I have been playing this game for years but have never tried to coordinate creating a character with a friend on PS4. Here is a time line outlining an extremely frustrating experience.

1. I buy girl friend FFXIV on PS4. I am then constantly hammered with the "Patch cannot be downloaded". Google shows that this is a well documented issue. Considering that my FFXIV on PC updates just fine, and the PS4 is on the same network (and never had issues). Takes 2 days for the patch to finally work.

2. Girl friend cannot create a character on my server, so I figure XIV is a great game and I'll just pay for a transfer to hers. I pay a transfer.

3. Girl friend wants to remake character...finds out the server I transferred to is now locked.

This is incredibly frustrating. I've paid $19.99 + $14.99 + $18.99 and have to pay another $18.99 to transfer again...?