What to do while Final Fantasy XI is down.

[Crawlerbasher]

First of all I would like to offer my condolences to those affected by the recent Tsunami and Earthquake.

So the server for playonline and Final Fantasy XI are down.
Which I'm surprised it did not happen sooner.

So what to do in place of Final Fantasy XI?
Post your ideas here.

Well I've got this planed for the coming week/s.

Work on my website.
Use my ps3 to play games rather than a DVD, on-demand TV.
Deep Clean my Room.
Work on some PHP Projects.

[JagerForrester]

Let's just say I have a "To Do" list that never runs out of things to do

[Mirage]

I was thinking of trying out another MMO which has got a free trial, but I don't know which ones there are.

[Zazhi]

Personally, I don't think they should have shut the servers down. Call me insensitive, but tragedies happen every day yet we all ignore them and spend our time complaining that we can't get the empress hairpin to drop. If the Japanese can't be disciplined enough to conserve their own electricity, why should we have to suffer for it? That is something I'd expect from my fellow Americans, not a supposedly smarter society like the Japanese. If SE really wanted to prevent people logging on from Japan, it seems like they could block certain IP addresses or something.

A whole week. I might have to do something drastic... like omg read a book or something!

[Alkalinehoe]

on-demand TV.
Deep Clean my Room.

Pretty much this, except replace on demand tv with Netflix and add some video gaming.

[Unaisis]

What to do while Final Fantasy XI is down.

Wait... o.o

[Canadian]

Play some pokémon White or Black! I'm playing Golden Sun right now on DS... good game but the cutscenes are far too long.

[Mirage]

Personally, I don't think they should have shut the servers down. Call me insensitive, but tragedies happen every day yet we all ignore them and spend our time complaining that we can't get the empress hairpin to drop. If the Japanese can't be disciplined enough to conserve their own electricity, why should we have to suffer for it? That is something I'd expect from my fellow Americans, not a supposedly smarter society like the Japanese. If SE really wanted to prevent people logging on from Japan, it seems like they could block certain IP addresses or something.

A whole week. I might have to do something drastic... like omg read a book or something!

I don't think you're understanding the entire issue here. Japan lost two nuclear reactors, and might also have lost some of the undersea electricity cables from the mainland. Japan is an island nation, it is much harder to import electricity than it is for countries on the mainland. There simply isn't enough electricity produced in japan to keep every company's servers online all the time.

It is not to keep japanese players from playing, it is because SE themselves aren't allocated enough power to keep them running 24/7. Last thing I heard, there were controlled rolling blackouts all over the country, so that everything that wasn't a critical function like a hospital only was given electricity for a certain period per day.

S-E might have enough backup generators to keep a few servers online (such as the web servers and this forum), but probably not enough to keep the dozens of servers that are running FF11 and FF14 online without external power.

This is however off-topic, and the issue has been discussed to death in a number of other threads already.

[Siviard]

I have a 2nd interview for a really good job on Monday or Tuesday, so I have that to look forward to. I may also go and purchase Pokemon Black/White (haven't decided yet) and start working on that too.

I may also goof off on FF13 on the PS3. I've yet to totally fill the Crystarium on my completed game and I'm nowhere close to being able to fight the really cool NMs like that big Cactuar, etc. etc.

[Savannah]

I went bowling today