Last edited by Anela; 03-22-2011 at 02:36 PM. Reason: update data
"I refuse to be limited by conventional thinking."
As has been said above, we have no reason to believe that SE itself or the physical location of the servers are subject to blackouts (the Tokyo wards proper have been left immune), but there is an overall power shortage yet. That is, demand is greater than supply... generally 0900 to 2200 on weekdays, thus they have the rolling blackouts to balance it out.
Reading releases from Tepco, their production capacity seems to go up a little more every day, so there's obvious progress, but good grief people... how soulless do you have to be to demand that power-munching dedicated MMO servers be kept running in the face of people needing home heating being forced to darkness and with a need to reduce power demand per serious nuclear reactor incidents?
Even when things turn back on, I'm personally going to feel a bit awkward playing until it's been established that all Tepco customers are back on the grid and no one is being cut off for any reason whatsoever.
I am demanding nothing, and would have no problem if the game was kept off-line if it is still needed. The needs of the Japanese people comes first right now.
I was just reporting what I found. It appears that the servers have been kept on, most likely in a form of low power hibernation, the whole time. This makes very good sense.
I for one, am just wondering when on March 22nd JST, they are going to update us on the situation. Almost 3pm there... *shrug*
"I refuse to be limited by conventional thinking."
I had my doubts about the new 22 date. I'm not surprised at all. I also have no doubt SE has caused more damage to the Final Fantasy online brand by these events and subsequent business decisions.
The entire shutdown of all worlds could have been averted with a little diversity and intelligence in network implementation.
Cost is a non issue, I pay the same as a Japanese player to play the game, but I get far less play time because all scheduled maintenance favors JST.
Furthermore, we North Americans, in fact already pay more for a lesser service, as our pings to any and all of these world servers are terrible at best.
SE is now a charitable organization and monthly fees should be a tax write off.
This forum is 3 years too late ...
Case in point. People are waking up from the FF fixation and are adventuring in the real world again. Many other will follow and leave Vana'diel child's play behind, I have no doubt at all.
The FFXI disclaimer has always made me laugh, SE says they never wanted us to neglect our family, our work, our, RL? I have never believe this. This is not really SE's business position, only rather required legal innuendo.
I feel another world merge coming on... Too bad, WoW (World of Warcraft) has never experienced any need thus far perform world merges, way to go Blizzard Entertainment?!?
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"I refuse to be limited by conventional thinking."
That would just be retarded if those guys decide to ramp up their plants and SE still have server off line. If that was the case and SE took the net profits from subscription fees to help with with relief efforts their 100 yen megwatt/hour would be more efficient than those company.
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