Unfun fact: PSN is always down. EVERY. DAMN. DAY.

[VoltaAsura]

https://twitter.com/LizardPhoenix/st...27627108917250

[Vondoomervil]

Never have issues...? Are you sure you're connected to the internet?

[nintendo414]

weird, I've been playing all day and had no problems then again I'm on ps3 so who knows.

[KitanaiKoneko]

this solution will work for some people. but it wont work for quite a lot of them and shouldnt be nessicary.

Preeeeetty sure if the problem is PSN going down then switching to PC will 100% solve the problem. Since PC doesn't rely on PSN and all that.

[seida]

Solution: switch to PC.

Do people suggest this just to feel superior? Most of us don't have that much spare money just lying around to spend on a pc for the sole purpose of playing FF.

[Buff_Archer]

Just my f'ing luck, several hundred thousand gil worth of crops in my garden I need to log on and water and I can't. What I think needs to change in light of the fact we have external reasons we can't access this reliably is how fast certain crops such as Broombrush die without being watered.

My window for logging on isn't 24/7- I have to work and sleep too you know- and PSN outages can really really f' over gardeners. They need to extend the minimum amount of time crops need to be watered so the fastest dying ones aren't so at risk due to PSN outages.

[Raist]

Do people suggest this just to feel superior? Most of us don't have that much spare money just lying around to spend on a pc for the sole purpose of playing FF.

You can buy a PC/laptop capable of playing this game for less than the cost of a PS4. It runs fine on a system I threw together in 2009...some of which was parts carried over from an older rig that I built in 2006.

You don't need a power-house system to play this game reliably....unless you want to turn on all the eye candy, but even then you can still get by with 2 year old systems. I can play for hours on end with a laptop from 2012 and my framerate stays above 40.

Oh and as for the controller issues, not sure about the OEM PS3/PS4 controllers, but the after market ones are often Plug-and-Play (in Windows 8 at least). I nabbed a wireless Rock Candy PS3 knock off (the ones with a USB dongle, takes batteries) for $20. Before that, I used a $15 Snakebyte USB corded PC PS3 knock-off for YEARS in XI and almost a year in XIV before the cord started shorting out. No special drivers were ever needed to use it even in XP.

You really don't need to throw a lot of money into a system for this game. Chances are, you may be able to use one you already have (though, you may need to upgrade a graphics card or something, depends on what you actually have).

[Abbul_Stonecleaver]

I still can't get in and our raid time was scheduled to start 30 minutes or so ago. And we're at a crucial point of learning in T13 ;_;

[Kyomagi]

Do people suggest this just to feel superior? Most of us don't have that much spare money just lying around to spend on a pc for the sole purpose of playing FF.

But you bought a ps4 for $400+. Don't want to sound mean or entitled but leaving the ps4 for a pc was the best thing I've done. I missed the big outage and now this one along with psn maint.

I if you have a microcenter around you can build a decent build for around $450. My build cost me $400 and I run on high and I get 50+ fps. Gaming Rigs are not that much to build anymore

[Lexia]

I logged onto the game and someone in FC was talking about how another couldn't log on because of PSN being down and I was like really? I was like just logged on like 20 minutes ago and had no trouble getting on.