One week is too long bring back FFXI NOW

[Siviard]

To the OP, and Groupitou.......there will be a special place in hell for the both of you. Seriously, you two need to go step in front of a bullet train or something. The removal of you two from this plane of existence will make the world a much better place.

My sincerest sympathies to the people of Japan. I was amazed at the amount of destruction and the pictures/videos of the devastation. I fully understand the reasoning behind SE's decision to shut down the servers for a week, and I fully support the decision.

[Zeo]

If they can ban someone from the game for "troll" posts on here, surely they can do the same for incessant QQing about the server outage. Though they could more or less fall under the same category.

People like this only serve to perpetuate the fallacy that we gamers are too far disconnected from reality to care about this kind of thing. If a period of downtime due to something beyond anyone's control, then you've got bigger problems than who beats you to claiming Gukumatz/Heqet/whatever.

[JagerForrester]

Wah wah, you go live in the disaster. See how you like playing FFXI with a house on top of you, literally crushing your insensitive brain.

[Runespider]

Most of you raging on OP have lead very sheltered lives, really he didn't even say anything bad. Just an addicted MMO player locked out of the game he wants to play, most of the people replying will be thinking the exact same thing by the end of the week when it's extended.

Slowly losing faith in humanity... >.>

If you lived in a country where you weren't babied and get pretty much everything you want with rights out the wazoo you would see just how horrible and harsh humanity really is, this post making you lose faith in it is a joke compared to what actually goes on every single day.

If this is the worst you've seen you ain't seen nothing, people are capable of the worst most horrible uncaring acts imaginable. Go live in a 3rd world country for a while, that'll give you a whole other outlook on how horrendous people can truely be.

[Ilax]

Just wow you guy are horrible at life...

this actually works out... my girlfriend has the next week of work off for her birthday and i was trying to think of a way not to ignore her and play ffxi....

thank you natural disasters :P

you saved my relationship

Seriously go delete that shit, and hope we all forget about such of horrible comment.

[Mojohand]

Either the OP was a troll (and I'm not taking the bait) or an imbecile (and I'm not going to lend credence to his post with a direct response).

The shutdown, to me, reemphasized the inarguable, immutable fact that FFXI is a game, an amusement and folly that exists nowhere other than SE's cluster of servers. Those who forget that fact, and cling to FFXI as though it were something real and meaningful, do so at their own peril.

Honestly, I felt creepy playing during the period between the earthquake and the shutdown, knowing that all hell was breaking loose outside the server on which my placid little fantasy world resided.

With an appropriate adjustment in billing, of course, I wouldn't mind SE shutting the game down for a week every quarter: players could reconnect with their lives and SE could work on the game and infrastructure without the pressure of five-nines uptime. The only downside I could see is that once some players are forced to find another diversion -- or, perhaps, rediscover reality -- they may not come back to the game.

Just my $0.02...

[Pixiehawk]

Some facts here.

Size of Japan : 145,925 square miles
Size of California : 163,696 square miles

So the country is a little bit smaller than the state of California, and they can not just drive across the border into another state, or borrow electricity from their neighboring states easily. I'm sure they can do so, but I'm sure the grid across country lines is no where near as extensive as it is over state lines.

Populations:

California : 37,253,956
Japan : 127,360,000 (yes, that's almost over 3x)
Tokyo : over 30,000,000 (so yes, almost as many people as the entire state of California, in the city and it's suburbs)

With those numbers just imagine how much more power Japan uses than California does. I'm sorry, my time in FFXI is in no way, shape or form more important that a hospital that I'm sure is overwhelmed in Japan right now. Nobodies time in a video game is more important than that.

The quake that hit Japan on the 11th was a 8.9 or a 9.0

The Northridge earthquake in 1994 was a 6.7 (the quake in japan was over 100x more powerful) and caused $20 billion dollars damage. 11 hospitals had to move their patients elsewhere and overburden the hospitals that were still operational. Freeways were collapsed making travel difficult (but not impossible). And there was no Tsunami after.

Japan needs every bit of power it can get to help those hurt in the quake and tsunami - and then to help make sure something like the Valley Fever breakout that happened after the Northridge quake does not happen there.

If it turns out they need to keep the servers down longer than a week I'm fine with that. Until they can say for certain that my playing time will not cause a power outtage due to the disruption caused by the quake/tsunami where a single person would be hurt in any way I say keep the servers down.

[Ilax]

Most of you raging on OP have lead very sheltered lives, really he didn't even say anything bad. Just an addicted MMO player locked out of the game he wants to play,

OP do not deserve any kind of service from japan in any near of future, also note the lack of apologize from him after this post... He clearly show no sympathy to anyone except his own self-person.

I really hope his account get ban and make him find the time to discover the real world around him.

most of the people replying will be thinking the exact same thing by the end of the week when it's extended.

Even if game would die due to this disaster, i would not complain... Seriously, i hope this week break will set back people mind...

FFS, can any MOD lock this thread.

[NightDagger]

WOW, All I can possibly think is that the OP is an RMT & afraid that he will not make enough money selling Gil in two of his games that he will not be able to pay his bills. It is the only reasonable explanation for him to think this way. I could care less if I can't play FF for a month cause of the current situation. take you time coming back SE we will all be here for the return & understand that there is alot of more important things going on then worrying about getting your servers back up & running.

[Psykotic]

i have no problem with them shutting down for a week, there is more important things to power then some silly server like hospitals and temp housing for displaced families. besides when they do bring servers back i should have atleast 21 more traverse stones to waste farming in they crack zone of abyssea.