Psn Maint Hate

[AylmerOfFamfrit]

How does psn manage to cause several hours of technical malfunction from a 20 min maintenance? It seems to be commonplace work this company. I'm about to main pc same shoot my ps with a shotgun.

[Tigerlilley]

The trick is never log off. The game only needs to check in with PSN once when it starts up. After than, if psn goes down but if you're still logged in you'll be fine.

That's what I used to do on my PS4. It lasted a year and a bit before it started sounding like a jet engine on collision course. Good luck.

[Aomine1992]

Yea I started looking at PCs lol this PSN crap is annoying

[MyaValentine]

beenplaying this game since launch on ps4, I've never had a login issue because psn neither my ps4 sounds like a jet engine I keep hearing few people saying they have problem because of psn but I've never had this happened to me. maybe it's some of you only?

[Tigerlilley]

Yea I started looking at PCs lol this PSN crap is annoying

Honestly the only reason I switched was because my ps4 was dying a slow and drawn out death. Had to spend the money on something so went with PC. Now I have a ping reducer and a way to see my own dps so I can never go back. My ps4 controllers work fine on pc too so after the initial set up it's not too much different.

I seriously miss the saved files going to cloud that I have with psn+ though that happened in the background with zero effort on my behalf. And miss the onscreen keyboard at times when I'm lazing back and don't wanna sit up to reach my keyboard. But otherwise theyre both pretty much the same.

[Sekkei]

That's the downside of playing this on the PlayStation. Or any online activity really. PSN problems from DDoS to technical issues can last for hours or days and you can't do a thing about it. Wish you could just rely on your internet connection for it, but you're stuck with being both that and their end working at the same time.

[Tint]

That's what I used to do on my PS4. It lasted a year and a bit before it started sounding like a jet engine on collision course. Good luck.

uhm, sounds like you let the PS4 running for weeks nonstop?

you can return to the title screen (the menu between launcher and character selection) and put the PS4 into rest mode. this way you are still logged in when you activate the PS4 again, without letting it run for weeks^^

you only have to do the PSN-check again when you have to update the FF14 launcher (or if you want to play any other game than FF14 xD)

[Venoshock]

I never ever ever turned my ps4 off for months on end and now it sounds like a jet engine going full afterburner lol i think it might be dying tbh. I do it to avoid having to log into the crap service that is psn just to play XIV, I normally find myself logged out of it.

You don't need to be signed into psn or have ps+ to play this game.

[Yorha]

It even effected the people who were online since last night.

[ExVex]

As others have previously stated, PSN is only required to open the launcher to check for updates. You can log out after.

Tbh, I didn't even know there was going to be maintenance. Or that there already was maintenance. Or whatever. I'm never awake during those minutes/hours. My connection is totally fine now.

PSN never gave me problems so I'm not sure what everyone else has experienced. I also refuse to leave my PS4 in standby mode for too long, no matter how many people tell me that it was made to stay in standby mode.

The only time I've had FFXIV related issues on the PS4 was when it was forced to shut off (during power outage) and the FFXIV launcher started downloading those 8 hrs of patches all over again. RIP. ｡:ﾟ( ;´∩`; )ﾟ:｡ I'm so happy that bug has been fixed. I used to get so anxious during storms.