Shut up about the servers.

[Randwolf]

lol....
Well i can see both sides.

I"m a little annoyed at the servers being shut down also, i'm not going to lie. Is it awful what happened in Japan? You bet - and if this is actually going to help things then i'm all for it, but I don't see how it would. Square Enix also has a responsilbity to their global fanbase as well, as it's an international company, so they need to take their full clientale into account. I assume they took these balances into concern.

I live near two huge rivers, which flooded couple years back leaving me without power and water for over a week. Shutting down game servers woudn't have helped me a bit, and I really don't understand how doing this in Japan is going to help either. Everyone around those nuclear plants you speak of has already been evacuated. Those plants are already inoperable and not producing any energy, and if anything, shutting down the game for so many japaneese players who probably could use an escape from a reality now more than ever may not have been the wisest thing to do. And I really do doubt taking down the FF11 servers for a week is going to make any real difference what so ever with the problems japan is having right now. But as always, i could be wrong.

I have no doubt S/E wishes their servers were up. They need money flowing into the country. Also, as someone who has been through a disaster, the only thing that kept me going was I had a job to do. As soon as the crisis was over, I was sicker than a dog. So, I'm sure some of their employees wish the servers were up also. To have some normalcy in their lives.

So, the fact that S/E chose to close the servers means they felt it necessary, for whatever reason. They are losing revenue and incurring costs at the same time. Businesses don't take that lightly. So, for anyone to assume that S/E made a bad decision closing the servers or feels that S/E needs to hurry up and re-open them, does not understand that S/E has made a decision to lose money when they most will need it. They don't need business advice or whining while the very structures, literally and socially, are collapsing all around them.