Minimise the downtime please.

[Zyrs]

Since Friday's 8.9 quake (the largest quake in the last 140 years in Japan), Japan has experienced more than 154 aftershocks of magnitude 5 or greater, and 27 of magnitude 6 or greater. These aftershocks are causing damage to already weakened buildings, berms and retaining walls, along with causing fears of another tsunami in already devastated areas.

I really don't understand the point of this thread. SE and all of Japan have more important things on their minds right now than whether SE should create back-up servers in another country or move the ffxi servers now. If they do decide to move the servers, it will be at the recommendation of their own employees in IT and accounting not a random ffxi player on a forum.

[Naturebeckles]

Exactly ... you havent been trying to make any point at all ... eccept to lash out and insult... anyone can do that...
The point I have REALLY been trying to make this whole time is that there need to be a separation between SE and Japan... SE provides service to UK australia canada mexico US China Korea ect..... there should have been a backup plan...
And there should be some sort of appropriate actions taking place soon or customers will get what they want somewhere else... I dont want to come back to an empty game, before the crash they were already talking about a MAJOR server merge, THis will indeffinatley make it worse

Meril... I feel for you. It's like a many against one like me in a different thread yesterday. Just because SE isn't vocal about their plans doesn't mean they don't have a contingency plan in action as we speak. The Japanese Power company is I guess planning these rotating blackouts through the end of April at least. SE says the game will be down for at least a week with updates to come. Either they're telling us a week just to make us feel better or they really are in the middle of implementing a migration or contingency plan. So, hang tight for a bit and let's see what happens. ^^

PS: Tell Gamisra I said "hi". *wink*

[Kjara]

just reading from a news-by-minute site of my country right now:
it sounds like rationed electricity in Japan is going to last *at least* till the end of April, that's what the Tepco operators said. For over a whole month Japan is going to have regular scheduled black-outs of 90 minutes through the whole day and night.
So yeah this sounds like it's going to last even longer. Gotta deal with it.

[Odintius]

I have meade substantial donations to Japanese funds HOWEVER IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SQUARE ENIX! WAKE UP!

Yes those evil Square Enix Corporations thug's get them. How dare they shutdown the server's while in middle of a crisis .

[arlais]

I offically throw in the towel with the hand full of hill-billies I have been hearing from ...

Byebye, take care!

[Meril]

Byebye, take care!

clever....

[Lexin]

Goodbye please remember to open your eyes next time and look at the larger picture and not just the one where you have to play a game.

[Kindra]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/ja...eforeafter.htm

A friend posted this on Facebook. They are before and after pics basicly and as of March 13th. Given that this topic s about why SE shutdown the servers i thought pics might help.

[Qtipus]

This post is not being mean, it's not trolling it's being realistic.

No, reality is all the crap going on in Japan currently, not your ability to play this game. You aren't being billed for a month, so it's not like you're getting railroaded. Pretty sure if SE sees the downtime will be long-term, they'll do something like move the servers somewhere else. If people quit over a day or few of downtime, good riddance for now. We'll likely see them back when their A.D.D. gets bored with whatever else they happen to find.

[Odintius]

Quick call the US Navy in to power up Square Enix server's oh and make a call to President Obama he need's to make an offical annoucment to demand Japan Government to make FFXI server's top priority of the clean up.