What to do while Final Fantasy XI is down.

[Crawlerbasher]

First of all I would like to offer my condolences to those affected by the recent Tsunami and Earthquake.

So the server for playonline and Final Fantasy XI are down.
Which I'm surprised it did not happen sooner.

So what to do in place of Final Fantasy XI?
Post your ideas here.

Well I've got this planed for the coming week/s.

Work on my website.
Use my ps3 to play games rather than a DVD, on-demand TV.
Deep Clean my Room.
Work on some PHP Projects.

[JagerForrester]

Let's just say I have a "To Do" list that never runs out of things to do

[Mirage]

I was thinking of trying out another MMO which has got a free trial, but I don't know which ones there are.

[Zazhi]

Personally, I don't think they should have shut the servers down. Call me insensitive, but tragedies happen every day yet we all ignore them and spend our time complaining that we can't get the empress hairpin to drop. If the Japanese can't be disciplined enough to conserve their own electricity, why should we have to suffer for it? That is something I'd expect from my fellow Americans, not a supposedly smarter society like the Japanese. If SE really wanted to prevent people logging on from Japan, it seems like they could block certain IP addresses or something.

A whole week. I might have to do something drastic... like omg read a book or something!

[Alkalinehoe]

on-demand TV.
Deep Clean my Room.


Pretty much this, except replace on demand tv with Netflix and add some video gaming.

[Unaisis]

What to do while Final Fantasy XI is down.

Wait... o.o

[Canadian]

Play some pokémon White or Black! I'm playing Golden Sun right now on DS... good game but the cutscenes are far too long. :(

[Mirage]

Personally, I don't think they should have shut the servers down. Call me insensitive, but tragedies happen every day yet we all ignore them and spend our time complaining that we can't get the empress hairpin to drop. If the Japanese can't be disciplined enough to conserve their own electricity, why should we have to suffer for it? That is something I'd expect from my fellow Americans, not a supposedly smarter society like the Japanese. If SE really wanted to prevent people logging on from Japan, it seems like they could block certain IP addresses or something.

A whole week. I might have to do something drastic... like omg read a book or something!

I don't think you're understanding the entire issue here. Japan lost two nuclear reactors, and might also have lost some of the undersea electricity cables from the mainland. Japan is an island nation, it is much harder to import electricity than it is for countries on the mainland. There simply isn't enough electricity produced in japan to keep every company's servers online all the time.

It is not to keep japanese players from playing, it is because SE themselves aren't allocated enough power to keep them running 24/7. Last thing I heard, there were controlled rolling blackouts all over the country, so that everything that wasn't a critical function like a hospital only was given electricity for a certain period per day.

S-E might have enough backup generators to keep a few servers online (such as the web servers and this forum), but probably not enough to keep the dozens of servers that are running FF11 and FF14 online without external power.

This is however off-topic, and the issue has been discussed to death in a number of other threads already.

[Siviard]

I have a 2nd interview for a really good job on Monday or Tuesday, so I have that to look forward to. I may also go and purchase Pokemon Black/White (haven't decided yet) and start working on that too.

I may also goof off on FF13 on the PS3. I've yet to totally fill the Crystarium on my completed game and I'm nowhere close to being able to fight the really cool NMs like that big Cactuar, etc. etc.

[Savannah]

I went bowling today :D

[Canadian]

If I could find my FF12 disc, I'd play that. It's around here somewhere. The highest level I reached was 86, would like to get to 99.

[Amerlyn]

In a new house so plenty to do:
* Check/Repair Wiring
* Yard Work
* Organize and Clean House/Room
* General Maintenance
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Outside of that:
* Go to Movies (Some really good ones out there right now)
* Might play some Perfect World International (Similar to WoW but free w/ Cash Shop)
* 3hr Doctors appointment monday!
* Visit Friends (haven't seen me in about 2months - omg has it been that long since I seen them? FFXI = Addiction)
* Maybe go play some pool with my grandfather.

I'm sure i can stay busy.. or just sleep the days away =p

[Niyah]

A whole week. I might have to do something drastic... like omg read a book or something!

I thought about this too... but im not much of a reader. I baked a dozen blueberry muffins and a dozen banana nut muffins.

[Koroma]

Idk honestly maybe this week will give me a reason to finally finish ff13?

[Draiman]

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm doing this Bear Grylls style

http://i.imgur.com/Eqnzn.jpg

[Vivivivi]

Heh I wandered outside with my dog... kept looking over my shoulder for goblins though.

[Zarchery]

I have plenty of TV to watch. Just got MST3K volume 20, a dozen Rifftrax shorts, and a Roku streaming media player. Also I bought Dragon Quest 6 recently and this is the perfect time to crack it open.

[Enmar]

Well I have a whole lot of Anime and manga to get through. So that should occupy alot of my time. Other than that My whole plan is: Work Work Work then sleep the rest of the day away.

[Burmecia]

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm doing this Bear Grylls style

http://i.imgur.com/Eqnzn.jpg

LOL! The funny thing is I had to turn off my TV just a little while ago, because his show came on and he started doing just that... ._.;;; /shudder

As for me, I have a lot of stuff I'll be doing this week. I'm just waiting for my fiancee to wake up now before I do any of them. ^^

[Zeo]

I went fishing today for the first time in 10 years. As I was pulling up a fish, one of the fishing songs from XI popped into my head. It was a nice diversion from things however. Other than that, I have a few other games in my backlog thanks to FFXI. A friend of mine has been bugging me to play WoW with him, but I never played it past the mid-30s and that was years ago. We shall see.

[Marivell]

humm... play again my good old FFTactics on PS2?
... I hate Delita so much -_-

I also planned to go outside everyday to get some fresh air; spring's almost here so I'll take the bike with me ^^

[Dave_P]

I will be working on my car and hanging out with my girlfriend more. Although I haven't been playing as frequently as I used to, the last couple of days I put some good time in. Good time for a break. :p

[JagerForrester]

I went fishing today for the first time in 10 years. As I was pulling up a fish, one of the fishing songs from XI popped into my head. It was a nice diversion from things.
LOL, oh, I'm sorry for laughing. But it's funny how many of us have FFXI so engraved in our lives, that it follows us into the real world. I worry when withdrawal kicks in.

Looks like today I've done nothing but be in the forums. Eh, Day 1 has been very fun nonetheless.

[Zeo]

Nah, don't be sorry. Oddly enough, I only fished maybe a handful of times in-game. "There is always something there to remind me!"

The last couple hours of uptime were spent with my LS rounding up Briareus pops and getting myself a few helms. We meant to do one more, but one guy with a pop disappeared on us and it got to be around 4AM.

[Danstens]

Diablo II, Pokemon Black... schoolwork...*cough* Secret of Mana (found it for 5 bucks at a pawn shop.) Was nice enough weather today for the wife, dogs, baby-to-be, and me to go for a walk today.

[Crawlerbasher]

Saw your signature Niyah and I liked it so I decided to make a copy of it but in 3D.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_rozUWX09CkM/TX1zzuArEUI/AAAAAAAAEBM/DMOebtOUzrQ/s800/Niyah%20copy.jpg

I'm doing a HD version of it as well so I'll post a link to that once its finished rendering.

[Burmecia]

I went fishing today for the first time in 10 years. As I was pulling up a fish, one of the fishing songs from XI popped into my head. It was a nice diversion from things however. Other than that, I have a few other games in my backlog thanks to FFXI. A friend of mine has been bugging me to play WoW with him, but I never played it past the mid-30s and that was years ago. We shall see.

Oh man that sounds soo fun. ;_; I love fishing and I haven't done it in so long! Too bad everyone I know hates doing it haha...

[Burmecia]

Saw your signature Niyah and I liked it so I decided to make a copy of it but in 3D.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_rozUWX09CkM/TX1zzuArEUI/AAAAAAAAEBM/DMOebtOUzrQ/s800/Niyah%20copy.jpg

I'm doing a HD version of it as well so I'll post a link to that once its finished rendering.

Wow that's neat. ^^ How do you do that?

[Denabond]

I have roughly 5-6 games I haven't beaten yet sitting on my shelf atm. So yeah ill be playing those while FFXI is down. Or waste my time playing Minecraft.

[Crawlerbasher]

Wow that's neat. ^^ How do you do that?

I used 3D Studio Max 2010 (Rendering and such)
FFXI Modelviewer (Viewing the modules and ripping)
Graphics Converter Ver3 (Creating alpha maps from the rip)
Metaseq (Editing to module)
Photoshop CS3 (for the name)

Got tones of this sort of stuff here https://picasaweb.google.com/crawlerbasher
This is one of my hobbies and something I'm still learning.

[Burmecia]

I used 3D Studio Max 2010 (Rendering and such)
FFXI Modelviewer (Viewing the modules and ripping)
Graphics Converter Ver3 (Creating alpha maps from the rip)
Metaseq (Editing to module)
Photoshop CS3 (for the name)

Got tones of this sort of stuff here https://picasaweb.google.com/crawlerbasher
This is one of my hobbies and something I'm still learning.

Oh okay! That's really cool. :) I love how your character models turn out with such a smooth texture.

[Dragen]

I'm probably going to reread all of Lvl Up again. I do that every few months anyway. :D I gotta decide if I should make a sig picture for here also. ^^

[Vinceroth]

Honestly, I think is crazy to shut down FF11. They could have been smart and setup central centers in each country incase of things like this. Just because 1 country has problems doesn't mean they should make everyone else that plays suffer. Im not saying this to be mean, but we pay them monthly, so they should have come up with ideas, and ways to keep certain areas up and running in events like this. Californa is already home to many other MMO's and they could have, or if they do, set up a server to run there. Its just a suggestion, but SE could get their ducks in a run and figure out a way to keep service to the countless that spend their money on this game. Japan has their problems, and our country has its, but you don't see japan suspending their games bc of katrina, or any other major event that happens over here.

[CrystalWeapon]

I may draw some new comics, brush up on my programming, maybe finally sit down and finish beating some console games, like the new castlevania :3

[MrWigglles]

I went bowling today :D

Bowling!? my condolences.

[MrWigglles]

Honestly, I think is crazy to shut down FF11. They could have been smart and setup central centers in each country incase of things like this. Just because 1 country has problems doesn't mean they should make everyone else that plays suffer. Im not saying this to be mean, but we pay them monthly, so they should have come up with ideas, and ways to keep certain areas up and running in events like this. Californa is already home to many other MMO's and they could have, or if they do, set up a server to run there. Its just a suggestion, but SE could get their ducks in a run and figure out a way to keep service to the countless that spend their money on this game. Japan has their problems, and our country has its, but you don't see japan suspending their games bc of katrina, or any other major event that happens over here.

You're jonesing, I hear you bro.

[JagerForrester]

Honestly, I think is crazy to shut down FF11. They could have been smart and setup central centers in each country incase of things like this. Just because 1 country has problems doesn't mean they should make everyone else that plays suffer. Im not saying this to be mean, but we pay them monthly, so they should have come up with ideas, and ways to keep certain areas up and running in events like this. Californa is already home to many other MMO's and they could have, or if they do, set up a server to run there. Its just a suggestion, but SE could get their ducks in a run and figure out a way to keep service to the countless that spend their money on this game. Japan has their problems, and our country has its, but you don't see japan suspending their games bc of katrina, or any other major event that happens over here.

I'm sure when they are able to recover successfully, they will think of ways to prevent this from happening again. Humans aren't perfect, nor are they prepared for everything.

[Vinceroth]

You're jonesing, I hear you bro.
Not really, just upset something happens there and we pay the price when stuff happens here and they don't even hiccup.

[Vivivivi]

I think I'm going to make a text only version of ffxi MUD style. :)

[Jamesruglia]

First, I have to get off my chest the weird feeling this has; it doesn't feel like a temporary maintanence. I don't have any doubt about the game coming back in a timely fashion, it's just... Loading the POL viewer and then trying to connect feels like nothing's even trying-no morse code-like sounds or anything. It all behaves the way they will twenty or thirty years from now, with the game still ghostily installed on my old computer when the game is down for good, and it(and possibly XIV by then, too)-one of my favorite installments of the entire series-will be the only FF I can't still play.

... But I guess I'll just do what I normally do when not on FF11: School, work, and real life level grinding. And with spring break in effect and minimal extra hours at work, I may gain an entire level this week alone!

[Miiyo]

[QUOTE=Crawlerbasher;17136]I used 3D Studio Max 2010 (Rendering and such)
FFXI Modelviewer (Viewing the modules and ripping)
Graphics Converter Ver3 (Creating alpha maps from the rip)
Metaseq (Editing to module)
Photoshop CS3 (for the name)

brings back memories of never ceasing signature requests.

[Miiyo]

I'm sure when they are able to recover successfully, they will think of ways to prevent this from happening again. Humans aren't perfect, nor are they prepared for everything.

I think they'll find a way to prevent it from happening on FFXIV... only.

[Todo]

I bought Rift.

Yesterday, because I foresaw the servers shutting down. I wanted the game to be installed by the time they did.

Downloading: 8.3 kb/s. Time remaining: 136 hours.

This is after 30 hours.

When I check my connection speed it's supposed to be 4.36mb/s. So something is wrong with Trion. Sad face.

Anyway, in the meantime I'm reading about Japan and making myself depressed.

I'm hoping the death count stays at what is now, and doesn't raise up anymore, but from the reports I'm reading.... It's not looking good at all. And I'm not saying those that did die isn't a loss, it's a ****ing **** ton of people dead and it's a horrible, horrible tragedy. And it makes me teary eyed to read news stories about it. I just really hope it doesn't get worse.

[Yuber]

I know I plan to spend more time on these forums and ffxiah.com, doing housework and of course gaming. Made a New Year's Gaming Resolution to play my backlog (15 games, thanks FFXI...) and I'm still working on Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, with Dragon Age II coming sometime this week from Amazon (more distraction from the backlog!). Spring break is this week as well which means no work (being a substitute teacher is interesting sometimes) so lots of free time and no FFXI. Really though, at least I got my Redemption to level 85 before they shut the servers down.

[Zarchery]

I'm sure when they are able to recover successfully, they will think of ways to prevent this from happening again. Humans aren't perfect, nor are they prepared for everything.

To prevent what? Giant earthquakes? This is the first time this has happened in 7 and a half years, and it happened due to extraordinary circumstances. It doesn't seem like it would be cost effective to set up and run redundant servers to prevent a week or two of total downtime once every 7 and a half years.

[Crawlerbasher]

This is the HD version of the 3D art work I've done.

http://www.mediafire.com/?jh5j25m0ah5g5

Also please keep it on topic.
If you want to bitch about ffxi server been closed down then do it on another post where ppl are already bitching about it.
This is not a post for bitching about ffxi server been closed.

Its about what you doing while its down.

[MrWigglles]

Idk honestly maybe this week will give me a reason to finally finish ff13?

You'll have lots of time to finish ff13, this server shutdown will last much longer than a week.

[Niyah]

Saw your signature Niyah and I liked it so I decided to make a copy of it but in 3D.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_rozUWX09CkM/TX1zzuArEUI/AAAAAAAAEBM/DMOebtOUzrQ/s800/Niyah%20copy.jpg

I'm doing a HD version of it as well so I'll post a link to that once its finished rendering.

OMG that 3D looks so damn hawt!!! I've been wanting to get a new signature or do something to it. I had a friend of mine do the original signature back when ToAU expansion came out and I just knew I was going to level BLU to 75. So he made it for me after SE finally got the AF's for BLU. I'm in the Army and I'm kinda patriotic...hence, Red White and Blue....mages! lol

I'm going to use the new signature if you don't mind at all. You did an awesome job ^^ Thank you very much!

[Crawlerbasher]

OMG that 3D looks so damn hawt!!! I've been wanting to get a new signature or do something to it. I had a friend of mine do the original signature back when ToAU expansion came out and I just knew I was going to level BLU to 75. So he made it for me after SE finally got the AF's for BLU. I'm in the Army and I'm kinda patriotic...hence, Red White and Blue....mages! lol

I'm going to use the new signature if you don't mind at all. You did an awesome job ^^ Thank you very much!

Sure I relay liked you signature and wanted to do it in 3D so its yours.
And if you check the HD version of the art work you can also see it in more detail.

http://www.mediafire.com/?jh5j25m0ah5g5 <--- HD version

[Niyah]

Thanks again Crawlerbasher. The HD version is just as awesome. I wish i knew how to do all this signature stuff myself.

[Unaisis]

I played a few games today @.@ Left for dead 1 and 2.... Metal Gear 4... Borderlands.... i think i might do some RPGs tomorrow XD

[Crawlerbasher]

I end up buying Assassin Creed II from the PSN
Thats kept me busy for a while.

[Abadacchus]

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, SNES

I remember renting it looooooooooooooooooooong ago when I was but a young'n but I never finished it. I have a week or more, it's definitely getting done! lol

[Futan]

Dragon Age 2. After the epicness of the 1st, I'm rather disappointed in the sequel. :(

[Juri_Licious]

Going be playing Pokemon Black Version & Marvel Vs Capcom 3.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

I just finished Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, not sure what to move onto next, might start Disgia 3, or Dawn of Mana

[Pyrogir]

OMG I CAN FINALLY START MINECRAFT!

[Kailea_Nagisa]

OMG I CAN FINALLY START MINECRAFT!

oh yeah I have been wanting to try that myself....but I would really like to try it first before playing for it -.- wish there was a free trial or something.

[Pyrogir]

It looks like it won't be a disappointment. I've been following Deadmau5 when he plays (hell, he even has his own server), and also have a few friends that play as well.

[Pyrogir]

Oh, here's a little sample of what you can do on there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeIIALrEwCQ

[Nichelsyn]

It's quite unpleasant to read some of the selfish comments in regards to how NA players are feeling they are suffering for the tradegy of one Country. Of course Japan did not shut servers down due to Hurricane Katrina. You have to remember they are a much smaller country then we are & Hurricane Katrina effected the South Eastern Coast. In the US almost every state has a major source of energy that it feeds from & I do not think any nuclear reactors exploded when that Hurricane hit (least I think). One thing great about the US is we are actively working on getting people back up an going after a major incident. However in respect to the home nation of the Company who developed XI I would think we as players could put aside our selfish comments & be more understanding to the reason that SE is cooperating with the Japanese Government & is willing to do anything to help. Remember we are not an American Game developed to be played worldwide like wow is (because wow invested the money to hosting servers globally, & I am sure they are paying a nice amount to do so). I am sure it would be very costly for SE a company dependant on serveral franchise for income (and is not as well financed as Activision, remember the company that formerly owned blizzard was bought out by Activision) thought it best not to invest the money on global servers especially during this economy.

To those of you who find it crazy, unfair of SE, & are genuinely upset about not playing a game (in which if you see the positive you are not paying for April's service), I hope you feel better tonight knowing that Thousands of Lives were lost this past week. Several Hundred are still missing & there are Americans with family in Japan who have not even heard a word if their loved ones are ok, but yes SE please keep your servers running so you can playing you MMO & screw saving power to keep the hospitals going, I need abbysea tonight!

[Nichelsyn]

On a side note I am going to be devoting this time to finishing up several games & going back to the brutal killing of Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. New DLC last week, need to give it a test spin. I miss my Hellequin.

[Yuber]

I dunno if it's just my computer Nichelsyn but your sig is stretching way past the border of the forum lol.

[Antonioklaus]

Playing the 7 day Free trial of WoW. I just hope that FFXI isn't more than a week down or I'll get too involved in WoW. While I understand that there is no power to run the servers, it surprises me that there isn't a back up server in the States, considering the amt of players in other countries and the technology out there. If they don't get the Nuclear powerplants under control, they are going to have far greater problems on their hands. Which means we won't be playing XI for a really long time.

[Ritsuka]

Yes but think of this as a business (which it is) there was 1,800 players online that day on my server alone alot of them where japanese so some dont realy care about the power consumtion if they where they wouldn't have been playing the game. We all got billed this month for the game. WE payed for there service which they cut us all off from, Not cus they had too but they wanted too. With out our consent. Those 1,800 paid there bill thats 12.95 from each of those ppl thats up 23310$ Just from my server alone, Not counting the other servers. They should rent a generator not like there useing the power on the server they got alot of money from us and now its like there takeing it and running. Business is Business This might make alot of ppl quit. They should refund our money or move the server's to another place for the time being.

[slakyak]

I'll be spending some quality time with my neglected PS3 and will prob pick up duodecim prologus tomorrow.

I suppose I should really take a look at this "outdoors" that people speak of(!).

[Shinzagoon]

Gonna go trigger grellow on my Microelectronics homework.

[Topdogg]

Playing the 7 day Free trial of WoW. I just hope that FFXI isn't more than a week down or I'll get too involved in WoW. While I understand that there is no power to run the servers, it surprises me that there isn't a back up server in the States, considering the amt of players in other countries and the technology out there. If they don't get the Nuclear powerplants under control, they are going to have far greater problems on their hands. Which means we won't be playing XI for a really long time.
If you get too involved with WoW in just a week, maybe you shouldn't come back to ffxi. :p

[Tezz]

I have 6 months of RIFT, but i'm not quite feeling it. I'm a mage. I planned to take my sweet time with it anyway.

Dissidia will be coming out soon too, i might check that out. At the moment i'm going through Ocarina of Time again in preparation of the June re-release on the 3DS. 25th Anniversary!

Also, now is a good time to set a list of reasonable goals for FF11 once the servers come back up.

[Meyi]

1. Final studies.
2. Make paper cranes... although I'm not sure if there's a way to send them or not.
3. Study Japanese.
4. Sleep!
5. Work on my girlfriend's anniversary gift.

[Meyi]

Yes but think of this as a business (which it is) there was 1,800 players online that day on my server alone alot of them where japanese so some dont realy care about the power consumtion if they where they wouldn't have been playing the game. We all got billed this month for the game. WE payed for there service which they cut us all off from, Not cus they had too but they wanted too. With out our consent. Those 1,800 paid there bill thats 12.95 from each of those ppl thats up 23310$ Just from my server alone, Not counting the other servers. They should rent a generator not like there useing the power on the server they got alot of money from us and now its like there takeing it and running. Business is Business This might make alot of ppl quit. They should refund our money or move the server's to another place for the time being.

Sorry to double post, but we're not being billed all of April to make up for this one week.

Please read the announcements before rudely accusing Square Enix of being money-greedy mongrels. Thank you.

[Wade]

I was checking out a bunch of MMORPG's yesterday, but nothing really stands out. I downloaded the free trial of Guild Wars, you get a whole 10 hours of playtime :( I guess I am spoiled in that FFXI and FFXIV are the only MMO's I have ever played. Everything else out there doesn't seem to compare. I hate to get involved in WoW, because I have a feeling that this shutdown in FFXI will last a lot longer than a week unless they set up some servers elsewhere. If it takes a few months or more, then you could really get involved with something else and may not come back.

[Antonioklaus]

If you get too involved with WoW in just a week, maybe you shouldn't come back to ffxi. :p

That's why so many play WoW, you can get a char and crafts maxed in like 3 days.

[Eiyoko]

What do I have planned? Hmm...

Well, I cosplay a little, so I might get some sewing done. O.o (I'm thinking of making either SMN or BLU AF for a future project...fun stuff!)
I might also work a bit on the book I'm planning on publishing soon. Then there's grocery shopping, heading to the movies (assuming there's anything good in theatres), shopping for computer parts...I'll be busy o_o;

[NrvnqsrKhaos]

I found my old copy of FF8, the computer version.

Yeah. I actually bought that.

So, I figure it'll take me a week or so to get it to work in Windows 7 64-bit. Or I could just go back to grinding Prishe up to a reasonable level in Dissidia 012.

Also, scrounging for food, storing water, and weathering the rolling blackouts that Tokyo is forecasted. Fun stuff!

[Rambus]

see doctors and laywers... kinda do that with ffxi up too though..

play wow.... but see above, sometimes while playing FFXI

post on online sites.. yup you guessed it see lines 1 and 2.

[Fretion]

I went fishing today for the first time in 10 years. As I was pulling up a fish, one of the fishing songs from XI popped into my head. It was a nice diversion from things however. Other than that, I have a few other games in my backlog thanks to FFXI. A friend of mine has been bugging me to play WoW with him, but I never played it past the mid-30s and that was years ago. We shall see.

I start looking around for bombs every time it's foggy out.

I think I'll finally finish the storyline of FF XII.

[Penance]

I took this free time to fix my broken laptop (which i thought had a broken video card but apparently was a vista driver issue). But as my hobbys are mainly FF -> Anime > Manga i am particularly blocked. I did have a look at the Square enix website and browsed around the goodies (I recommend the Cloud Poster, no Aeris or Zack Available :( )
I'm hoping the release for FF Dissidia Duodecim will not be postponed as it will give me something to do, should this downtime be extended.

I also noticed Square Enix has several good Anime's like Pandora Hearts , so I'm going to look further into that as well.

[hadeed]

playing WarHammer Dawn of War 2 Retribution ! RTS game straight action , really cool if you want to waste your time while FF is down ; )

check this out about matches replay with casting

http://www.youtube.com/user/HarlequinCasts

[vyhakeyo]

I'm on a week break this week and had full plans of taking advantage of it to level some low level jobs before the merger of the server, and found my plans changed....So I came up with new plans. I'm teaching my daughter how to cook. We now have a menu made for the whole week of things she wants to try to make. In between that, I think I'll finally finish all my games I never finished. FF12 and 13, Dragon Age Awakenings, Lost Odyssey, and all that rot.

[Kindra]

The dreaded house work, Reading, Picked up Dragon Age 2, finish out FF12, spend time with my man, Watch TV and movies, spend time with my 2 cats and 2 dogs (they are shedding so brushing them has to be done lol) and talking to my family and friends (did that while i played anyway but i like to keep in touch lol). :)

[PandyTwi]

I just got back from an anime convention yesterday and was really surprised to find the game down, lol. I've yet to finally get access to the bonus dungeon in Tales of the Abyss and still working on a secondary file for Tales of Legendia. probably gonna restart my profile for Infinite Undiscovery because I've reached a point I can't pass due to lacking in training my characters. I also have 2 new animes I got from the convention to kill time with (Kanon and Negima).

[SHARP-OAK]

gonna give the kiddies some xtra time prolly watch finding nemo a dozen or so times my daughters fav movie , on a personal note prolly clear the dust off of C&C 4 , maybe even breakdown and buy starcraft2

[kaht]

I played castlevania IV last night, been in the mood to play that a lot lately.

Afterwards, I started up Breath of Fire - I always wanted to play through that game but always ended up quitting an hour or so into it. I think with having this week off I'll finally push through to the end.

[Vivivivi]

I enjoyed the break yesterday but am starting to twitch! I'm afraid goblin's will be following me to work!

[Crawlerbasher]

I was checking out a bunch of MMORPG's yesterday, but nothing really stands out. I downloaded the free trial of Guild Wars, you get a whole 10 hours of playtime :( I guess I am spoiled in that FFXI and FFXIV are the only MMO's I have ever played. Everything else out there doesn't seem to compare. I hate to get involved in WoW, because I have a feeling that this shutdown in FFXI will last a lot longer than a week unless they set up some servers elsewhere. If it takes a few months or more, then you could really get involved with something else and may not come back.

I use to play Asda Stroy, its free to play mmorpg, and is cute to look at.

[Crawlerbasher]

I enjoyed the break yesterday but am starting to twitch! I'm afraid goblin's will be following me to work!


LOL I've got it too.
I had a dream that I was reading the forums and checking out twitter and everyone was saying Jeno was up.
One tweet said J the other E and so on so it spelt something like this

J
E
N
O
U
P

So in the dream I ran up to my pc and turned it out and started to boot up POL.
Then I work up releasing yeh, as if thats going to happen that fast.

[Trendkiller]

I planned on playing XI while waiting at the hospital. Now I get the pleasure of pacing!

[azjazo]

Catch up on drawing comissions I have pending ...

[Detoxy]

1.Buy New Games
2.Go outside maybe?

[Sinthetic]

Well i figured out ill catch some zzz's now Rest my eyes But i end up staying up till 5am this morning and did my current FFXI Sig lmao
this also gives me time to finish My Web Projects so lots Of customers will be happy that they will be getting there Websites sooner XD

[Crawlerbasher]

Just finished the 3D Fan Art Guide to the new design and control pad setting guide for ffxi and ffxiv.

http://www.crawlerbasher.net

I'll be working on more stuff later.

[Sama]

Personally, I don't think they should have shut the servers down. Call me insensitive, but tragedies happen every day yet we all ignore them and spend our time complaining that we can't get the empress hairpin to drop. If the Japanese can't be disciplined enough to conserve their own electricity, why should we have to suffer for it? That is something I'd expect from my fellow Americans, not a supposedly smarter society like the Japanese. If SE really wanted to prevent people logging on from Japan, it seems like they could block certain IP addresses or something.

A whole week. I might have to do something drastic... like omg read a book or something!

After watching the news I'm aware of that Tokyo runs like normal: work, commute, shopping... I myself do not understand how a few servers can help but who knows. I believe SE made the right move I just hope FF won't be down for too long.

[Kei-chan]

Without FFXI, my next week is going to go something like this:

Get 5000 pages of fiction written for my senior seminar in fiction
Play God Eater Burst
Find an internship for the summer/fall


Although to be honest, these are things that I needed to get done anyhow. If nothing else, this gives me a chance to begin a love affair with God Eater now that I can actually read the text.

[Miera]

Staying in the gym longer.
Serfing the web.
Dusting off old games and playing them.
calling friends..
Going to the hair salon and nail salon.


This list goes on.

[Rosalie]

I'm playing FFXIII... lol (time to finish out those last jobs on the crystarium grid!)

[Zumi]

Play other games maybe there is lots of other stuff to do.

[Kimara]

Playing Amnesia dark descent ^^

[Valtre]

Well i have 2 weeks off for spring break and planned on playing FFXI both weeks but i guess its going to break down to playing Torchlight and maybe finish off the marks in FFXIII.... but i may eventually go crazy and start seeing Carbuncle following me around

[Cylock]

I'm currently spending my time catching up on a lot of 3D modeling i should have been doing from the start. Buuuuuut as far as getting my gaming fix I've been hitting up a lot of M.M.O free trials to test the gaming waters out there. So far the coolest one I've come across is Vindictus. Check out some game play videos here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UavDNE5J4wg)
official site here (http://vindictus.nexon.net/)

[Tritiont]

I would say watch anime but...

[Neika]

Reading, reading, more reading, bubble bath while reading etc. lol

[Rosalie]

Apparently the hot thing to do is to start political arguments on game forums.... lol.

[Crawlerbasher]

been playing assassin creed 2 that I brought on the day ffxi went down.
Its much better than the first one.

[chrism]

For those seeking something new to play

Everquest 2 is free to play and is better than WoW in a lot of ways ( my highest char is 64 Shadowknight on free server Name: Masamune - for those who wish to test it out send me a tell sometime)

Their is also Gunz online a 3rd person tactical shooter game with unique gameplay compared to most shooter based games ( http://gunz.ijji.com ) ( IGN: Chrissm )

Guild wars... Global Agenda... Dungeons and Dragons online... Watch some anime... go get laid.... drink a beer.... sit down on the couch and say.... " awwhh... thats the spot "

[Sp1cyryan]

Beat your meat in the kitchen.

Always passes the time.

[CebPtolemy]

All things green must die?

[Sp1cyryan]

Apparently the hot thing to do is to start political arguments on game forums.... lol.

You must be new to forums and the internet in general.

[JagerForrester]

You must be new to forums and the internet in general.

If that's the same Rosalie I know who's a quest horder, no. She's not new to forums.

[Joegod]

Well I suppose there's always a replay of Xenogears, oughtta take the right amount of time.

[Rosalie]

GRAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH DIE STUPID RAKTAVIJA

WHY U NO 5STAR!!!!

[Ezikiel]

GO COMPLETELY INSANE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

[Rocman]

I went to the bar yesterday, got drunk and paid off some hot girls tab.... I'm such an idiot.... If only FFXI was up, It would have saved me a night of embaressment and a wad of cash!

hahahahahaha love it

[Penance]

Bleach and Fairy Tail were surprisingly released this week

[Valtre]

debating on playing FF 4 5 and 6 and tactics advance or golden sun 1 and 2

[Crawlerbasher]

Started to play Assassin's Creed the first one again.
And its a lot easer now that I know what to do.

[Krystal]

i know what we can do while FFXI is down....GET A LIFE! good lord land sakes alive...lol go outside..play some sports..spend time with family...ya you know the family that's been bugging the crap out of you to play a boardgame with them but you've been too tied up in FFXI to care? ya them..:P

[Kuvo]

Dragon Age 2 just came out so I bought that but i still haven't finished DAO with all the DLC so I've been playing the first one. Once i finish everything i want to on there i'll hit up DA2. Absolutely love those game for PC. Netflix on the PS3 with a once in awhile game on the PS3 as well. Oh.. and play with my dinkie are all good ideas.

[Coldbrand]

Self-Inflict Severe Head Trauma
Lose Ability to Perceive Time
???
Profit!!!

[Rosalie]

lol... today was spent rewatching some anime, tinkering with knights of the crystals, and as much fantasy earth zero as i can cram in before the servers shut down on the 21st.

[Chronofantasy]

Oh cool! You play KotC too? ^^ You should add me - chronofantasy@gmail.com. I'm lvl 150ish or so chaoslord.

Today I spent the day relaxing playing video games - Luigi Mansion, Valkyrie Profile Convenant of the Plume, and watching some Prison Break episodes since I only started watching the show a few days ago so I'm on Season 1 episode 5 or 6.

[Chronofantasy]

i know what we can do while FFXI is down....GET A LIFE! good lord land sakes alive...lol go outside..play some sports..spend time with family...ya you know the family that's been bugging the crap out of you to play a boardgame with them but you've been too tied up in FFXI to care? ya them..:P

Says the person with nearly 200 posts in this forum already... >.>

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Moving 650g of anime onto a second HDD.
Downloading another 50g.

[Wodggeeee]

I was thinking of trying out another MMO which has got a free trial, but I don't know which ones there are.

Hey I got Rift and it's not too bad, as long as you can use a mouse and keyboard, regardless I think FF games are like the only ones you don't need both for but you get the idea.

[Niklz]

Downloaded the 10 day free trial of WoW the other day, just to get my online gaming fix until servers are back up.
So far I don't see what's so appealing about the game, but w/e, my twitching has subsided for the time being.

[Zyeriis]

What am I gonna do during the week the servers are down? Toss and turn because all I can think about is ffxi :/ Why? Because I've been gone from the game since 2 weeks after the first level cap increase from 75. I was so far over my ffxi withdrawal too, and of course, the bartender next door (i live next to a bar) brings up how he can't play his favorite game because the servers are down in Japan (go figure, it was ffxi, shocked the hell out of me, didn't think anyone with a 50 mile radius of me played it :/). So now, I'm writhing in the hell that is ffxi addiction (it apparently never goes away). My only reprieve being that I found a torrent for Plants vs Zombies but, I've already beaten it (in a day). *rocks back in forth in the corner*

[svengalis]

Downloaded the 10 day free trial of WoW the other day, just to get my online gaming fix until servers are back up.
So far I don't see what's so appealing about the game, but w/e, my twitching has subsided for the time being.

Game is soooo boring LOL. If you like a good story with your MMOs then leave WoW alone.

No seriously thought there's quest grinding and PVP. I only got to 73(got tired of it) but I think the big appeal of that game is PVP and I don't think you can do the large scale PVP areas until around level 30. You can start doing dungeons in parties 5 with other players(even if they are not on your server) at level 15.

I just canceled my account but damn I am so bored right now. I think I may actually log back in and play it while FF XI is down. My subscription doesn't end until the 24th.

[Henihhi]

I have 3 80 wow toons i discontinued right before cata came out. Its fun to kill people but once you get lvled up enough to raid, its pretty boring and once a week shot at drops against all those people in raid makes FFXI old hnm system look tame. Ended up spending most of my time herb gathering all week between raids and it got old really fast. Weee kill heroic lk then rest of week was flying around zones looking for lichblooms lol. They've released new content since then, but it still wasnt enough to make me renew my subscription to play

[Niklz]

It is kinda boring. I don't see the appeal of it honestly. Maybe I'm speaking too soon though idk. All I do know for sure is I can't stand to be logged in for more than 2 hours.

[DaiGurrenDan]

Well... I just had my first ffxi withdrawal dream, which consisted of fighting off a level 87 Besieged... (I have no idea where 87 came from...) Which apparently means that there are 79 times more things to fight. I think I was actually lagging in my dream. It was pretty epic though. Congratulations Siren, even in our wildly unscaled dreams we're still undefeated.

[Komori]

I've been hanging more with family and my boyfriend.

And despite making plans to play other games, I end up surfing the forums all day...lol

[slakyak]

I've been hanging more with family and my boyfriend.

And despite making plans to play other games, I end up surfing the forums all day...lol

Lol, me too. I'm starting to get worried about how I'll keep up on the forum when the game servers come back up!!

[Komori]

I've been making plans for what to do when they are back up more than anything too. That and researching and watching a few vids of some people who definitely play the job better than I do.
So I can be more effienct when I get back and get a whole lot more things done when it's there.

[Caesaris]

Play some Fallout New Vegas... clean up, maybe make some music.

[woie]

friend has been bugging me to try rift so prob going to check that out or the 100's of other games iv missed out on in the last 6 years (just discovered bioshock and loving it)``

[woie]

Honestly, I think is crazy to shut down FF11. They could have been smart and setup central centers in each country incase of things like this. Just because 1 country has problems doesn't mean they should make everyone else that plays suffer. Im not saying this to be mean, but we pay them monthly, so they should have come up with ideas, and ways to keep certain areas up and running in events like this. Californa is already home to many other MMO's and they could have, or if they do, set up a server to run there. Its just a suggestion, but SE could get their ducks in a run and figure out a way to keep service to the countless that spend their money on this game. Japan has their problems, and our country has its, but you don't see japan suspending their games bc of katrina, or any other major event that happens over here.

dick.... that is all

[Kailea_Nagisa]

Monster Hunter Tri and Phantasy Star Portable 2 are both fun games. People should give them a try ^.^

[Aengus]

I went bowling today :D

With Tarus?

[Crawlerbasher]

After almost completing Assassins Creed II I finally hate Bards even such passions.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

I beat FFXII... in 10 hours...

[Starr]

I watched Hall Pass earlier which is allright, watched the first 5mins of the Justin Bieber film too

[DukeDudeston]

Well, I booted up me old Steam Account, and saw I had games on there, that I bought during a sale, and never played... well guess what I have been doing....

Buying more games.. to never play! lol
Although I did start playing Guild Wars again (need to get a MMO fix somehow.. and there is NO WAY I am trying WoW)

[Tsukino_Kaji]

I watched Hall Pass earlier which is allright, watched the first 5mins of the Justin Bieber film tooIf you want to lose brain cells, you could just drink alot. It's more entertaining... for us too.

[Yashii]

Well.. My Boyfriend (Who I met on FFXI, LAWLS) is moving in in 3~ish weeks.. So I should probably get ready for that.. i've tried playing other games but ten minutes in i get to the "Who wants to abyss.... ohwait.." point... @_@; I feel like a junkie and my crack pipe is empty.. >.< the poor boyfriend tries to say anything romantic and I go off about FFXI.. Wow. Laaame. So. Yeah. my plans. Attempt to get ready for my boyfriend to move in, but will probably wind up sitting in a corner rocking back and forth saying "{experience points} {Can I have it?}" while my Stepdad mocks me because the WoW servers work. ; ;

[bitemetwice]

So far I have read two books, painted the hall way, laid carpet, chased my kitten round the garden to remove paint lol.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm what else oh went for interveiw and got the job start monday.

Did not even think about joining WoW lol. But I did log into runescape that was so funny and basic but free.

[Rennix]

Playing gods eater burts on my psp and working overtime at work lol

[Xoh]

Comicon is in town this weekend.

Newly open "old school" video arcade, free to play on opening day, want to see if they have a Gyruss machine.

Look for some quartz crystals by a quarry.

But for now, play FF X. Had to relearn not to try to get a cursor to appear on NPC and doors. Gawd D:

Actually dug out my box of old MotG cards.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Comicon is in town this weekend.Grab me that new Cthulu comic.
Actually dug out my box of old MotG cards.I'll play you, the older the better.

[Xoh]

I guess Chris Hemsworth from the new Thor movie will be there at C2E2.

[Reyhan]

Looking for women in rl (adding them to friendlist)

i'm not a perv, i just.... /em uses mijin gakure

[Bhrams]

Well, I'm getting married in two months, been procrastinating, but Pokemon White, so nothing has been accomplished on the wedding aspect, yet.

[Reyhan]

Well, I'm getting married in two months, been procrastinating, but Pokemon White, so nothing has been accomplished on the wedding aspect, yet.

Congratulations man, remember the "call for help" will be disabled during the wedding so be strong :D

[wish12oz]

You can get a 10 day free trial for WoW!
https://us.battle.net/account/creation/wow/signup/

[Bhrams]

To add onto the wedding part, had a conversation with my ls leader went something like this...

Bhrams: Won't be on for ahwile, getting married here soon.
Dvarin: I'll be there for the wedding.
Bhrams: Really?
Dvarin: Yeah, I'll be in the back with no pats on screaming "Magified stun him!"
Bhrams: ...that is the nerdiest "I object" I've ever heard...