Help me understand why PSN is needed to play this game.

[TeaTimeBear]

The reason FFXIV isn't on the Xbox platform is old news... http://www.destructoid.com/square-ex...x-257794.phtml

& Tea time bear needs a time out. Or to switch to an herbal tea. May I recommend Tension Tamer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq4Phcjy4o4

Lol for what? For typing calm? I know that emotion gets lost in translation but come on... I'm not even bringing up my inability to play either.

[Tashigi]

Buy the game on PC and you don't have to worry about this.

As for PC games not having this issue... Steam and Origin work similarly...either go down and games requiring either are restricted or don't work at all. Unless that's changed recently, but I'm 99% sure it has not...

If you've already activated your game, you can start Steam in offline mode and you're good to go.
So nope, you can bypass any maintenance on Steam if you want to.

[Huntington]

I'm sorry that this had to happen right on your day off when you had time to play. :/ I didn't get a response when I posted this, so I'll post again.



It's why when you play the game your SE ID is already there for you

That could be one reason, albeit one that doesn't make any sense to me, but whatever.
Linking them should just be for an easy exchange of information that is like an internet cookie. It retains some info so that future uses of something is easier because your information was retained to it.
I still can't fathom why I can't play a separate "thing", because I'm honestly at a lack of a better descriptive for this anymore, when PSN can be naturally free, while XIV is hosted elsewhere away from Sony, but can't be played if PSN goes down.

[kidvideo]

Lol for what? For typing calm? I know that emotion gets lost in translation but come on... I'm not even bringing up my inability to play either.

Playstation just went live on twitch, so... twitch plays PSN Maintenance, confirmed.

[Huntington]

Playstation just went live on twitch, so... twitch plays PSN Maintenance, confirmed.

I'm not trying to side with any one person here, but lol if that's true.

[ValVae]

You having a day off the day of maintenance to fix problems from a DDoS attack is nothing but bad luck. Why you decided to throw a fit on the forums is beyond me.

To answer your question though, any platform is going to require maintenance here and there. PC's have an easier way around it through things like windows updates/driver updates/etc. that can be done manually and at any point in time (unless for some reason your IP is just trash). Consoles are just a little more unreliable because the actual connection to the internet has to be done through PSN/Xbox Live. Every person who buys a console should have already taken this into consideration before the purchase.

[Lithera]

Not sure how you were playing BF4 considering there's a handful of "WHy cant I play?" threads on the Battlefield boards. Might be that yours is a physical copy of the game and not digital? If PSN is down digitally downloaded games won't work properly because the lack of physical media means there's no choice but for PSN to verify the licence for the game on your account. This holds true for PS3 and PS4 I believe.

[Huntington]

Not sure how you were playing BF4 considering there's a handful of "WHy cant I play?" threads on the Battlefield boards. Might be that yours is a physical copy of the game and not digital? If PSN is down digitally downloaded games won't work properly because the lack of physical media means there's no choice but for PSN to verify the licence for the game on your account. This holds true for PS3 and PS4 I believe.

Someone else said that was the case in this thread, I'm quoting what they said. They said they were able to play BF4 right now.

[Niwashi]

Your SE account is connected to your psn account. I think when you registered for your SE game on the playstation it "linked" your account to your PSN account. No working PSN, no way to connect to that linked account.

That just pushes the question over to why do we need our SE accounts to be linked to a PSN account in the first place. For PC players, their name and password (and security token if they use one) are enough to identify them to SE's servers. Why should any more authentication than that be required to play the same game from a console? SE can keep track of who has which version of the game and who has a current subscription, just as they do with PC players. There's no reason for Sony to be involved in any of that, and yet, they somehow are anyway. After all, Sony isn't providing any online features here. It's SE that's hosting the game, and our individual ISPs getting us online to be able to reach SE. Sony's just sticking their head in to ask what's up, when it's really none of their business as they aren't involved in providing any of it.

[Huntington]

That just pushes the question over to why do we need our SE accounts to be linked to a PSN account in the first place. For PC players, their name and password (and security token if they use one) are enough to identify them to SE's servers. Why should any more authentication than that be required to play the same game from a console? SE can keep track of who has which version of the game and who has a current subscription, just as they do with PC players. There's no reason for Sony to be involved in any of that, and yet, they somehow are anyway. After all, Sony isn't providing any online features here. It's SE that's hosting the game, and our individual ISPs getting us online to be able to reach SE. Sony's just sticking their head in to ask what's up, when it's really none of their business as they aren't involved in providing any of it.

Pretty much this, you explained it better than I ever did.