Minimise the downtime please.

[Naturebeckles]

Its not that difficult... take ur 12.95 X 500k suscribers (6mil 475k) for one month... and MOVE THE DAMN SERVER! EASY ! DONE!

In a disaster situation, they don't have to physically move the servers. They have backup servers or can purchase them and it's matter of moving all the information to the new servers. Which, if they have a backup plan in place for such disasters, all the information they currently have on the shut down servers is backed up anyway.

[Meril]

ty nature, finally some intelligent insight. makes sense and will most likey be the truth. then it will shut these half-breeds UP FOR GOOD!

[Meril]

AGAIN I WILL SAY IT! $ TALKS

[Meril]

people saying " physically move things " are they *** retarded?????

[HFX7686]

In a disaster situation, they don't have to physically move the servers. They have backup servers or can purchase them and it's matter of moving all the information to the new servers. Which, if they have a backup plan in place for such disasters, all the information they currently have on the shut down servers is backed up anyway.

Are you that hard up for a FF11 fix? It'll be a week or a few weeks. There are other video games. Play them instead. Stop being insensitive and alarmist.

[Birdkiller]

Aren't the reactors going into meltdown due to damage from the earthquakes as well as the power demand? If that's the case, if they put the servers back up and we were playing the game, wouldn't we only be aiding the meltdown of said nuclear power plants? :<

[HFX7686]

Actually, she's spreading sensationalism, alarm, and anger. We can live without FF11 for a few weeks. It won't kill any of us.

[Qtipus]

All im hearing is a bunch of cry babies.

That or a couple people very effective at trolling.

[CrystalWeapon]

You keep arguing money but if they were not previously set up it would cost a huge amount to even just rent servers in another location for the 24 that we have in place now in Japan as a short time fix for the players not affected.

[Naturebeckles]

There is a reason that person is on my ignore list, Meril. I suggest you do the same. I'm hoping for the best too. Aside from the horrible disaster over there, the original poster does, in fact, bring up a lot of valid points. And if SE wants to save themselves financially, they would be working on a contingency plan as we speak to get things up and running again. As one of my friends said (heartless, I know, but true and funny), the people whining about not playing aren't the people you want to ban from the game. It's the people who tell us whiners off and go play other games. Because at least SE can guarantee that us "whiners" will be coming back to play!