As it is right now, there are issues with PSN. They are experiencing "difficulties". Not for the first time and surely not for the last time. And with it, no chance of playing FFXIV right now.
Now, I understand we pay PSN a fee for their online services such as streaming, voice chat, uploading on social media and other minor features. And apparently we will pay more next year. Great.
PSN, just like XBox live, has been DDOS's a few times, and hackers brought the service down for days, rendering us unable to connect to FFXIV.

My main complaints are:
Why do we have to pay an extra fee to PSN only to use our own internet connection and play FFXIV? Why can't we play when clearly our connection is running but not PSN? Why are we not getting a discount on our subscription of FFXIV?

I can understand that I can't stream or upload anything, or even chat with my PSN friends when the service is down, that is logical, but come on! Can't use my own internet to play FFXIV because it's linked to PSN and has to go trough their server?

What kind of lame deal have you given us SE?