Next review date for servers, Tues 22nd JST

@RAIST If even they would have told us they doing this....

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Originally Posted by Camate

Hey everyone,

Most of you may have read the follow-up on PlayOnline news regarding the servers. (for those of you that haven’t here is a link: http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/pol...ews20547.shtml)

First of all I just wanted to say from myself and on behalf of the rest of the Community Team, thank you so much for being patient and understanding in these tragic times. We’re really impressed and moved by how strongly you all support Japan and your efforts to donate.

With the servers being down, many of you are wondering what’s going on with Vana’diel time and your plants, traverser stones, besieged, etc. Pretty much, just think of this as really long server maintenance, which means that unfortunately your plants will be withered, but the number of traverser stones Joachim sets aside for you will have increased, and besiege will pick up where it was left off.

We will give you updates on the situation and again thank you very much for your kind words and compassion.

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This showed up in another one of the many threads debating this situation. Guess the Community Team is trying to keep us informed...but, they just are not being given the information you guys want.

Raist

I wonder how many SE employee's have friends and family in tokyo and cities that were hit...

They probably wouldn't be fully able to concentrate on work atm even if they were open.


I don't think a lot of people realize just how bad the situation is..

they can listen to numbers and death toll etc.. but they don't comprehend just how bad it is.

I'd be surprised if they have it up by the 22nd.. just give them a chance to fix their country.

Cem started a "petition" of sorts to try to get some info from SE. Everyone needs to hop over there and /sign it. Maybe it will work.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...ll=1#post33153

Raist

I don't see how a petition will help them get things working faster...

If anything they know as little as we do...

I'm not sure how a video game company is suppose to be experts on the power grid situation.

All they can do is forward information they get from the power company.

@Flunklesnarkin if is really how they gonna face this crisis (Watching/analyzing) until it end, then i guess we can call it game over for FFXI.

There have been thousands of posts arguing over this issue. Cem's is a more formal request for a more detailed update--not likely to spark the flame wars going on in other threads. If everyone would just /sign it and keep it civil, perhaps it will get some results.

Raist

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Originally Posted by Ilax

@Flunklesnarkin if is really how they gonna face this crisis (Watching/analyzing) until it end, then i guess we can call it game over for FFXI.

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I wouldn't try to lump others into your flawed logic lol

and they aren't just watching analyzing.. they shut down the company and donated money to the crisis..

Their employees are probably concentrating on relief efforts and helping their friends and family affected.

i think everyone has the wrong idea about what's going on at square. from what i've gathered reading their official posts, they don't HAVE to shut down the servers. they still have power. the japanese government asked people to conserve electricity. as square said in one of their announcements they feel socially obligated to shut them down. it wasn't because they don't have the power to run them. it's because they want to help. they stopped looking at things in a business perspective and started looking at things from a human perspective. their friends and family and neighbors are suffering and to ease the burden of those around them they shut down their servers in a bid to comply with the governments request. nowhere have i read any official word that they don't have power. when they say they are re-evaluating the situation i take it to mean that they are evaluating whether they feel running business as usual would place too much of a burden on the countries limited supplies. but all this is just my take on things from the official announcements i've read.

Interesting tweet over at The Tokyo Post:

Today is the first day they will try to run with no scheduled blackouts - expect that supply exceeds demand

Everyone cross your fingers!

Raist