I've been playing FFXIV for almost 2 years. And I'm happy to say that compared to other MMOs I played, is the best MMo regarding uptime and mantainance in my opinion.

However, being a PS3 and now PS4 player, in the last 2 years PSN has been down lots and lots of times, and is really troublesome. I was wondering if any member of SquareEnix could tell me if Playstation forces FFXIV to use PSN.

Because it would be ideal to just skip it at all. I found ridiculous the FFXIV being up and people can't play due to PSN. For what? A stupid trophy sync?