Temporary Suspension of the Services Due to an Earthquake

[Mirage]

This will upset a lot of people and i am one of them, hope your feed back center is ready to work double over time.. and i hope when a quake hits North America you shut down the game again just to see the response from are friends over the ocean

Maybe you should try posting again after you know how power conservation works in emergency situations.

[Stromgarde]

This thread makes me disappointed in humanity.

[Gadanae]

What the hell S-E, making Sea only accessible to the JP players?

Before I get flamed for being a horrible, horrible person. I know this is a horrible joke but I still LOL'd. Please don't kill me people, you know you chuckled too.

[ShadowHeart]

I am flip side of coins i feel for the people and the disaster that hit japan and areas. Also thought that North America had servers and databases to keep the servers running though?? Myself have friends in Japan and they play the game to get their mind off the earthquake and the disasters outside I know a lot maybe be sympathetic atm but there are addicts like myself that play this game 12+ hours a day that by the end of the week are going to be ready to quit FFXI for good because no game to play...

[Mirage]

Nope. All the game servers are located in Japan. There might be regional billing and account servers, but you can't play games on those .

[sasaya]

All people looking at here, nice to meet you.
I am a Japanese. 　I am in the stricken area of the big earthquake now.
People learn me in great regret for the cooperation to stopping of the
server by Japanese electricity shortage now.

With all a sole feeling, please watch an original animation of FFXI which I made.
And I ask for mercy to the victim.

EP1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUroyx1ezuc

EP2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KjSj0TCzCc

EP3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxvHZOhWNaE

Final EP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arODrDNcmbQ

I want to have an adventure from now on in all of you and the Vana'diel.^^
Thank you

[hideka]

just to be sure, im not angry i cant play the game or anything of the sort, on the contrary, i just wanted to voice my concerns over, us paying for a service that isnt going to be rendered lol. im really upset over what happened in japan lol, not just some kid QQing because of his service fees. and im actually shocked that theyre not billing us for april. THAT just restored ALL of my faith in SE >_>.... see it was slowly coming back with this new dev team in place, and now that just did it for me.

[AJ_Anyia]

Our thoughts and prayers are with you in this difficult time. I hope that your friends and family are safe and that everything is righted again soon. Much love. Much care. Much hope.

[Akaira]

Thoughts and prayers are with Japan during this time.

[Gamisra]

This will upset a lot of people and i am one of them, hope your feed back center is ready to work double over time.. and i hope when a quake hits North America you shut down the game again just to see the response from are friends over the ocean

This made me very upset. Look, i know people in america are upset that they can't have a hit of there addiction for a week. but when Katrina hit i don't think people in that disaster were too worried about playing FFXI. It would be nice for us to show some form of condolences to our friends in Japan. At anyrate, for those of you who say "By the end of the week we'll be looking for a new game to play..." ***. You guys have been playing ffxi for many years, and have PROBABLY taken longer breaks from it then a week, and come back. Everyone comes back. Maybe the week will actually do you good and you can go out and play in the snow and get a little sunlight on your vampire like skin, living in your moms basements got going to find you girls! So stop *** about servers being down, when people in Japan can give a *** less of what you think about them turning servers off, when there having a hard enough time keeping food, medical care, and electricity available to them. And yes, if this had happened in america then no the servers would not be off, but the game is NOT centered in AMERICA it's in Japan, [Removed by Moderator according to the FINAL FANTASY XI FORUM Guidelines.]

To Japan, you have my beat wishes, and my $10 a month to the red cross (i wish i could offer more, but money is tight here) If there is any other way to help i'm here for you any way i can. Good luck and may some good come to you in your time of need.