I know we will hear it on SUN so I am going to say it now.......

[Dale]

all because of H.A.A.R.P.

anyway, this is a disaster and maybe Square employees can have lost their house, parents, and so on... try to fit their shoes and think about YOU in that condition: your first priority have to be open servers to let people play a videogame?
and last but not least : the decision to shut down for lack of electricity is a government decision, also Honda, Nissan and Toyota had shut down, is not a personal decision of Square...

Well Katoplepa, from a personal viewpoint, since for some reason people on this forum seem to want to personalize everything, i've had my house flooded before with no electricity and power (mulitple times actually) and believe it or not I was thinking about video games at the time, and how bored I was and how I wish i had something to do. It's amazing how boring life is when the weather is awful outside and you have no electricity. So from my view point, the natural disasters i have endured actually made me appreciate video games more, not less

[Dale]

Um just because this is a FF11 forum dont mean we cant talk about whatever we want. Use ur brain DR.Phil.

Um Detoxy, maybe you should take your own advice and use your brain to read what I actually post perhaps

I never said you coudn't talk about what ever you wanted. What I did say however was it was very silly to condemn people for talking about a Video Game on a forum about that Video Game. But i do love how you twisted what I said to make some cheap internet point and cleverly ommited to quote me.

[Kirana]

My guess is that by sometime next week they will at least start running the servers again part-time (maybe 4-8 hours a day). However, I don't expect the servers to be up full-time anytime soon.

[Dale]

My guess is that by sometime next week they will at least start running the servers again part-time (maybe 4-8 hours a day). However, I don't expect the servers to be up full-time anytime soon.

Well I hope you're wrong. But - if it becomes clear the servers are going to be down long-term as you think i really do hope they consider some alternatives, like for example moving off-shore to power their servers until the dust settles.

[Harpalina]

This is getting a little hostile...can't we just agree to disagree on this topic? Both parties make valid points...I don't see why there should be conflict like this lol.

[Skybrit]

I'm thinking 2-3 months at best.

[Dale]

This is getting a little hostile...can't we just agree to disagree on this topic? Both parties make valid points...I don't see why there should be conflict like this lol.

I don't see why either.

All people have to do is refrain from getting personal and flaming each other and they won't

[Tsukino_Kaji]

This is getting a little hostile...can't we just agree to disagree on this topic? Both parties make valid points...I don't see why there should be conflict like this lol.

Nearly all of the emotion and/or intent you're getting from any post is what you're putting there yourself.

[HFX7686]

Well prepare to be greatly disappointed, because you will be. However - remember just because you feel their opinions are ill-timed doesn't make it appropriate or justified to insult and attack them on a personal level.

It is always justified, and more importantly ethical and moral, to tell someone that they are saying (or writing) something that is inappropriate.

Demanding that the servers for a video game be turned back on when the country is undergoing three huge disasters and is trying to conserve power is unethical and immoral.

Why are you so scared of "personal attacks"? From what I have seen of posters on this forum anyone who disagrees with someone else is making a personal attack. People need to grow up and accept responsibility for their speech: you are free to say whatever you want, but you are not free from disagreement.

[RAIST]

My guess is that by sometime next week they will at least start running the servers again part-time (maybe 4-8 hours a day). However, I don't expect the servers to be up full-time anytime soon.

The problem is, they likely can't have services up like that reliably. EVERY block of the rollout has a portion of tokyo without power. Each block is roughly 3.5 hours. Though the servers would likely only go down for one, maybe 2 of those 3.5 hour blocks each day--other devices critical to the transfer of data could be down at other times. So, it's possible that services could be up at SE, but the node alllowing access to the internet is down.

It's just too messed up right now to insure stability. GE is sending 10 Gas Turbine Generators in to help shore up the energy supply while they try to get a handle on things. With any luck, it may stave off the rolling blackout situation and things start to get back to some sense of normal power-wise soon.

Raist