Temporary Suspension of the Services Due to an Earthquake

[Hoshi]

I'm really sad that the game will be offline for a while but I'm willing to wait for it to come back. I think it's more important for the power to be conserved and I'm very scared for the people near the nuclear plant that is having so much trouble.

I'm equally shocked by the people who say 'Don't turn off my game just because your country is in turmoil' and the people who say 'Ban everyone who disagrees with me'. It makes me think that maybe this is why SE has never provided the players with an official forum before. It must be very stressful to be impartial to all these people who are so openly offensive.

[amaron]

Looks like some people got aggroed by RL and are freaking out about it.

Sorry folks, can't zone the fact that FFXI is shut down. Time to get some sun and log on to the real world for once!

[Cream_Soda]

ive lost family friends from 9/11, pearl harbor, and current war in middle east so i do give you my condolences

Gonna stop you here.

You've never personally met a single person who died @ pearl harbor.

[Sp1keBahamut]

people live and die, buisnesses strive and live on. the whole world didnt stop on 9/11, pearl harbor , ect ect
SE is large company and can afford to move to where the ground dont shake. and where power is stable. im almsot sure they can move to california where they have some sorta headqaurters, however i dont promise ground wont shake but you wont have to turn off power for a week. ive lost family friends from 9/11, pearl harbor, and current war in middle east so i do give you my condolences but as a company load that crap up put it on a plane sent it to where ever is stable and setup shoop.

Disaster recovery sites are very very expensive. I'm sure they have considered this and also considered the expense of setting up a duplicate (or near duplicate) DR site. For something that is critical like your communication platform it is essential. I'm sure for the playonline and forums sites they have a full DR. I agree with SE when comparing potential loss of income / server outages vs the cost. In its place they are likely doing hourly backups and moving them offsite and finally out of the area completely should a complete disaster occur.

In this case they had three options:

1. Move the physical servers to a new colo outside of Japan - This is painful and expensive an can take months to return back to normal.
2. Create a duplicate of the system offsite at another colo and restore from existing backups, slightly less expensive but can take a week or more in most cases to come back online.
3. Shut down the servers for a week while the dust clears.

I suspect it isn't just the local power savings they are concerned with but also the IT staff operating the servers. If they have families and responsibilities then doing either of the first two will take 100% of their time to accomplish in a reasonable fashion. I am happy they took the steps of being nice to the employees and allowing them to take care of themselves rather than the game as a priority.

[CaelThunderwing]

I'm really sad that the game will be offline for a while but I'm willing to wait for it to come back. I think it's more important for the power to be conserved and I'm very scared for the people near the nuclear plant that is having so much trouble.

I'm equally shocked by the people who say 'Don't turn off my game just because your country is in turmoil' and the people who say 'Ban everyone who disagrees with me'. It makes me think that maybe this is why SE has never provided the players with an official forum before. It must be very stressful to be impartial to all these people who are so openly offensive.

to go off in a diffrent direction im surprised no one has started the BS "omg this is a sign of XI's END !!" as we dont even know if any of the Japanese Developers were in that death toll. i bet the game will see a decent depopulation due to players that are dead from the earthquake or dying now from radiation. its going to be hard SE recently took a big $$ hit when the new XIV Director did some house cleaning.

[Gadanae]

A ban is wrong but this is just someone trolling. Please do not feed trolls.

My best wishes go out to everyone at SE and hope things get sorted out as soon as possible.

Call me a troll all you like, i'm just saying only what people don't want to say because it's "politically incorrect". Anyone who places a game over human life should go play in traffic and take their own.

[Gravionblack]

No2.
A taker needs the warmth most in the stricken area of present Japan.
But it seems that I do not mind a contribution.

All people looking at here, nice to meet you.
I am a Japanese. 　I am in the stricken area of the big earthquake now.
People learn me in great regret for the cooperation to stopping of the
server by Japanese electricity shortage now.

With all a sole feeling, please watch an original animation of FFXI which I made.
And I ask for mercy to the victim.

EP1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUroyx1ezuc

EP2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KjSj0TCzCc

EP3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxvHZOhWNaE

Final EP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arODrDNcmbQ

I want to have an adventure from now on in all of you and the Vana'diel.
Thank you

I watched all of this and they are amazing thank you for posting. =)

[Salafer]

I made few very good Friends from Japan by playin this game and i hope all of them r ok,i dont believe in God,but now im prayin for all our fellow japanese players and not just them,but all people there.I hope that the reaction of some SCUMBAGS(that i dont call people),on shuting down the servers for few days dont get to u that much as angry it makes me!

[Lollerblades]

^ Same they are really good

And a polite notice to all those incentive pricks that really need to take there head out their own arses and smell fresh air for once . FFXI is a GAME not real life.. So it's down for a week big deal, some people have lost homes, friends & family. They won't come back in a week... You want to do something constructive stop typing such crap about being so hard done to with the servers being shut down and actually sit and think about what the people of Japan are going through ~

[Geebee]

This will upset a lot of people and i am one of them, hope your feed back center is ready to work double over time.. and i hope when a quake hits North America you shut down the game again just to see the response from are friends over the ocean

WOW!!!!! Why does it not surprise me that yet another sad pointless CRETIN cannot fathom the devestation caused by this event, I cannot begin to imagine the trauma and worry the people of japan are going through right now my heart goes out to you............... I just hope that one day this poor sad and lonely individual as well as anyone else who feels the same will reflect on what has happened, just for a moment................ and realise how fortunate they are not to be a victim.

but I would bet £1000 that this is yet another idiot fat ignorant teen yank who is convinced that europe is one tiny island and that america is the greatest counrty in the world, that they have invented everything since the begining of time and the rest of the world would still be in the stone age if it wasnt for the U,S of A, how saaaaaaaaaad


HAVE SOME RESPECT YOU F#=@ING LOWLIFE!!!