FFXI will be back online in 2 months

[Dreamers]

I love your Sig, Dreamers ^^

thanks, but I screwwed up somewhere, I wound up old and stupid

[Neika]

thanks, but I screwwed up somewhere, I wound up old and stupid

LMAO <3 it!!

[RAIST]

Just picked up from Tokyo Post twitter feed... estimated 320k still without power. Don't recall hearing any previous estimate on that stat...hoping that is progress on TEPCO's part.

Raist

Edit: A more encouraging tweet:
because people cooperated so much in saving electricity, a large scale blackout around Tokyo area was avoided yesterday.

[hordecore]

meaning they gonna cut energy from useless stuff like gaming :P

[HFX7686]

If it takes two months, it takes two months. Can wait.

[Babygyrl]

i think people should just stop speculating and wait for SE to make announcements..

[JagerForrester]

i think people should just stop speculating and wait for SE to make announcements..

This is probably the best thing I've seen all day.

[Kirana]

From what I understand, the shutdown of the servers was a voluntary action made by SE, in order to cooperate with the efforts of TEPCO. No one ordered SE to take them offline, this isn't some government shutdown. I honestly believe that they will get the servers up and running as soon as the national power issue is even remotely stable, even if SE ends up having to pay a much larger bill for the electricity.

[RAIST]

they were "advised" to conserve power--that could have been a polite spin on things. My impression is they were advised of a pending threat of more instability in the grid (they had been having some intermittent brown outs already), looked more closely at the situation and ultimately decided shutting down was the more responsible thing to do--either for themselves, the community, or both.

I was online when the announcement first came out. Within roughly an hour or less (was spamming colibri for magian trial) it went from more or less "we might have to take the servers down temporarily" to "we will be taking the servers down soon, but not sure just when", to "we will be shutting the servers down in 1.75 hours for an unkown timeframe, but it will be at least a week".

Whether they were gently advised, or pushed to do it...they had some timeframe of deliberation prior to shutting down. so they apperently had an assessment that set off some red flags for them one way or another. Now we just need to wait for it to go back to a green flag so they can go back online. We were not consulted concerning the shutdown...it was done for reasons probly not concerning us past the point of securing our data.

Likewise...I don't expect our urging them to get them back up ASAP is going to have that much of an impact. I'm sure they are getting enough heat to do so through their usual channels...Stockholders, Accountants, hourly employees that may not be on the clock while things are down...I imagine there's already a fire or two under their buts to find a way to get the revenue stream going again somehow.

Raist

[Madtank]

It is not a speculation, it is a fact and game wont be back before end of April UNLESS SE has a plan B. The power outages are expected to last at least until the end of April to pare the supply shortfall of 25% affecting most of TEPCO’s service areas/prefectures, especially when the plan of using elect. power supply from SW Japan (Unaffected by EQ) providers has been said hardly feasable.

Its not a first for TEPCO. In 2007 TEPCO limited the power supply, when their nuclear power plant in Kashiwazaki was shut down. However, the measure only applied to big corporate users, and it was only for 150,000 to 200,000 Kilowatts. Today they are talking an approx. 10 MIL KW!!! So if back in 2007 it took TEPCO 22 months to put Kashiwazaki plant back online...I'd even say whoever is looking forward towards End of April FFXI comeback is an "optimist"...No...more of a day dreamer

All the best Japan, go go go SE
PS: Hope SE have been considering the option of relocating their servers (Thats what several Japanese Govt agencies did).