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Originally Posted by Flux

unprofessional. nuff said.

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|Um...| if following a national/cultural tradition of honoring and respecting each other and doing what is best for a troubled people in great need is "unprofessional" of a company... than I want no part of that company.

Raist

nice Ninja edit after my reply there Flux. and BTW... Sony DID shut down all operations, as did nearly every manufacuring facility there. Sony and a couple other plants that process raw materials re-opened minimal operations a couple days later for short periods of time once it was determined it was safe to do so. In general though, a the larger sector of all large scale UNNECESSARY facilities are on standby until further notice.


And they have been doing a much better job with their scheduling. A lot of the updates have been kicking off during typical business hours in the US--which happens to start off during a large portion of JP leisure time. So it is a lot more balanced then it used to be. At least I could still get on by 9-10PM instead of not being able to get on at all in our time zone like it used to be. Also, that happens to fall more in JP's evening time, which means SE may be paying a lot of overtime for those updates as well since they are doing less of it during the normal office hours when they are fully staffed. So I further appreciate their efforts on that front as well.

Raist

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Originally Posted by Flux

I'd be very, very surprised if such major companies such as Sony were to stop all operations because of events?

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.

unprofessional. nuff said.

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What you mean apart from this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12782566

EVERYONE is affected by it, sorry if you're to selfish to realise there are BIGGER things in this world, and you think you are the only ones affected by time differences and ping rates! Try living in the UK.

and as for cost! urm.. didn't I hear that Square are not charging for April (for an estimated one week of down time) so you get a month free for a natural disaster, yet.. you still complain.. simple thing here.. GET A LIFE! people like you tick me off.

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they also donated 100 million yen to the relief effort as well...

Raist

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Originally Posted by RAIST

they also donated 100 million yen to the relief effort as well...

Raist

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LOL that I didn't know, still I am standing my ground, and using the money that Square "refund" to donate to the relief, its the least I feel I can do (not saying I wouldn't have donated anyway.. just this is a perfect reason to)

Sony is diverse enough to shutdown operations in one part of the world and still operate.

LOL @ SE donating... We've donated by paying SE executives the monthly fee. If they didn't donate I would be stunned. Besides, it's a tax right off. Hey does this mean I can right off my monthly fee (or a portion thereof) as tax free? Interesting...

Maybe they could have donated 200 M ?

This forum is 3 years too late ...

are you serious? a TAX WRITE OFF?

You do realize there is a limit to how much you can deduct on your taxes for donations....

And I doubt your $13USD a month has much (if anything) to go to the SE execs after payroll for the crew that directly supports FFXI, the elctricity to run everything, the cost of the bandwidth to host it, varies supplies used in day to day operations, taxation, regulatory fees, legal fees, accounting costs.....and God knows what ever else there may still be in there.

And as for the diversity of Sony... SE has operations nationwide that are still up and running, working on development, QA testing and various other duties as well. The only thing down are the divisions for FFXI and FFXIV. Likewise, Toyota shutdown just the production in Japan... the plants in Alabama are still running.

Raist

Yup, tax write off.

Let's see... I guess Sandra Bullock donated that 1 million dollars so she can get that big old $500 tax write off to0 then, eh?

Raist