Temporary Suspension of the Services Due to an Earthquake

[Alhanelem]

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[BurnNotice]

Damn, that was a tough call. Personally, I would rather for you guys (SE) to get some sort of stability first. Besides having to conserve power by cutting backing on things, including the usage of the A/C, there is a possibility that the servers may go down again. Well, I hope this idea was well planned. Not saying the servers should stay down longer, but I hope there isn't any gray spots in this idea to be over looked.

[Sethimothy]

Yay! Looks like the energy crises has found a way to keep its head above water and the servers can go back up. Everything is going swimmingly.

Never mind the fact that blackouts continue to be a problem, and even more energy could have been saved with these new energy cutting methods plus keeping the servers down another week.

Ah well, if I see any Japanese players on, I'll be sure to greet them warmly. Just not with a /wave, they hate that for some reason.

[cnedra]

try a /bow

[Ronalas]

Working with no ac half lighting to go to a shelter afterwards doesnt sound great to me. But i can see the other side of the coin. Going to work would allow some sort of normal activity and allow people to take there minds off the disaster. I say take your time and dont rush the servers back up just to turn them back off.

[Guardian]

Greetings from Carbuncle! Let me just say I returned to FFXI after taking a couple month break from the game. I am a veteran player and left and returned with bitter-sweet feelings. I enjoyed my time off but, but missed my friends and the COMMUNITY feeling that SE has provided us with in playing the game WE choose to pay for. If you aren't happy with their decision, BOYCOTT them then. To the people at SE, I hate abyssea, I think it ruined this game, but please take care of yourselves and families and don't rush anything on behalf of some of the idiot americans I'm sorry to have to share this country with. So to all of you selfish, simple-minded fools, I hope SE decides to cut service till June just to give you all time to seek the professional help you need. It is disgusting to see players of a game that relies on teamwork and community to show such childish behavior. It is disappointing to see what I thought seperated us from WoW players seems to be a bunch of BS.

You want to give any particular examples, or you just posting to be insulting? And the -entire- game isn't built around co-op play, or they wouldn't have made a solo oriented job like BST. Frankly, I hate dealing with people 90% of the time, because of people's 'childish behavior'. If I ever seem hateful towards others in game, just think of this. Been on since 2002, on three servers, with at least 30+ dyna LS's. And I STILL DON'T have Windy OR Jeuno wins! Some fkin idiot ruins the run towards the end EVERY time. So yeah, I get sick of people easily. Ok, off topic, going back to bed. Later. ~.~

[Namo]

cool game! for gukumatz from japan

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[IT_76]

With all of the flaming and sympathy going on, I believe there are some things being overlooked. SE is a multi-million dollar corporation. The company I work for is also. SE is down. My company is not. My company is based in Hong Kong. While I understand that Hong Kong isn't in Japan, that certainly isn't the point. The point is that a global company that relies 100% on its servers for revenue should have backups in other countries. For most educated IT leaders, that's just 'common sense'. I think SE just realized that perhaps the costs involved with disaster recovery might be worth it, and they currently look like amateurs. They haven't updated anyone on the current status. Their main site still says it's down for maintenance. The Playonline portion of the application still tries to connect without any appropriate feedback about the earthquake. If we measured their company by the rule of nines, I wonder where they would fall this year? Is there any idea on when it's going to come back up?? They said a week and it's been longer, but I guess looking as if they have an idea of what's going on would be too much to ask?

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With that said, I do feel bad about natural disasters happening. It's a horrible thing.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

With all of the flaming and sympathy going on, I believe there are some things being overlooked. SE is a multi-million dollar corporation. The company I work for is also. SE is down. My company is not. My company is based in Hong Kong. While I understand that Hong Kong isn't in Japan, that certainly isn't the point. The point is that a global company that relies 100% on its servers for revenue should have backups in other countries. For most educated IT leaders, that's just 'common sense'. I think SE just realized that perhaps the costs involved with disaster recovery might be worth it, and they currently look like amateurs. They haven't updated anyone on the current status. Their main site still says it's down for maintenance. The Playonline portion of the application still tries to connect without any appropriate feedback about the earthquake. If we measured their company by the rule of nines, I wonder where they would fall this year? Is there any idea on when it's going to come back up?? They said a week and it's been longer, but I guess looking as if they have an idea of what's going on would be too much to ask?

http://www.informit.com/guides/conte...ment&seqNum=90

With that said, I do feel bad about natural disasters happening. It's a horrible thing.

SE is not 100% dependent on their servers, and sorry but there was no way for a company to prepare for something like this, hell they did, but not to the degree of what really happened. Also we do know when the servers are coming back up, it is tomorrow.

[RAIST]

With all of the flaming and sympathy going on, I believe there are some things being overlooked. SE is a multi-million dollar corporation. The company I work for is also. SE is down. My company is not. My company is based in Hong Kong. While I understand that Hong Kong isn't in Japan, that certainly isn't the point. The point is that a global company that relies 100% on its servers for revenue should have backups in other countries. For most educated IT leaders, that's just 'common sense'. I think SE just realized that perhaps the costs involved with disaster recovery might be worth it, and they currently look like amateurs. They haven't updated anyone on the current status. Their main site still says it's down for maintenance. The Playonline portion of the application still tries to connect without any appropriate feedback about the earthquake. If we measured their company by the rule of nines, I wonder where they would fall this year? Is there any idea on when it's going to come back up?? They said a week and it's been longer, but I guess looking as if they have an idea of what's going on would be too much to ask?

http://www.informit.com/guides/conte...ment&seqNum=90

With that said, I do feel bad about natural disasters happening. It's a horrible thing.

I am guessing you haven't read a lot of the posts on this forum. All of this has been hashed out in exhausting detail in other threads...so here is a bit of a recap for you:

They've been working on a reduced crew, as a considerable portion of there staff left the area to be wtih family or went back to their home nations. They share power with critical systems on their same grid (practically neighbors with both a hospital and a police station). Government and power company requested they consume power in their 23 story building, so they complied. It was a decision reached in roughly two hours, not a whole lot of time to take action to replicate all their data on short notice. This has been the only incident to hit Japan on this scale since before SE was even an idea, much less constructed (many say the worst since 1923). They most likely did some sort of cost analysis towards off-site replication of their 4 divisions housed in that building, but determined the cost was too disproportional to try to replicate 30+ servers running two-way data transactions data gobally to 500k+ users at any given time off site in another country, and likely elected a localized backup strategy instead.


Oh, and by the way....they already announced two days ago that servers come back online on the 25th....in roughly 8 hours. They are going to be cutting off many features throughout the building--including the building's main AC system and reducing the amount of lighting used-in order to offset the additional electrical load folr running their servers.