Level 99 jobs: THF, WAR, SAM, SMN, WHM. Haste is overrated. Ok. Not really. But that's what you all think I believe anyway.
Seriously guys, you'd complain no matter where the servers were. Japan is facing a crisis that will take years to recover from, maybe more if the reactors meltdown.
Moving the servers state side would be a bad move maintenance wise. As I said on GW, has anyone ever had to phone a NOC to get a machine repaired? I would honestly extend our current maintenance timeframes from 10hrs roughly to up to 2 days. Software upgrades wouldn't take that long, but hardware upgrades are another issue.
So please think of the bigger picture, and not just yourself. I'd be really surprised if I don't hear of some class action lawsuit being filed against SE by some idiot because of mental anguish caused.
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No, assume for a second all of the hardware to run this game is located in one building (probably an off-site backup). Assume for another second all of the hardware is subject to the power company's request to turn off non-essential equipment. Assume for another second still all of said hardware is subject to the rolling blackouts while they get things fixed. Said location isn't safe to conduct business from. If that's the scenario (which is likely), you're not simply going to set up a redundant datacenter w/o it being subject to the same conditions currently present meaning some sort of physical move would happen. You don't have to look any further than the recent POL hardware maint. to see that this is likely how they have things set up.
It's like someone else said earlier, SE likely has a plan and they're giving it a few days before taking action. Sorry to say, a bunch of people being able to play a video game probably isn't at the top of their concern list at the moment and rightfully so. If that pisses you off or makes you angry despite getting free service, you got bigger things to worry about than FFXI.
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Meril I will ask this before I get all defensive.... Are you saying I'm not smart enough to understand what your saying?
I do recall saying earlier that if its not something they have in place now then so be it I can understand that. I also said that if SE were talking about something that could be set up in the future, you know the whole live and learn thing, to prevent this from happening again then I am fine with that idea as well.
Getting this riled up over something that you can't do anything about has got to be bad for our health.
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And yet you continue to read my posts. I'm not really concerned with you reading my posts, actually. I just want to make sure others don't believe your nonsense.
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no kindra, just wanna focus on the facts, and future. from a buisness perspective. but yes, they should have ahd a backup plan in ANY case! its just responisble buisness for a company that sees 6M + in revinue off 1 game alone in 1 month...
Its not 6M revenue, it's tax deducted, at least a third has to cover the servers costs, and lets not forget the employee's salaries, whatever profit they make is going to future content/updates, there's not enough to host back up servers on top of that, lets not forget the water cooling and electricity costs either.
Dear SE, can my character be black? I find this pro-white to be offensive.
AGAIN
for a company that provides serviceis to 6 CONTONENTS .... there backup plan shold NOT even have to DO with JAPAN!
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