FFXI will be back online in 2 months

see you guys then good luck

Maybe less.. hopefully we'll get more information Monday.

Raist

Such confidence. I want to have his informantion sources too.

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Originally Posted by hordecore

FFXI will be back online in 2 months

see you guys then good luck

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you calling it or do you have a source?

Ya I know right? Pretty sure this thread will be nuked because you're spreading rumors :p

He's probably basing that off of the TEPCO announcement. I do wish SE would give us a more realistic delay though... I want to know if I should give Rift a go lol.

LOL this goes hand in hand with the post I started on SE banning people for stupid stuff. This thread should have been locked the moment it was made. No info behind it, and generated simply to harm the forum community. Way to go freaking everyone out sir, the banhammer should take off your head!

eh.. I just have a lot of hope/faith in the Japanese people I guess. They have seen so much strife over there and they always bounce back stronger than before. And look at the civility over there...if something like this happened in some areas of the US there would be looting , panic, and riots in the streets.

Raist

i just bought digital version of RIFT 8GB download 1 hour left to go :P

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i just bought digital version of RIFT 8GB download 1 hour left to go :P

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Have fun on your WoW clone. ^^

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp...e/index-e.html

go email them they are my only source

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http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp...e/index-e.html

go email them they are my only source

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TEPCO's Nuclear reactors only provide a portion of Japan's overall power. Think the stat for Tokyo alone was like 30% or something. They're in the process of pulling more power from the mainland to offset the reduction in capacity. Think someone posted in another thread that Russia was building to provide like 6 MW, and GE is <supposed> to be sending about 600MW via 10 truck mounted gas turbine generators to help fill in gaps as well.

Raist

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Originally Posted by RAIST

TEPCO's Nuclear reactors only provide a portion of Japan's overall power. Think the stat for Tokyo alone was like 30% or something. They're in the process of pulling more power from the mainland to offset the reduction in capacity. Think someone posted in another thread that Russia was building to provide like 6 MW, and GE is <supposed> to be sending about 600MW via 10 truck mounted gas turbine generators to help fill in gaps as well.

Raist

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Actualy, 30% is a HUGE ammount as far as power distribution is concerned.

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Originally Posted by Hoshi

I do wish SE would give us a more realistic delay though... I want to know if I should give Rift a go lol.

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What makes you think they know how long it'll be?

All 6 units of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station have been shut down.


Unit 1(Shut down)
- Reactor has been shut down. However, the explosive sound and white smoke
were confirmed after the big quake occurred at 3:36PM Mar 12th. It was
assumed to be hydrogen explosion.
- We have been injecting sea water into the reactor pressure vessel.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp...1031719-e.html

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too many units shutting they gonna take several months to repair

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Originally Posted by Lyall

I can't stand your hypocrisy. Your thread is titled "WARNING: SE will ban you for seriously stupid stuff on this forum" yet you're attempting to call someone on needless rumor-mongering?

Edit: Nevermind, it got nuked. I suspect this one is going soon, also.

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It got nuked because I nuked it. Shows what you know. SE didn't nuke it I shut it down.

Last I heard their consumption with the rolling blackouts for Tokyo had been estimated at 38MW during peak times, 33MW in off-peak times (think that was TEPCO's power, a bit fuzzy on that). They were only having trouble sustaining the power for the peak time frame with the current schedule.

That's getting pretty close to managable under the circumstances. If they can get some extra power pumped in there, hopefully it turns around enough to start cutting back on the blackouts.

Raist

As long as we want to through out random amounts of time on when the servers will be back...

This is just a guess on my part, but with watching the slow progress on cooling the reactors, and the additional generators GE is supplying, I predict to see the servers back up on Wednesday the 23rd. No, I have no evidence to support this, it is just a guess on my part by how things are progressing. Oh and its also the day my mom is coming to visit for 2 weeks, so I wont have much time to play while she is here, so of course they will be back when I cant play:p

lol..isn't that some kind of Murphy's Law?

Raist

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To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.

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I love your Sig, Dreamers ^^

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I love your Sig, Dreamers ^^

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thanks, but I screwwed up somewhere, I wound up old and stupid

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thanks, but I screwwed up somewhere, I wound up old and stupid

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LMAO <3 it!!

Just picked up from Tokyo Post twitter feed... estimated 320k still without power. Don't recall hearing any previous estimate on that stat...hoping that is progress on TEPCO's part.

Raist

Edit: A more encouraging tweet:
because people cooperated so much in saving electricity, a large scale blackout around Tokyo area was avoided yesterday.

meaning they gonna cut energy from useless stuff like gaming :P

If it takes two months, it takes two months. Can wait.

i think people should just stop speculating and wait for SE to make announcements..

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i think people should just stop speculating and wait for SE to make announcements..

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This is probably the best thing I've seen all day.

From what I understand, the shutdown of the servers was a voluntary action made by SE, in order to cooperate with the efforts of TEPCO. No one ordered SE to take them offline, this isn't some government shutdown. I honestly believe that they will get the servers up and running as soon as the national power issue is even remotely stable, even if SE ends up having to pay a much larger bill for the electricity.

they were "advised" to conserve power--that could have been a polite spin on things. My impression is they were advised of a pending threat of more instability in the grid (they had been having some intermittent brown outs already), looked more closely at the situation and ultimately decided shutting down was the more responsible thing to do--either for themselves, the community, or both.

I was online when the announcement first came out. Within roughly an hour or less (was spamming colibri for magian trial) it went from more or less "we might have to take the servers down temporarily" to "we will be taking the servers down soon, but not sure just when", to "we will be shutting the servers down in 1.75 hours for an unkown timeframe, but it will be at least a week".

Whether they were gently advised, or pushed to do it...they had some timeframe of deliberation prior to shutting down. so they apperently had an assessment that set off some red flags for them one way or another. Now we just need to wait for it to go back to a green flag so they can go back online. We were not consulted concerning the shutdown...it was done for reasons probly not concerning us past the point of securing our data.

Likewise...I don't expect our urging them to get them back up ASAP is going to have that much of an impact. I'm sure they are getting enough heat to do so through their usual channels...Stockholders, Accountants, hourly employees that may not be on the clock while things are down...I imagine there's already a fire or two under their buts to find a way to get the revenue stream going again somehow.

Raist

It is not a speculation, it is a fact and game wont be back before end of April UNLESS SE has a plan B. The power outages are expected to last at least until the end of April to pare the supply shortfall of 25% affecting most of TEPCO’s service areas/prefectures, especially when the plan of using elect. power supply from SW Japan (Unaffected by EQ) providers has been said hardly feasable.

Its not a first for TEPCO. In 2007 TEPCO limited the power supply, when their nuclear power plant in Kashiwazaki was shut down. However, the measure only applied to big corporate users, and it was only for 150,000 to 200,000 Kilowatts. Today they are talking an approx. 10 MIL KW!!! So if back in 2007 it took TEPCO 22 months to put Kashiwazaki plant back online...I'd even say whoever is looking forward towards End of April FFXI comeback is an "optimist"...No...more of a day dreamer

All the best Japan, go go go SE
PS: Hope SE have been considering the option of relocating their servers (Thats what several Japanese Govt agencies did).

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It is not a speculation, it is a fact and game wont be back before end of April UNLESS SE has a plan B. The power outages are expected to last at least until the end of April to pare the supply shortfall of 25% affecting most of TEPCO’s service areas/prefectures, especially when the plan of using elect. power supply from SW Japan (Unaffected by EQ) providers has been said hardly feasable.

Its not a first for TEPCO. In 2007 TEPCO limited the power supply, when their nuclear power plant in Kashiwazaki was shut down. However, the measure only applied to big corporate users, and it was only for 150,000 to 200,000 Kilowatts. Today they are talking an approx. 10 MIL KW!!! So if back in 2007 it took TEPCO 22 months to put Kashiwazaki plant back online...I'd even say whoever is looking forward towards End of April FFXI comeback is an "optimist"...No...more of a day dreamer

All the best Japan, go go go SE
PS: Hope SE have been considering the option of relocating their servers (Thats what several Japanese Govt agencies did).

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You dont think a big company like SE has a plan b? No big corp. would want to take any kind of a profit cut for that long. Think about this as if you owned the company, You are going to do whatever it takes to get your product back and running asap. It might be another week or so but it will be up way befor the end of april.

I think I am going to kill myself If I have to go 2 months without this game. :(

True Rocman, I can't but agree more with you. BUT again when its business, its all about figures and turnover. So if SE/FFXI users outside Japan does not cover the relocation of services, then it will not be an option. Besides, if we are to think about the fair play policy of SE lol, that option wouldn't be fair to ower fellow Japanese player who would still be suspended untill Japan can stand back up on its feet.

Regardless, two, three or four months... that was just a technical reply to those hoping to the original post and the speculations. Between the game and a whole country that slept to wake up on such a calamitous disaster!!! I'd say who cares about the game.

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I think I am going to kill myself If I have to go 2 months without this game. :(

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Lol, so dramatic! I guess saying you actually can live without FFXI does nothing to help your situation? I'm still slapping my knee.

I'm gonna play Crisis Core now.

I think a lot of Japan would play if they moved the servers else where. I see a lot of japan on call of duty still.

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I think a lot of Japan would play if they moved the servers else where. I see a lot of japan on call of duty still.

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Yeah, most of japan is more or less business as usual.

Considering this thread is created by the creator of this thread:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...-back-FFXI-NOW

I'm going to say that you are a troll and I hope you do enjoy paying more money for another WoW clone thats going to be forgotten about in a few months (Aion except Rift is worse).

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Considering this thread is created by the creator of this thread:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...-back-FFXI-NOW

I'm going to say that you are a troll and I hope you do enjoy paying more money for another WoW clone thats going to be forgotten about in a few months (Aion except Rift is worse).

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stalker :P

People seem to forget, that only the eastern bit of Japan was affected. I don't think they can just walk into the building, and all work together to lift a machine and move it to another location. But I assume they'll find a way and go out far enough so that they will be able to resume buisness, or even have the servers in California primed for gameplay. While they want to help their country, how much else will they be able to donate if they start to rot because the games are turned off? And with other countries hurrily trying to move in things to help with the power shortage and to repair the cooling systems for the reactors so that we all don't die from radiation? Things will be done as quickly as they can without too much risk.

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It is not a speculation, it is a fact and game wont be back before end of April UNLESS SE has a plan B. The power outages are expected to last at least until the end of April to pare the supply shortfall of 25% affecting most of TEPCO’s service areas/prefectures, especially when the plan of using elect. power supply from SW Japan (Unaffected by EQ) providers has been said hardly feasable.

Its not a first for TEPCO. In 2007 TEPCO limited the power supply, when their nuclear power plant in Kashiwazaki was shut down. However, the measure only applied to big corporate users, and it was only for 150,000 to 200,000 Kilowatts. Today they are talking an approx. 10 MIL KW!!! So if back in 2007 it took TEPCO 22 months to put Kashiwazaki plant back online...I'd even say whoever is looking forward towards End of April FFXI comeback is an "optimist"...No...more of a day dreamer

All the best Japan, go go go SE
PS: Hope SE have been considering the option of relocating their servers (Thats what several Japanese Govt agencies did).

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Um its not a FACT until SE tells us they wont be able to bring the servers up for 2 months.. until official word is heard its SPECULATION.. japan also needs to keep there economy going as best they can you know.