Temporary Suspension of the Services Due to an Earthquake

[UltraBlackone]

Somehow I doubt that trollers will be banned for just what they say here. If that were the case I think most of them would be gone already. One can only hope though, right?

[JagerForrester]

One can only hope, yes, but not likely they will be banned for expressing their feelings or opinions. Just makes it hard for the moderators to sort out the trash with the posts that matter to SE.

[CaelThunderwing]

been trying to raise awareness of whats going on inside Secondlife in some of the FFXI Groups that exist there. and w/ the April billing statement they are likely stating that as we can bet that XI wont be back up anytime this month.

[Fiarlia]

So glad that one thread was locked. Thank you Senior Game Master Jhanaka.

[Starcade]

So glad that one thread was locked. Thank you Senior Game Master Jhanaka.

Yes. Agreed.

Some of these jackalopes need to come into reality. And now, to help do that, I'm going to say something which is going to be considered inflammatory to some:

People had better get their minds wrapped around the possibility that XI and XIV may never come back.

Anyone who's seen some of the pictures and videos out of Japan (and has been reading the news, especially on the nuclear power situation) has to put that possibility into play.

You've got these malcontents who are, at the least, stirring up the pot by acting like complete inhuman savages, for just a one-week outage.

What if that's a month? Six weeks?? Permanent???

[bramble]

My thoughts are with all those suffering in Japan right now. I hope you will soon be able to leave this tragedy behind you and i wish for a brighter future for you all. <3

[Starcade]

And you guys better get used to this. It now appears that rolling blackouts in parts of Tokyo may last at least a month, according to information from Reuters that I've been reading in other sources.

[CaelThunderwing]

And you guys better get used to this. It now appears that rolling blackouts in parts of Tokyo may last at least a month, according to information from Reuters that I've been reading in other sources.

thats probbly a good indication why we're getting credited for April. as they are expecting it to last that long.

[myrla-elphaba]

thats probbly a good indication why we're getting credited for April. as they are expecting it to last that long.

My friend (who played FFXI very very very long ago, was working outside Sendai, and left earlier this week when the 7.+ went off - his company gave everyone the rest of the week paid off and told them to go down to Tokyo) has communicated to me that they have been told that rolling blackouts will be fairly normal measure from now for a "long while" (translated from French). that is - Indefinitely.

For those who might not understand this - it's not always a scheduled thing, or able to keep to the schedule - so even if servers were turned back on, there would be chances of the power being cut almost all the time. It's beneficial to EVERYONE to keep the servers down - no corruptions or loss of data, etc. I hope that makes sense.

as for the previous comment, I think I was misconstrued a bit, so I'm going to clear up:
I haven't had a job since Dec. 09. I've logged in maybe 2x a month in the last 3-4 months. I've been playing since 04. I fund my FFXI entirely on selling on half.com and other venues. I understand financial hardship on that realm.

And no, I'm not saying SE should go back on their word - I'm saying I'm wondering what the responses would have been had they decided to do a mass donation instead of taking the profit for a month.

I'm hoping many people (at least, in the US) will just do the easy thing, and donate $10 via their cell phone or whatnot - it's still less than you would have paid next month, go grab a soda with a friend this week with the rest.

PS: Muito obrigado, SGM Jhanaka for closing the other thread- it's nice to see you again as well, you have always been nice and fair.

[CaelThunderwing]

@myrla-elphaba if it come sto that SE may stil relocate the servers to a stable part of Japan as granted we wanna think they care and they do but they also have to think on a buissness end of matters, if they just poof like that decided to keep the servers and End XI and XIV they will take a gigantic hit.if things are down for 3 months likely, they will as a small joke <Jumping to new area> <server> <camp>