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

[Wildsprite]

When you buy a console, you know that you are going to be bound by that console's rules. The PlayStation, just like the Xbox and the Wii U, requires you to be connected to their specific network. If that network goes down, you don't get to play online. If you don't want to play by those rules, then play on a PC. Whether or not you can afford such a PC is nobody's problem but yours, and nobody, least of all Square Enix, owes you anything.

thank you Captain Obvious.

[Zaft]

thank you Captain Obvious.

That's what I'm here for.

[Black91CRX]

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.

My PC (was $350 new) is about 2 years old and it barely bench-marked 1800. I'd rather play the game on a PS3 lol.

[KitanaiKoneko]

My PC (was $350 new) is about 2 years old and it barely bench-marked 1800. I'd rather play the game on a PS3 lol.

Just because you paid $350 for it, doesn't mean that something that is $400 isn't going to be any better.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/y8WxNG

$412. No having to deal with PSN. Hook it up to your TV with a controller if you want to. And since its a PC, you can use it for anything else you would use a PC for.

[Cutie_McSnuggles]

I actually already own a PC that could run FFXIV just as well if not better then my PS4. But in my mind PCs are only for casual gaming. Consoles are for real gaming. It's just the way I am. If you feel the other way around then fine. But stop trying to tell people that they should be doing things your way.

please don't turn this into that kind of argument. that kind of thing annoys me. consoles are always limited, always will be. sure they are more advanced now but look at the technology used. both the PS4 and the XB1 use APUs that by the time the systems were released were already behind last years models.

I'm not trying to say anything negative about PC gamers. I'm trying to say we all game differently.

[Wildsprite]

But in my mind PCs are only for casual gaming. Consoles are for real gaming.

please don't turn this into that kind of argument. that kind of thing annoys me. consoles are always limited, always will be. sure they are more advanced now but look at the technology used. both the PS4 and the XB1 use APUs that by the time the systems were released were already behind last years models.

[Faelandaea]

It's your ISP, dude. You get what you pay for.

[seida]

So many assumptions in this thread. That we bought our ps4s solo. That we all live in America and pay American prices. That we didn't get a ps4 because of other games too. That we all have physical space for a pc setup.

I already have a laptop for my Internet and everyday needs, not going to waste money on a pc I literally need for nothing except to avoid the occasional psn outage.

The POINT of this thread is that psn downtime shouldn't need to affect ffxiv. Yes, it's Sony's issue. But the game doesn't use Sony's servers. They could just perform authentication once a week or something.

[Black91CRX]

Just because you paid $350 for it, doesn't mean that something that is $400 isn't going to be any better.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/y8WxNG

$412. No having to deal with PSN. Hook it up to your TV with a controller if you want to. And since its a PC, you can use it for anything else you would use a PC for.

Oh look, another PC suggestion where you have to BUILD it AND buy Windows. So chuck that $412 figure. Only something pre-built is a fair comparison.

[aisustrong]

Its the lizard squad they hacked PSN and Xbox Live

script kiddies are not hackers and ddos isn't hacking