Temporary Suspension of the Services Due to an Earthquake

[myrla-elphaba]

Now I wish SE would have billed everyone for April and then turned the money over to disaster relief. As in, mandatory. I wonder how many people would have been angry about that?

[Sayomi]

I'm starting a fundraiser at my college to help the relief effort, bakesales ftmfw D:! My prayers go out to all the victims and families effected by this tragedy.

[Crash]

Sorry if i said anything in my post that made it look like i was trying to defend people getting mad they cant play a game for awhile and id like to give my best wishes to all those in Japan that need the help many are trying to give.

[UltraBlackone]

All the best of wishes go to Japan right now. My thoughts and hopes go all out to all effected by this horrible event. SE, take as much time as you need to save power and get the important matters handled.

With that said, to the players: Realistically, how long do you predict SE will keep the game down for? Personally I'd ballpark it anywhere from 3 weeks to 3 months. Honestly I'm ok with that though since I highly doubt that SE would bill us for a service we can't use. I mean they already gave us the April billing cycle. I think that's proof enough. Besides, it's just a game. Sure I'm bummed that I just got my RDM to 30 only to have to wait before getting some of the advanced jobs but this all nothing in the shadow of death and carnage that has been ripping through Japan. Personally I'm donating every penny I'd normally use for this game to relief efforts for as many months as this game is down.

[Starcade]

wow. how self centered. You would rather see the electricity diverted to a video game rather thank...oh i don't know...HOSPITALS? I would like to say I'm shocked by this posters response but I'm not.

I hope all the Japanese FFXI players are keeping safe and well.

Not shocked in the least -- see this behavior online (in- and out of game) all the freaking time.

And people wonder why I can be such a pain...

[Gakaroth]

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

... Disgusting... Just disgusting...


As someone from New Zealand, we know what you're going through, we got struck twice in 5 months by earthquakes that decimated one of our main citys, but even that doesn't compare to the ammount of devistation that's occured in Japan. Our thoughts are with all those who have lost thier loved ones, both in New Zealand and Japan, and I'm sure we'll be sending anything we can spare from recovery in Christchurch to help you out as you did us in our time of need.

Regards,
Gakaroth.

[Starcade]

Now I wish SE would have billed everyone for April and then turned the money over to disaster relief. As in, mandatory. I wonder how many people would have been angry about that?

I wish to state this very carefully...

After the announcement that Square-Enix would not be billing for April, I can see some people getting a little upset.

I certainly would have no issue with voluntary donations (which is one of the reasons I like some sort of gil-based donation process too, if it can be made workable -- there are a number of prominent players who, though they are prominent in the community, have made it no secret that they are struggling in the present economy), but, after they already said (to their strong credit -- they didn't have to, in that they could've declared a simple force majeure with every justification) that they would not bill for April, it'd be a bit of a reversal to go mandatory.

[Riggs]

I've played this game since 2004 and i love it, but if closing the severs means that the lights and heating stay on in even 1 familys home in Japan then you have my full support. watching the horrific scenes on tv was hart breaking, god bless you all

[dumblyz]

Some of the posts on this form have made me feel sick and I do hope SE reads all of the post's and finds out who they are and ban's them what stupid people they are.

from my understanding SE are not going to bill us for April due to the servers being down i think it might be an idea for SE to give us the chance to pay the fee and then they use it to help those that need it. I will be sending what I can to the relief.

I think we will be very lucky should the game be back up and running in a week given everything that has happened and is happening I think we may be looking at a longer time out I just hope the most of the people understand why and don't go on having a moan about it.

My thoughts are with ther families at this very sad time.

[Starcade]

I want to say this carefully, because I don't want my normal "subtle as a sledgehammer" motif to mark this thread up any worse than it already is, but I do feel I need to say something about the players disgusted by the (I am forced to censor myself, but please insert any inflammatory term you wish for them) who are either:

1) Actually more concerned about their own presence in-game than the events in Japan
and/or
2) Screwing around to get this type of reaction

Is it any real wonder why I don't respect the player-base when a bunch of you (similar censorship) act like this?