Shut up about the servers.

[Dale]

I think some people should turn on the tv with your down time from ffxi and watch the news. FFXI was NOT shut down because of the earthquake. FFXI was NOT shut down because of the tsunami.

FFXI WAS shut down because with power plants being down, and very close to a nuclear meltdown, the country is not running with even close to the electrical power as usual. They are having rolling blackouts to help conserve what power they do have, and thier government asked EVERYBODY to conserve energy. FFXI is not more important than anybody else in Japan who has to conserve.

or would you rather have FFXI stay up, so when the rolling blackout hits them, it crashes thier servers, possibly damaging them. Or maybe if FFXI stayed online, they could just bypass them and have the rolling blackouts hit the hopitals instead.

Ok well then answer me this. If conserving power was so crucial to people's survival, why havn't they shut down the servers operating these forums yet?

[Icestein]

Ok well then answer me this. If conserving power was so crucial to people's survival, why havn't they shut down the servers operating these forums yet?

IP: 64.208.159.16
IP Location: Farmington, United States

I've answered you that. Will you please go away now?

Simple Who.Is lookup. The servers powering these forums are ran in Farmington, USA.

[Dale]

IP: 64.208.159.16
IP Location: Farmington, United States

I've answered you that. Will you please go away now?

Simple Who.Is lookup. The servers powering these forums are ran in Farmington, USA.

It was just a simple question which you answered. No need to get rude about it lol

[Icestein]

It was just a simple question which you answered. No need to get rude about it lol

You're being incredibly ignorant about the whole situation. You're suggesting that Square enix has more of a responsibility to keep the server online to appease a relatively small amount of players over providing even the smallest relief on a strained energy crisis. Watch the news. It's bad. It's much worse than our collective craving to play a game.

[Dale]

You're being incredibly ignorant about the whole situation. You're suggesting that Square enix has more of a responsibility to keep the server online to appease a relatively small amount of players over providing even the smallest relief on a strained energy crisis. Watch the news. It's bad. It's much worse than our collective craving to play a game.

I never suggested any such thing, and I"m not craving anything lol

Lighten up, all I said was SE is a global company and needs to take taht into consideration. I clearly stated that if it shutting down the servers did actually help than it was the right thing to do. You are way too eager to attack people, and exagerate what people say to defend your attacks. Chill out lol

[Dreamers]

Ok well then answer me this. If conserving power was so crucial to people's survival, why havn't they shut down the servers operating these forums yet?

Forums such as this can be run off a PC in your house. Do you know how much energy it takes to run the game servers? Also I'm not even sure if the forums or the POL site are run on a server in Japan, maybe thye are, or maybe they were able to move them to a server in California. And before you ask, there is a big difference between moving forums to a different server and moving all the game servers.

[Dale]

Forums such as this can be run off a PC in your house. Do you know how much energy it takes to run the game servers? Also I'm not even sure if the forums or the POL site are run on a server in Japan, maybe thye are, or maybe they were able to move them to a server in California. And before you ask, there is a big difference between moving forums to a different server and moving all the game servers.

Now see look at this, a well informed answer not drenched in a pompous state of internet morality