Hey, have you ever read something really silly and dumb and kinda just wrote it off like no big deal?
Or in this case kinda got really annoyed by it, like let's say, a class-action law-suit against both Sony and Square-Enix because somebody's PS3 froze while playing it.
 
I mean, that has to be bullshit right? Perhaps you have played, and beaten the game on PS3, and had no problems. I know I've played a bunch of games that apparently spelled death for certain people. I mean, anyone would try to get anything for a buck. Class-action law-suit sounds crazy...
 
So, I haven't been playing Final Fantasy XIII for a few months, I decided to jump back into the fray and loaded it up a few days ago.
 
I knew something was weird when the music stopped playing...
Then the battle kinda just...hanged....after I finished a fight without any battle results.
Really freaking strange.
 
So I reset the machine, and kinda got a bit concerned that the PS3 now couldn't see the Final Fantasy XIII disk.
I stuck in another disk, can't read that either.
I've tried every disk I can think of, doesn't read anything.
 
I did a database recovery...nothing. I'm not sure I want to do a system factory restore, because I don't want to lose all my save data.
 
I remembered that 'stupid' article I wrote off several weeks ago and I decided to research the problem.
I came across this video and I started feeling really ridiculous a few minutes in: This is an actual problem people.
 

I suddenly lost any interest in playing FFXIII after that.

I have no problems.

This makes me glad that i got the 360 version as i would hate to have this problem

FXIII is well known to destroy consoles. Your PS3 obviously did not complete his L'cie focus.
 
In all seriousnes, I've finished FF13 on my PS3 and didn't have a single technical problem whatsoever.

Wait, is it Sony's problem or Square's problem? I've the 360 version, and it works perfectly.

" Wait, is it Sony's problem or Square's problem? I've the 360 version, and it works perfectly. "

I think one of Joystiq's writers had a PS3 freezing while playing FFXIII.

I honestly doubt the game just killed your PS3. Its just like the MW2 scenario where millions of copies were sold and a number of people had their consoles crashed when they were playing it. Mind you that some people play MW2 for hours, this can be the same case with FFXIII considering its length (though to be honest that would a borefest to me... I still need to finish the game).

It's probably an act of mercy. I am on my second stretch of FFXIII gaming, trying desperately to finish it but that game frustrates me to no end.

" FXIII is well known to destroy consoles. Your PS3 obviously did not complete his L'cie focus.

" @Video_Game_King said:

" Wait, is it Sony's problem or Square's problem? I've the 360 version, and it works perfectly. "

Well I've got the PS3 version and it works perfectly (for me) "

It's probally too graphically demanding on the ps3's meager 7800GTX 256mb gpu. It overheats, that's why you get freezing. Then when you shut it off from the back of the console, you fry your blue ray lazer. Happens to alot of ppl before as i've remembered, everything from call of duty 4 to gta4. Then you might ask, why doesn't ps3 exclusives freeze? Well it's simply not completely using the gpu. Only for polygons, all those effects are from the cpu, that's why. I mean I was surprised how graphically nice FFXIII looked on the ps3, I thought I was playing a pc game for a second. Also another thing about these games freezing is ppl spend alot of time on it. Call of duty 4's multiplayer, gta4's story campainge, FFXIII grinding. Not good for the gpu, it's best to take breaks and it affects mostly the 60 gig sku for most of these ppl belive it or not. I seen alot of ps3's break from various forums, it's always 90% the 60 gig ps3 sku. Guess what, that happened to me before.

" FXIII is well known to destroy consoles. Your PS3 obviously did not complete his L'cie focus.  In all seriousnes, I've finished FF13 on my PS3 and didn't have a single technical problem whatsoever. "

Yeah, it seems that the Blu Ray drive on that 60 gig model breaks easily. I had the same happen with MGS4 two years ago, PS3 just wouldn't read discs.

Wow, black people play Square games?? Aaaawww I'm just kidding. Anyways, I haven't had any problems and I have a launch PS3. I've played every single major game and some minor games on this system and haven't had any problems. Even with after that update that made the PS3 freeze after playing Uncharted. So, I'm going to take one for the team. I still have my launch PS3. It has been awhile since I played FF XIII because I've already beaten it. I'm gonna pop it in and see what happens. Wish me luck everyone.

For the multitude of hours its been fine for me, sorry for your loss though buddy  

FFXIII isn't the first game to cause the PS3 to brick. 

Are we sure this isn't just a case of  a lot of people playing the game, and ps3's breaking naturally? 
 
More people playing a game = more chances of the console breaking whilst playing it. This happens for every big game it seems. I'm willing to bet all this kerfuffle with  FF13 is no different

Gears of War killed my PS3
 
naaaaw just kidding :D

" Are we sure this isn't just a case of  a lot of people playing the game, and ps3's breaking naturally?  More people playing a game = more chances of the console breaking whilst playing it. This happens for every big game it seems. I'm willing to bet all this kerfuffle with  FF13 is no different "

wow.. yeah, that isn't going to work out for them, my copy of ff13 was fine. Why is it everyone's solution to things is to file a suit because something dosen't go right for them.. *sigh*

" @Catolf:  because this is the age of the internet and self-entitlement precedes everything else?  this is why you don't play FF13. Not only it's bad (no, really!) it also kills your PS3. "

" @vidiot: You didn't have a warranty? "

wow.. thats something to think about when your machine get's messed up. I don't have too many saves on my Ps3 but where do you put the data? On a SD card or something?

Hm...so I bought Final Fantasy XIII for $20 at Best Buy, so now I'm concerned I might suffer from this freezing issue. I have a PS3 Slim if that somehow makes a difference.

" Hm...so I bought Final Fantasy XIII for $20 at Best Buy, so now I'm concerned I might suffer from this freezing issue. I have a PS3 Slim if that somehow makes a difference. "

" @Apathylad said:

" Hm...so I bought Final Fantasy XIII for $20 at Best Buy, so now I'm concerned I might suffer from this freezing issue. I have a PS3 Slim if that somehow makes a difference. "

His PS3 was the phat and I believe this would be a phat exclusive issue like the whole apocolyps3 thing was. "

so, i boughed PS3 120 Gt Slim ..... so, i was going to buy FF XIII because im a huge fan of FF, but after reading this, i dont know should i buy this game? 
 
destroing my ps will be the end of my life...hahah. 
 
well someone could tell opinion?