Quote Originally Posted by Tint View Post
once you are online you can instead of shutting the game off just logging off and going back to the main menu (the menu before you choose your character, where the opening cutscene start after a while) and without closing the game turning the PS4 into standby-mode (not shutting the PS4 completely off).

when you then start the console again you are still in the main-menu of FF14 and you avoid the psn-check at the start of the launcher.

but warning: you are also avoiding the whole logging-in process wich includes your password.
And don't forget to config your PS4 as your primary PS4