Hmmm, buy it for PC. A machine thats made to better deal with heat dissipation.

Runs fine 24/7 for me. Besides in FATEs where i can't see shit.

did you ever clean it? might have been the dust

No issues here. Slim model though I did last year buy a little addon for it that attaches a set of fans at the back to force pull air out. So that might be helping as well.

I notice my old model ps3 overheats and lags a ton but I recently bought the 500gb slim model and it works very well I never seem to lag and its quiet as a mouse stealing cheese out of your pantry, keeps very cool as well, I don't recommend using the old VCR style ps3 for this game unless its properly ventilated and dusted/cleaned out.

I prefer the ps3 honestly, but can't wait for the ps4 and remote play on vita, playing secretly at work is where it's at, get all that crafting inb4 you play for real after work is over D:

Oh shi! Boss inc! -puts vita in pocket-

I have the slim ps3 in my house and I leave the game up most of the day while I am at work, come home and play, no problems. Your ps3 was probably on the verge of dying to begin with. Don't blame the game.

Clean out the dust, move it away from walls, and don't throw a blanket over the top of it. This game puts no more stress on the system than any other game.

Did you get the ylod?

I got the YLOD from the game... I have the launch PS3. But I got YLOD while I was in the middle of updating the client, so I doubt it was from overheating. x_x

I haven't had any problems and I've played for 100 hours or so including beta tests. It's most likely that your PS3 just hit the end of its life. I had a launch PS3 that had blu ray drive go out 2 years ago. So I replaced it and my slim is running perfectly fine for the time being.

My brother plays on the old fat one for hours and hours.
Lately the fan was running at higher speeds and just used a vacuum cleaner to remove some dust (more like wool :p) from the holes and it got quieter.

I have frozen one time on my slim ps3, and that was surfing a fate. I have since editted my options in game to not show skill and spell animations for anyone other than myself and party members. Haven't had a freeze since. However I will post here again if I have another freeze issue.

Clean out the dust, move it away from walls, and don't throw a blanket over the top of it. This game puts no more stress on the system than any other game.

Did you get the ylod?

My PS3 slim works fine for me. I have no issues at all.

Mine is a PS3 Slim 320GB and it is working fine, I keep checking it for overheat but so far no signs of it, even with all the FATE's lagging the game sometimes (it crashed my connection, but PS3 still had no signs of overheating). Remember to keep the fans clean and in a not-so-hot environment.

I play 10 hours a day and no issues on ps3.so its not the game .

This Game requires A LOT of free hard drive space to function without problems, anyone I've seen with problems on ps3, including ny wife, didn't have enough free space on the hard drive. Delete some stuff and it worked fine for her for 16 hours straight no freezing. The game freezes when it tries to save but doesn't have the space to do so, this leads to overheating or death. Bottom line, get a bigger hdd or clear some room

I'm still using my PS3 from not long after release and had no issues with freezing at all even when I was playing over 12 hours straight at the weekend. The fan is running constantly but it does that with pretty much every game. Only got a 40GB hard drive so I pretty much emptied it before starting with FFXIV:ARR.
Ideally they need to put in options to turn off more background detail/shadows/water effects etc. as even with battle effects turned down to zero busy areas take an age to load up characters/mobs. FATE's are a bit of a nightmare to contend with.

lol you make me laugh with your "casual consumer" ideologies that claim "the game broke my console". Grow up and use some common sense. I'm willing to bet you've never cleaned your console since the day you bought it and its probably under or behind your tv in some dusty crevice you call a shelf, crowded by a pile of other games and or accessories allowing it zero room for actually breathing. This game didn't kill your console, your bad luck did. Btw, I run my ps3 12-24 hours a day and I chase fates, and the only problem this game has on ps3 is the invisible monsters during fates, not overheating.

This is why "true gamers" play on PCs!

I can run any other game fine with no lag no issues no nothing, for hours on end. I play this game for two minutes it freezes, it logs me off with 90000 message, you can't see anything during fights or battles. I play on slim version of ps3 that is kept well and cleaned and has maybe two small games on it with plenty of free space. This game throws me off and on like crazy which makes trying to play an MMO pretty pointless considering you can't start a quest fight or join a dungeon crawl. We'll see what happens after maint. But i won't be paying a monthly fee for it.

In my younger days I broke more playstations and PS2 then I care to count with over use. constant 8, 11, 14, 16 hours playing sessions.

For my current PS3 (a slim line) I noticed it would sometimes over heat if I played for too long, but as well as that the fan at the back would really only blow hot air right onto the back wall; and the heat wasn't really being expelled from the area.

then I just turned it sideways, as in, the side of the console now faces the wall and the back of the console faces out into the room on the shelf it sits on.
Now it never over heats.


It goes without saying that you should regularly clean the vents. to stop your console getting encrusted with a fluffy, quilt-like layer of dust.

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I can run any other game fine with no lag no issues no nothing, for hours on end. I play this game for two minutes it freezes, it logs me off with 90000 message, you can't see anything during fights or battles. I play on slim version of ps3 that is kept well and cleaned and has maybe two small games on it with plenty of free space. This game throws me off and on like crazy which makes trying to play an MMO pretty pointless considering you can't start a quest fight or join a dungeon crawl. We'll see what happens after maint. But i won't be paying a monthly fee for it.

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This sounds more like network issues than PS3 issues. Especially since it doesn't seem that every person with a PS3 is getting the same errors. Maybe make sure your playing on a wired connection if it all possible and check your router settings.

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Originally Posted by Ryuuketzu

Im currently posting this thread so others dont have there PS3 crash and no longer start like mine did! I have several friends who say there PS3 freezes from overheating while playing the game! I have had this game for 2 weeks now and it has killed my PS3 and it will no longer turn on! If you do not wish this to happen to you dont but this game for it will overheat your processor and kill your PS3!

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All I can say is I have this for the PS3. I've had it running constantly for a dozen hours or more. The fan kicks into high, but there's been no other difficulties. Does your PS3 have sufficient ventilation where you've put it?

As a PS3 user I can admit that this game has no future on this console. The PS4 should be a sigh of relief and address some of the most concerning hardware and performance issues, such as the pop-in for players in highly-populated areas as well as monsters disappearing & reappearing... Far from ideal.
I can only hope that it is early next year that they will release the game for the PS4 as I cannot bear to wait much longer with little efficient ways to level with FATEs being taken out of the question.

Sometimes investing a few quid for some new thermal heat paste can pay dividends tbh....

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Sometimes investing a few quid for some new thermal heat paste can pay dividends tbh....

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If you open the PS3 it voids any current or future warrenty that you would have on the console, I don't think it's wise to do it anyway... These machines are not supposed to be opened unless you exactly know what you're doing because they're not meant to be highly customisable; they are of similar fixed layout of hardware a laptop has.

If someone has a PS3 Slim or a Super Slim then it's highly unlikely given a warm room temperature, that a PS3 would overheat. If one of those consoles gets too hot the system automatically switches itself off. I could only imagine that the reason a PS3 overheats is due to placement or having upgraded the HDD to a higher speed, which is not recommended by Sony.

Ultimately if someone has the very first PS3 (fat) then, yeah... Those things are extremely prone to failure since Sony had not invested in many fail-safes then and a lot were being sent back during the time shortly after release due to overheating.

Mine is still going strong. Out of the thousands of ppl playing om ps3 such a small number of problems tells me it has less to do with the game and more to do with the system/ owner

Fortunately I've never been unlucky enough to have a PS3 fail on me, but I did have a corrupted HDD once and that just required a simple replacement, It really had nothing to do with the console.
I have always looked after them well and the PS3 I have now, which is the Slim that I got in 2009 is still working ordinarily today.

OP, you made two threads of the exact same thing, but in both threads you neglected to mention the state you were playing the PS3. Sure FFXIV: ARR was the game you were playing when your PS3 died, but was it true culprit for the demise of your PS3?
There are other factors that could have been leading up to the demise of your PS3, and FFXIV was the trigger:

Are you giving adequate ventilation to your PS3? If there's not enough airflow due to placing your PS3 in an enclosed space, placing the back of your PS3 up against a wall or case, guess what happens? That air that is ventilating is being pushed back into your PS3 causing overheating issues.

How dusty is your PS3? Have you been cleaning it regularly? Are you playing in an area where dust accumulates a lot (I.e: Playing in a carpeted area.)?

What is the model make of your PS3? Is it the Phat PS3? If it is, then it's a known issue that those models have a moderate fail rate due to faulty hardware/poor manufacturing (mainly bad soldering). Has your PS3 been freezing lately up until that point? What about other games you play, did you have any other issues playing other games?

How much HDD space did you have when you installed FFXIV?

What are your playing habits? How often have you been playing FFXIV at one time? How often do you use your PS3?

Were your fans roaring when playing other games besides FFXIV? There's a chance that could've been a warning sign that your PS3 was about to bite the dust (not always, but probable).

I know many people playing the PS3 version of FFXIV and none of them had the issue you had. I've also had many friends who had a PHAT PS3 who had the same issue you had, except they were playing other games. I've also heard some of my friends who had their PS3 poorly ventilated (both Slim and Phat) and fell into the same issue you had, except with guess what? Other games.

This is very concerning.

Everyone always says that this happens because your PS3 is at the end of its life, but I bought my PS3 3 days before early access began, this thing is only a month old. I bought my PS3 specifically for this game (a 250gb super slim). Every time that it happens the display freezes but I can still hear ambient noises and the last time it happened I could even hear the music.

At first I thought it was due to overheating or something so I moved it to a better location and put a fan by it to push the hot air away. Still froze.
Just a few minutes ago I had just logged in and played for maybe 20 minutes when I froze again. The PS3 wasn't even close to warm.

So I either bought a messed up console, or the game has some serious issues on PS3. I have no idea which one it is.

Get an Air con and direct it to your ps3. my ps3 is working like charm! No issue... =D

New Arctic Silver thermal paste, New fan with more blades, New PSU = Happy PS3. I don't have any issues with my console, but then again, I've upgraded it.

I have the older 2nd generation fat PS3, and has been running fine, alittle laggy in large fates and when approaching NPC quests where there are other NPC involved, and like chocobos pop in a few seconds later :( kinda ruins the immersion for me.
Has never locked up until last night. I assume it was how the auto logoff feature was implemented, cause I come back from a short trip to the store, while i was waiting for my party to all get together (probably 30minutes or so) and the sound is on, im in the same spot when i left, but the controller wont respond, turn it back on it blinks and shuts off. Keyboard wont respond. I had to force shut down the PS3 :( Whats funny is, normally when that happens, you get that file system check and have to wait 10minutes, but this rebooted normally. Well I atleast hope the game isnt killing my PS3, but you maybe right.

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This is very concerning.

Everyone always says that this happens because your PS3 is at the end of its life, but I bought my PS3 3 days before early access began, this thing is only a month old. I bought my PS3 specifically for this game (a 250gb super slim). Every time that it happens the display freezes but I can still hear ambient noises and the last time it happened I could even hear the music.

At first I thought it was due to overheating or something so I moved it to a better location and put a fan by it to push the hot air away. Still froze.
Just a few minutes ago I had just logged in and played for maybe 20 minutes when I froze again. The PS3 wasn't even close to warm.

So I either bought a messed up console, or the game has some serious issues on PS3. I have no idea which one it is.

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Hmm, I just posted then read your post. Mine did the same thing last night, but I was able to play a couple hours after I was forced to reboot it. Ive played for many hours straight in the previous days with no problem. I thought mine was cause I left it and it tried to auto log me out. Has yours froze prior to last night and the recent updates?

I wonder if they are rushing so much to try and fix all the issues they are not doing enough quality checks on their updates.