PS3 Freeze Issues.

[Forever4Sakened]

Recently, within the last 2 days and all day today. My system has been crashing out of the blue. I crashed during entering Limsa Lominsa, and wasn't able to log back in because it would freeze in the logging screen. Other times it would freeze inside the Game. Haven't even played the Game today due to the fact I can't be online without it freezing. Sometimes it won't even let me shut off my PS3 normally, so I'm forced to pull the plug.

I'm skeptical that pulling the plug may be bad for my system and the game itself, leading to more Game freezes. But so far I have noticed nothing that could resolve it, and I haven't seen other PS3 players with the same issue.

[Forever4Sakened]

Quick Update: I logged in, froze on loading screen. Tried again, went in, then 20mins froze again. I think I'm going to uncheck my credit card information from automated payments and probably consider this game a loss. I could blame my PS3 for not being a Gaming "PC" but this issue is way overly retarded. Good Luck to everyone, hope this doesn't happen to you.

[wohdin]

I didn't actually think that this would be happening on the PS3 as well. I'm starting to think that all these issues are actually stemming from Limsa Lominsa itself rather than any congestion issues, or if it is congestion, then it's by far the worst there. I'm playing on the PC version and when I spent a very large amount of time in Gridania I only experienced a couple of crashes, but since moving on to Limsa Lominsa, I crash pretty much every other minute I spend in the city. Out on the field, I'm fine, but sometimes I crash as soon as I enter the city from the field... it's pathetic, really.

[ZohnoReecho]

If you hold the 0/I button longer it should make a couple of beeps and shutdown.
About the freezing it's probably your PS3 or a lot of people would complain since the hardware is pretty much the same.

It might be overheating. Did you try do undust it a bit? Maybe with a vacuum cleaner at not too high speed.

[Bahd_Monkey]

Sometimes it won't even let me shut off my PS3 normally, so I'm forced to pull the plug.

I'm skeptical that pulling the plug may be bad for my system and the game itself, leading to more Game freezes. But so far I have noticed nothing that could resolve it, and I haven't seen other PS3 players with the same issue.

You should make backups of all of your game saves RIGHT NOW, either to an external device or PS+ cloud. It could just be a bug in ARR, but it could equally be a problem with your PS3 and I'd hate for you to lose all of your game data if your PS3 gets fried.

[TKR1991]

I've had this a few times today too. Been getting alot of error 9000's and freezing. Also takes about 3 mins for my character to load.

Didn't play yesterday but seems to fit in with your timescale too

[Eyolf]

I've had this same issue the past couple days. Usually, ps3 won't freeze for hours if at all but the past couple days my system freezes every 30-60 min. Plus, I have this dark/black screen bug that they haven't worked out and now that I've progressed further in the game, I can't just fake my way through a dungeon and hope my screen doesn't black out on me during boss fights...I'm with the OP on this one. I will be turning off my monthly renewal if nothing is done to address these types of issues. They are game breaking and infuriating to say the least.

[Eclair_Xysha]

Had that issue yesterday, and before that the game would crash? Like it would log me out, out of the blue, and take me back to psn home screen.

[Vezzian]

My PS3 froze yesterday for the first time playing FFXIV.
I was able to log right back in and continue playing the rest of the night without issues.

However, I used to play DCUO and that game froze my PS3 (and pretty much everyone else's too) on a daily basis, sometimes more than once.

I'm not too concerned at this time about one freeze lol.

[Forever4Sakened]

I actually tried to log in today at multiple intervals. In the morning around 10am, froze on log-in screen. Then I tried around 4pm, same issue. And right now, I've tried logging in again, have the same issue. It's not an overheating issue as I haven't played my PS3 long enough for it to over-heat, unless it's overheating within a 5minute span of being on. I think I will try the dusting off advice.. But like someone mentioned perhaps it's Lominsa? Character I'm attempting to log into is stuck in Lominsa as we speak, haven't been able to move him since last time, I'll log into a character in another city on another server later on to see if the issue persists onto that character. I'm too busy with life to play 24/7, but I don't mind logging in to cap my 300/300 tomes a week, then not doing so till the following week. It saddens me that I may not be able to log in again till I either repair(?) my PS3 or move on to another platform. BTW, I've been frozen on the loading screen for 20mins now lol.