14 DAY TRIAL // A class action suit was filed against Sony and Square Enix by a Daniel Wolf from San Diego, California, on the 2nd of June, 2010. The plaintiff claims that his PlayStation 3 has been broken by the copy of Final Fantasy XIII he bought and that he is not the only one in this situation, as many other users have suffered from this bug. The filing is saying that the PS3 consoles freeze and become totally and permanently inoperable.
Moreover, Wolf is accusing Sony and Square Enix that they know about this problem, but that they just won’t do anything about it, preferring to blame each other and refuse to fix any of the broken PlayStation 3s instead. Sony is saying that the game disc contains a glitch that causes the freezes, but Square Enix claims that they occur because of a problem in the console's BluRay drive. No comments have been issued by Sony or Square Enix about the lawsuit.
Wolf demands five million dollars in damages. Being a class action suit, the money will be divided among those who chose to join forces with him. These freezes have been reported for some time, mostly by YouTube users. For example, user mamotz reports that, “I was very excited to deprive myself of sleep when I got this game but I to my dismay, the game freezes just early on the game.”
“I tried to do it the 2nd time and it still hanged,” he continues to write. “So i decided to record it on my 3rd try. Yes, confirmed that Final Fantasy 13 Freeze/Hangs on my PS3. I tried pressing any buttons on the controller but I guess it really froze as even the XMB doesn't show up. even the PS3 doesn't blink at all. Sigh.” Other users claim that the game overheats Sony's console and breaks it, pointing the finger at the Final Fantasy XIII developer as the guilty party in this scandal.