SE you have a Worldwide Franchise, and your support is a let down.

[Auriga]

ZOMG! SERVERS BACK UP! GO LOOK!























lets hope no one notices I lied..

[Basher]

maybe you should re-read ours or at least read ours before you jump right in there old son.

[Auriga]

maybe you should re-read ours or at least read ours before you jump right in there old son.

SHHH!! you'll bring them back! >.<

[Insaniac]

@ OP

So what you are saying is SE should have a 2nd set of servers constantly being updated but only used in the event of one of the most catastrophic events in the past 100 years? They should pay out of pocket from their already limited FFXI budget to store and maintain these servers JUST in case a 9.0 earthquake happens to cripple their entire nations infrastructure? I guess the lower budget for game development such as updates and patchs and new model design is acceptable for you. They should put these servers in place for something that happened once in the entire 8 year history of the game and will probably never happen again. All of this so the rest of the world doesn't have to deal with 9 days of having to find something else to do.

Business Logistics.. please look into them.

[Glitch]

You are implying that I didn't read your posts when I specifically addressed the main points you made.

Hmm... What was that comment I made about an ignorance muscle? Oh yeah! /em looks at the bulging one that just got bigger.

[Rezeak]

For a buisness point of view, the service of the game quite frankly is really poor, and let much to be desired, i honestly can´t understand how a worldwide franchise did not have a backup plan for this kind of unexpected issues, i know you can never control stuff like this, but i am still asking myself, why they never thought of having alternative servers, specially when the game has been online for YEARS.

Are you dumb do you think SE or any company to have a plan for a 9.0 earthquake(largest ever recorded) + Tsuami + There Nation grid being unable to meet demand.

Either way ur basically saying SE spend Millions on a back up server that might be used once every 40 years.

[RAIST]

Since you asked about the cost of fiber networks... here's pricing info for Dark Fiber in Palo Alto, CA:

$250-425 mile/month for first fiber, price varies by route
166.67 mile/month for each additional fiber

Drop cable Management fees (per 12 fibers) $179-213 mile/month
Custom cable management fees (First 12 fibers) $0.25 ft/month
($.05 ft/month each add'l 12 fibers on same project route)

Raist

[Glitch]

Thank you Riast.

This is just a drop in the bucket of the total cost of maintaining operating servers. It would also be nice if someone could provide some insight about the tax and regulation implications of having your service run from hardware based in a country rather than shooting the information over the network from that which is in your home country, which you are already paying taxes and regulatory fees in. Obviously you have some tax liability in all countries you provide services to, but laws for these types of business models are tricky and can cost an obscene amount of money when you start using a country as the source of the services.

I hope we are starting to understand why it is so cost prohibitive to have operating servers in a foreign country.

[Flunklesnarkin]

so a million + dollars a month for long distance cables not to mention server costs of actually setting up servers in other countries..

I'd rather just wait a few days next time a huge earthquake strikes than have these extra costs reflected in my monthly bill

[Auriga]

Thread starter left along time ago morons.