Minimise the downtime please.

[illusionist]

I'm sorry,but we need understanding.Quake involved Nuclear plants which electricity is supplied to Tokyo area.It leads lack of electricity,we are having downtime of electricity even we are living out of massive damage area.already,one person died because her life support didn't work well while downtime.
It's not life and death problem for you,I know,
So,to say cynic way,If you can raise victims died from lack of electricity,Please insist shorter downtime.

P.S Thank you,Izzybella,and all supportive comments.

[Izzybella]

I'm sorry,but we need understanding.Quake involved Nuclear plants which electricity is supplied to Tokyo area.It leads lack of electricity,we are having downtime of electricity even we are living out of massive damage area.already,one person died because her life support didn't work well while downtime.
It's not life and death problem for you,I know,
So,to say cynic way,If you can raise victims died from lack of electricity,Please insist shorter downtime.

Prayers to you and yours illusionist

[Runespider]

I honestly dont think you do AT ALL. People have died our friends and family are unable to be contacted so yeah STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT THE TIME FFXI IS DOWN

What does this have to do with it? The reasons they gave for the downtime was that the power companies have asked them to reduce power usage and nothing to do with what you are saying. If this is the case then they need to take action to bring the servers back up asap to minimise the damage to the company. All the nice talk and good feeling in the world won't fix their bottom line when they realise how much damage long time downtime will do to two titles they run.

If this means hosting the game on servers in another country or indeed their other offices then why not? Don't they have Square US, Square EU etc?

[Luvbunny]

To the original poster of this thread, server is down for a week or two, no big deal, go play other games, or better yet, go and actually DO something with your life that is not related with playing video games. Maybe if you have the same dedication to your real life achievements, life would not be so bad after all. Quit whining over a week or two of not being able to play FFXI.

BTW, you will not be charged for the month of April for FFXI, which means, should they shut it down for 4 weeks, you have nothing to complaints about. 4 weeks away from FFXI probably a good idea. The sun is shining, go outside and smell the roses... or the polution

[Sorka]

I'm kinda hoping this'll be a wake up call to SE to have backup servers in another country so if this happens again they won't have to shut down the servers for an undetermined amount of time. I am wholly sympathetic to the plight of the Japanese people and fully understand the need to shut off any superfluous power-drains so I'm not going to be bitching and whining about how I can't play the game for X number of days.

[Izzybella]

1) minimize

Both are correct, I live in the uk.

My apologies! I learn something new every day

[Sureal]

if blizzard had all their servers in lets say LA, and a huge earthquake happened which caused a state of emergency then yes, they would shut down the servers, because they have to,

getting back to status quo and recovering from one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history > you playing ffxi

[Kindra]

Perspective, Yes games are what SE does. Lets ask this though, Are games more important the lives of human beings? Let's face it People run SE, most people tend to care about what happens to their fellow man.

As far as Blizzard goes, you should call them and ask them, "If you were in the same position as SE right now what would you do?" I am pretty sure that if the US were hit, and by hit i mean the entire US was in the same position as Japan, they would shut down servers for the sake of power for hospital's, and to allow people to cook their meals and so on.

There are so many other things you can do with this down time. To name a few: Read some books, spend time with family and friends, get caught up on house work, take a walk, go see a movie, watch TV, Play some other games... these are just a few of the things i can think of atm lol. Be thankful for what you have got. Be thankful your alive and well. Be thankful loved ones are alive and well.

I am not saying you aren't entitled to your opinion, but the way i see it is if they need to shut down for longer then a week so be it. Also I don't want you to think that I am degrading you or anything like that. This is the way i feel and to be honest I have grown tired of people complaining that they can't play a video game when real lives are at stake.

None of this is said in anger just the thoughts I have.

[chibowibo]

Wow so much cryin about a Game going down for some time? They need to save power because half the lines destroyed and the ones that left would burst with to much usage and how that end´s you guys in USA should know when you remember what happend a few years ago because in New York whole town did run out of power because of a singe line. I rather see them keep Hospitals and that stuff up then play a game. On a side note Sony and many other japanese companys did the same so you gona cry if you have to wait for a PS3 in a half year may be 1 day longer for delivery?

[Darkren]

What does this have to do with it? The reasons they gave for the downtime was that the power companies have asked them to reduce power usage and nothing to do with what you are saying. If this is the case then they need to take action to bring the servers back up asap to minimise the damage to the company. All the nice talk and good feeling in the world won't fix their bottom line when they realise how much damage long time downtime will do to two titles they run.

If this means hosting the game on servers in another country or indeed their other offices then why not? Don't they have Square US, Square EU etc?

This has all relavance, if you cant even have power for telecommunications, do you really think they give a damn about power for SE servers.
your original post seemed like you were more bothered about keeping your gaming addiction up, I really dont think you care about SE's financial losses.