One week is too long bring back FFXI NOW

[Mojohand]

Either the OP was a troll (and I'm not taking the bait) or an imbecile (and I'm not going to lend credence to his post with a direct response).

The shutdown, to me, reemphasized the inarguable, immutable fact that FFXI is a game, an amusement and folly that exists nowhere other than SE's cluster of servers. Those who forget that fact, and cling to FFXI as though it were something real and meaningful, do so at their own peril.

Honestly, I felt creepy playing during the period between the earthquake and the shutdown, knowing that all hell was breaking loose outside the server on which my placid little fantasy world resided.

With an appropriate adjustment in billing, of course, I wouldn't mind SE shutting the game down for a week every quarter: players could reconnect with their lives and SE could work on the game and infrastructure without the pressure of five-nines uptime. The only downside I could see is that once some players are forced to find another diversion -- or, perhaps, rediscover reality -- they may not come back to the game.

Just my $0.02...

[Hyperon]

Either the OP was a troll (and I'm not taking the bait) or an imbecile (and I'm not going to lend credence to his post with a direct response).

The shutdown, to me, reemphasized the inarguable, immutable fact that FFXI is a game, an amusement and folly that exists nowhere other than SE's cluster of servers. Those who forget that fact, and cling to FFXI as though it were something real and meaningful, do so at their own peril.

Honestly, I felt creepy playing during the period between the earthquake and the shutdown, knowing that all hell was breaking loose outside the server on which my placid little fantasy world resided.

Mojohand makes the best point so far. It just dawned on me that people troll on FFXI as well, silly me :P

[hiko]

6.7 -> 8.9 is just over 2 whole points.

10X then 10 X again is 100 x right?

it's been a hella long times since hs. ; ;

yes but 100% more powerful is not 100 * more powerfull,it is 2*

[Pixiehawk]

yes but 100% more powerful is not 100 * more powerfull,it is 2*

egads. I'm an idiot today.

[JagerForrester]

Wah wah, you go live in the disaster. See how you like playing FFXI with a house on top of you, literally crushing your insensitive brain.

[Pixiehawk]

Some facts here.

Size of Japan : 145,925 square miles
Size of California : 163,696 square miles

So the country is a little bit smaller than the state of California, and they can not just drive across the border into another state, or borrow electricity from their neighboring states easily. I'm sure they can do so, but I'm sure the grid across country lines is no where near as extensive as it is over state lines.

Populations:

California : 37,253,956
Japan : 127,360,000 (yes, that's almost over 3x)
Tokyo : over 30,000,000 (so yes, almost as many people as the entire state of California, in the city and it's suburbs)

With those numbers just imagine how much more power Japan uses than California does. I'm sorry, my time in FFXI is in no way, shape or form more important that a hospital that I'm sure is overwhelmed in Japan right now. Nobodies time in a video game is more important than that.

The quake that hit Japan on the 11th was a 8.9 or a 9.0

The Northridge earthquake in 1994 was a 6.7 (the quake in japan was over 100x more powerful) and caused $20 billion dollars damage. 11 hospitals had to move their patients elsewhere and overburden the hospitals that were still operational. Freeways were collapsed making travel difficult (but not impossible). And there was no Tsunami after.

Japan needs every bit of power it can get to help those hurt in the quake and tsunami - and then to help make sure something like the Valley Fever breakout that happened after the Northridge quake does not happen there.

If it turns out they need to keep the servers down longer than a week I'm fine with that. Until they can say for certain that my playing time will not cause a power outtage due to the disruption caused by the quake/tsunami where a single person would be hurt in any way I say keep the servers down.

[Psykotic]

i have no problem with them shutting down for a week, there is more important things to power then some silly server like hospitals and temp housing for displaced families. besides when they do bring servers back i should have atleast 21 more traverse stones to waste farming in they crack zone of abyssea.

[Alhanelem]

(the quake in japan was over 100% more powerful)

Each whole number increase in the Richter scale is a tenfold increase in power over the number before it (it's a logarithmic scale). a 8.9 is a lot more than 100% more powerful.

[Pixiehawk]

6.7 -> 8.9 is just over 2 whole points.

10X then 10 X again is 100 x right?

it's been a hella long times since hs. ; ;