Temporary Suspension of the Services Due to an Earthquake

[Yurikun]

I would also like to extend my sincere condolences to everyone affected by the earthquake, tsunamis, and subsiquent aftershocks. My heart goes out to you all.

[Zazhi]

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.

Aren't the servers in California? It's the electricity in Japan that is the problem. If people can't be disciplined enough to conserve their own electricity, then others shouldn't have to pay. Tragedies happen every day in the world, children die of hunger or aids, and yet we are all on the game complaining about something as trivial as not being able to get the empress hairpin to drop. What makes this tragedy any different?

[Ajuk]

Dear Square-Enix,

Please, first allow me to extend my sincerest apologies for the brutal and insensitive comments made, on behalf of the lower-beings who try to think that they belong to the human race when they clearly lack the compassion to truly be so.

Secondly - take all the time out you need! As many of us have mentioned already, the vast majority of players are more than willing to make donations - it isn't much, but I plan on making a £60 donation as soon as I get my next paycheque.

Our hearts, thoughts and prayers are with you, and given time I believe that Mother Earth will repay the country for the damage that she has done. May the lives that have sadly ended from this burn brightly in the hearts of the survivors forever.

~ Blessed Be.

[Finleyjane]

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

10,000+ people dead and a power/potential nuclear crisis... but we are all really concerned that you can't play the game.

[CaelThunderwing]

they probly cant get diesel fuel to deal with the rolling blackouts.....
lets face it a server farm doesnt consume that much power
doubt they are doing it for humanitarian reasons

you realise how many Hard drives and Clusters make up a Single World server? X that by trhe remainaing servers for XI then add the XIV servers + the POL Server cluster the average Consumer Machine will use 100~250 Watts of power durring use. Server class hardware consumes much more power. compare a server class HDD to a Consumer cflass HDD you'll see the server Class HDD consumes upto double or tripple.

you though with your post.. have no clue how much power likely YOU use up to run your system. <You can have this> <Boot To The Head!>

[Finleyjane]

Aren't the servers in California? It's the electricity in Japan that is the problem. If people can't be disciplined enough to conserve their own electricity, then others shouldn't have to pay. Tragedies happen every day in the world, children die of hunger or aids, and yet we are all on the game complaining about something as trivial as not being able to get the empress hairpin to drop. What makes this tragedy any different?

Tragedies do happen every day, but for you to say that you have to pay for a country's misfortune by not being able to play is sad. Bad things happen every day but that doesn't mean you get to use those things as an excuse to minimalize this one or to rationalize your selfish desire to play a game.

[hideka]

WHY?!


OMG you are soooooo stupid if SE payed that much they would go bankrupt... TWICE...


Your Asking a victim of a disaster to take responsibility... dick...

Think before you talk. ill forgive you tho cause this is more ignorance than ill-will.

Guess my text didnt get through properly to some.... not billing for the month that a game is down for more then a week is a standard courtesy of virtually ALL paid MMO's. i wasnt demanding reparations or anything like that. im simply stating that, as a consumer in a corporate run world, that i am not willing to pay money to a corporation for services that are not being rendered as per our agreement.

Now if you didnt selectively quote my post, youd have noticed that i also suggested that they make commemorative items for the ingame player base as a reminder of this event, or make some form of memorial service.

I'm not too good with the whole tact thing, so i might have come across as an angry consumer by mistake. and i never said that they had to take responsibility for the disaster... i was simply commenting on SE's previous history of massive cop-outs. however i was completely mistaken and incorrect on this one (see quoted post below).

And yes i grossly underestimated the sheer level of funds needed to repair, .002% of 5 billion, is one million dollars (which is roughly what SE makes roughly each month on scrip fees, probably more like 800k) im sure 5 billion is no where near enough to completely repair all of the damage, however it is enough to get their country back in operating order, to set up temp housing, and begin repairs. (id assume 5 billion would be adequate for this task, unless someone has a degree in economics on a country's level could shed some more light on this as to what it would cost, im just a plebeian and can only put out a guess as towards what it would cost.)

Just incase you went off on a nerd rage and didnt read my second post (which came before this one)

Just to be sure, im not angry i cant play the game or anything of the sort, on the contrary, i just wanted to voice my concerns over, us paying for a service that isnt going to be rendered lol. im really upset over what happened in japan lol, not just some kid QQing because of his service fees. and im actually shocked that theyre not billing us for april. THAT just restored ALL of my faith in SE >_>.... see it was slowly coming back with this new dev team in place, and now that just did it for me.

i would GLADLY donate my april scrip fees to the disaster (as would all FFXI loving players), and if SE was willing to go dollar for dollar towards what was donated, it would be an immense help im sure. probably something for SE PR/Accounting to set up (wouldnt be hard for them to go dollar for dollar either lol, theyd just need to donate march or mays scrip fees :P)

[Chrisstreb]

What has been said by some of the people on here is just sad to see. I wish nothing but the best for all of those affected over in Japan with the situation(s) they are presently facing. Also, I wanna thank the Japanese for many of the things I enjoy today, not just XI, but Video games and Anime as well. I don't know what I would without them. Thank you again, and I wish you all the best. You will be in my prayers.

Chrisstreb

[wildsprite]

Aren't the servers in California? It's the electricity in Japan that is the problem. If people can't be disciplined enough to conserve their own electricity, then others shouldn't have to pay. Tragedies happen every day in the world, children die of hunger or aids, and yet we are all on the game complaining about something as trivial as not being able to get the empress hairpin to drop. What makes this tragedy any different?

the servers in California are lobby servers not game servers, sure they could leave up the lobby servers but that would be pointless wouldnt it? as for them conserving electricity.....didnt you hear, they just had a tsunami and major quakes in Japan, there are lives lost, and the count of just how much is not known, if you wanna game go find something else to play till XI returns, SE is complying with their government and nobody knows how long it will be

[Finleyjane]

After reading some of the posts in this thread, it's surprising that some people even care about the game and when the servers will be up again. A whole country has been devastated. They lost everything that was inside of their home, and to the even more unfortunate, family members and friends have been lost. This is definitely not the time to worry about when you'll be able to leech your next job to 90 or when you will be getting the next piece of equipment. Who cares when you're knee deep in water and debris in your living room? Who cares when the people you care most in the world are missing or dead? Who cares when the country you live in and love has no electrical power for lonely, cold nights, no shelter for those who lost their safe haven called home, no food for the weary survivors, no heat for the cold and abandoned, no love for the ones who's lost everything? This is not the time to complain about a game, but a time to complain about what is not being done to help.

However, there are many posts in here that have touched me and made me want to post something here myself. It's nice to see some humanity left in this world. I would also like to send my condolences to everyone in Japan. I hope that everyone can be reunited with loved ones. I hope that your lives can be rebuilt and everything will one day go back to normal, where you would wake up and worry about the work you left at the office the night before, or how your children did in their last sporting event, and not the thoughts of what I will do for money now that the office is destroyed, or where your children are. I wish for your well-being and hope that you can find your children, or parents, or siblings, or anyone you hold dear to your heart. God Bless you all.

For those who are still ignorant to the whole situation, should look at these videos to get a sense of what has happened.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/wor....aftermath.cnn
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/wor...e.reaction.cnn

Very well said. May our thoughts be for those who are suffering and not with our next piece of af.