Can we have an update on the situation.

[Anethia]

I well expected an update or the servers to be up at the stoke of 12 after this laughable week of excuses they so proudly call business. Me and a few collage friends could have the servers up and running with a few cases of beer and a handful of generators, and we could probably have done it on the cheap. Mods could u rush letting us know weather or not to just go ahead and install rift or if we might actually see something to do this monday night.

And you probably think that none of the maintenance team, dev team or administrative team was directly affected by the earthquake/tsunami. Nope they don't have to be out cleaning their house up off the street or helping their neighbor try to find and/or rescue loved ones. Nah they can just live in their cubical with a cot and corner fridge, and completely forget that their families and freinds are currently suffering loss of loved ones. None of that matters as long as they give you constant updates on when your game will be back. /end sarcasm

[Daigotsu]

I dunno Anethia, I mean, someone who can't even spell college is probably not going to understand, even with the /end sarcasm

[Chiibi]

<3 Anethia

[Harbor]

And you probably think that none of the maintenance team, dev team or administrative team was directly affected by the earthquake/tsunami. Nope they don't have to be out cleaning their house up off the street or helping their neighbor try to find and/or rescue loved ones. Nah they can just live in their cubical with a cot and corner fridge, and completely forget that their families and freinds are currently suffering loss of loved ones.

Ill be sure to tell my spouse next time her family members are sick or dieing, or our hell if our neighbor gets snowed in or loses his dog she should close the winery. Surely the deliveries to chains of grocery stores, distributors, restaurants and the patrons or entertainment affected by this will understand, right? None of that matters as long as we the few have constant satisfaction in our own lives, hell to the fact we burnt more bridges in something as irrelevent as a company or customer satisfactions and our lively hood.

/end sarcasm

[NightDagger]

And you probably think that none of the maintenance team, dev team or administrative team was directly affected by the earthquake/tsunami. Nope they don't have to be out cleaning their house up off the street or helping their neighbor try to find and/or rescue loved ones. Nah they can just live in their cubical with a cot and corner fridge, and completely forget that their families and freinds are currently suffering loss of loved ones. None of that matters as long as they give you constant updates on when your game will be back. /end sarcasm

A quick question for you.

If their is a fire in your local mall & you are located 25 miles from the fire do you close you business? What if two of your employees family members were there shopping? Would you close your business down for two weeks if you mother died?

If you said yes to any of the questions then you have no idea what running a business is about. i know Japan is not doing well, but do not use the fact that people may have lost family members and the such as a reason to not run their business, cause that's means nothing to a business. You are entitled to two days off to "grieve" then back to work. If SE is really keeping the servers down just cause of the fact that people have family members affected by the situation then that is horrible business & I do hope that they lose a lot of their player base cause of their idiotic decision.

[RAIST]

been trying to avoid this thread for all the trolling in the past... but can't help myself... need to chunk some peanuts for this one:

lol at Harbor's post on the last page about college buddies and generators.

You do realize this is more or less a floor of equipment high end servers and clustered storage arrays, all typically wired with dual power supplies for power redundancy? It's not exactly something you power up by wheeling in a couple of Honda generators.

And their building doesn't just house the game you know...it's a 23 story building in a heavily commercialized district that houses 4 divisons of SE's conglomerate (including Taito Corporation), positioned right near a train station, several hospitals, two police stations, a major government offices building, a handful of schools and university campuses.....in short, it is a highly stressed out power grid in their sector that needs to be restricted from scheduled blackouts as much as possible....

http://www.tokyoarchitecture.info/Bu...unka-Quint.php

[RAIST]

Baseball-Loving Japan Delays Its First Pitch, but Not Without Debate
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/wo...?_r=1&src=tptw

Sounds vaguely familiar.....

[Kailea_Nagisa]

A quick question for you.

If their is a fire in your local mall & you are located 25 miles from the fire do you close you business? What if two of your employees family members were there shopping? Would you close your business down for two weeks if you mother died?

If you said yes to any of the questions then you have no idea what running a business is about. i know Japan is not doing well, but do not use the fact that people may have lost family members and the such as a reason to not run their business, cause that's means nothing to a business. You are entitled to two days off to "grieve" then back to work. If SE is really keeping the servers down just cause of the fact that people have family members affected by the situation then that is horrible business & I do hope that they lose a lot of their player base cause of their idiotic decision.

you did not just compare a fire in a mall..... to this?.....you cant be that ignorant?....can you?

[NightDagger]

you did not just compare a fire in a mall..... to this?.....you cant be that ignorant?....can you?

From a business perspective what is the difference? Call me ignorant if you want idc. The fact will never change, people die everyday & life goes on. No matter what happens a business stays running. You do not close your doors for weeks/months because your employees lost family members. Either tell those employees to get to work or fire them it is simple, but do not wait for them to be ready to return to work.

Imagine if this happened in Canada, would SE shutdown & make the JP players wait? Seriously, they would not even think about it cause they want to make money.

I do care about what is going on in Japan but how long can companies close their doors cause of it? If they all stay shutdown they will not only hurt their own company but also the economy in Japan will be so low they will never recover.

But you will just post remarks about my opinion and so be it, this will be my last post defending my remarks. Not going to argue over what I believe compared to what you believe!

[jeffanddane]

you did not just compare a fire in a mall..... to this?.....you cant be that ignorant?....can you?

I'm sorry but hes correct on this one. I mean just take his situation and put it on a massive scale. Having a heart doesn't get you paid in this kinnda of industry the longer you keep your doors closed the more people you lose whether it be for selfish reasons or not. No one is going to close a business unless the disaster directly effects there place of business. I mean look at Wal-Mart. . . . .