Quote Originally Posted by DoubleT View Post
MS allowed XI to be played with no monthly fee, an then afterwards said that they would never allow another company to do the same thing, an SE did not agree. Hence the reason we are allowed the work around on ps3/4 an not required to have psn+.
First, if I recall correctly, FFXI on XBOX 260 doesn't even use the XBOX servers and such for playing and updates, but is handle outside/around the system. This means MS have no control over updates on FFXI.
Secondly, all free-to-play games like DC online or warframe and FFXIV doesn't require it either on PS4(Think this counts for all MMOs on PS4)
One of the reasons for this is that updates would normally have to be checked by Sony's own team before they are uploaded to the system, for a MMO like FFXIV this would delay the update for some time and also quick fixes would take longer and each update would cost money. By doing this outside the system they can avoid these problems.