What to do while Final Fantasy XI is down.

[Nichelsyn]

It's quite unpleasant to read some of the selfish comments in regards to how NA players are feeling they are suffering for the tradegy of one Country. Of course Japan did not shut servers down due to Hurricane Katrina. You have to remember they are a much smaller country then we are & Hurricane Katrina effected the South Eastern Coast. In the US almost every state has a major source of energy that it feeds from & I do not think any nuclear reactors exploded when that Hurricane hit (least I think). One thing great about the US is we are actively working on getting people back up an going after a major incident. However in respect to the home nation of the Company who developed XI I would think we as players could put aside our selfish comments & be more understanding to the reason that SE is cooperating with the Japanese Government & is willing to do anything to help. Remember we are not an American Game developed to be played worldwide like wow is (because wow invested the money to hosting servers globally, & I am sure they are paying a nice amount to do so). I am sure it would be very costly for SE a company dependant on serveral franchise for income (and is not as well financed as Activision, remember the company that formerly owned blizzard was bought out by Activision) thought it best not to invest the money on global servers especially during this economy.

To those of you who find it crazy, unfair of SE, & are genuinely upset about not playing a game (in which if you see the positive you are not paying for April's service), I hope you feel better tonight knowing that Thousands of Lives were lost this past week. Several Hundred are still missing & there are Americans with family in Japan who have not even heard a word if their loved ones are ok, but yes SE please keep your servers running so you can playing you MMO & screw saving power to keep the hospitals going, I need abbysea tonight!

[Nichelsyn]

On a side note I am going to be devoting this time to finishing up several games & going back to the brutal killing of Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. New DLC last week, need to give it a test spin. I miss my Hellequin.

[Yuber]

I dunno if it's just my computer Nichelsyn but your sig is stretching way past the border of the forum lol.

[Antonioklaus]

Playing the 7 day Free trial of WoW. I just hope that FFXI isn't more than a week down or I'll get too involved in WoW. While I understand that there is no power to run the servers, it surprises me that there isn't a back up server in the States, considering the amt of players in other countries and the technology out there. If they don't get the Nuclear powerplants under control, they are going to have far greater problems on their hands. Which means we won't be playing XI for a really long time.

[Ritsuka]

Yes but think of this as a business (which it is) there was 1,800 players online that day on my server alone alot of them where japanese so some dont realy care about the power consumtion if they where they wouldn't have been playing the game. We all got billed this month for the game. WE payed for there service which they cut us all off from, Not cus they had too but they wanted too. With out our consent. Those 1,800 paid there bill thats 12.95 from each of those ppl thats up 23310$ Just from my server alone, Not counting the other servers. They should rent a generator not like there useing the power on the server they got alot of money from us and now its like there takeing it and running. Business is Business This might make alot of ppl quit. They should refund our money or move the server's to another place for the time being.

[slakyak]

I'll be spending some quality time with my neglected PS3 and will prob pick up duodecim prologus tomorrow.

I suppose I should really take a look at this "outdoors" that people speak of(!).

[Shinzagoon]

Gonna go trigger grellow on my Microelectronics homework.

[Topdogg]

Playing the 7 day Free trial of WoW. I just hope that FFXI isn't more than a week down or I'll get too involved in WoW. While I understand that there is no power to run the servers, it surprises me that there isn't a back up server in the States, considering the amt of players in other countries and the technology out there. If they don't get the Nuclear powerplants under control, they are going to have far greater problems on their hands. Which means we won't be playing XI for a really long time.

If you get too involved with WoW in just a week, maybe you shouldn't come back to ffxi.

[Tezz]

I have 6 months of RIFT, but i'm not quite feeling it. I'm a mage. I planned to take my sweet time with it anyway.

Dissidia will be coming out soon too, i might check that out. At the moment i'm going through Ocarina of Time again in preparation of the June re-release on the 3DS. 25th Anniversary!

Also, now is a good time to set a list of reasonable goals for FF11 once the servers come back up.

[Meyi]

1. Final studies.
2. Make paper cranes... although I'm not sure if there's a way to send them or not.
3. Study Japanese.
4. Sleep!
5. Work on my girlfriend's anniversary gift.