Minimise the downtime please.

[Kavik]

FFXIV.



No i'm saying that these things should be being put into action if there is any indication that this could be a long term thing. Square US could rent servers and a few JP staff that know how to do it can hop on a plane with backups from the main servers and head to w/e to run the game from there or hand the torch over the america staff to do it. This is a multi million dollar game that brings a lot of revenue into the company not some small fry thing. Do you really think FFXI could not be run from the american office?

If FFXI and FFXIV will be down for 1-2 months it will have a horrible impact.

What is there is no plane to fly them because they're all shipping washed up bodies here or there or dropping aid to people on hospital rooftops where people are dying of starvation? Think a bit before you say stuff that is only related to money.

[Vivik]

FFXIV.

I knew you would try to play that card. Fortunately the development staff of 14 had nothing to do with the server shut down. Their thinking was ass backward and have since been replaced by competent people.

[Meril]

I mean just the fact alone there holding back the game due to PS2 hard drive space issues is rediculus... Im gonna go with a game thats interested in moving forward for long time.

[Vivik]

Oh and just in case you missed the whole tsunami/airport thing here's a vid. Hope in your world they have seaplanes for those servers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DSSssHxm4Y

[Kavik]

I mean just the fact alone there holding back the game due to PS2 hard drive space issues is rediculus... Im gonna go with a game thats interested in moving forward for long time.

Yes moving forward for a long time like FFXI has been doing for the last 10 years? I've been playing 7 and my husband has been playing since the NA release, they are considering the feelings of the players, like my husband, that began on ps2 and still play on ps2, this shows more forward thought then losing a large chunk of their fan base because it's no longer on an easily (to them) accessible console. Most of us on the front lines of a recession don't have the spare funds to just randomly go buy a ps3 or xbox 360, that money is better spend on our non-existant health care systems. So you just go play WoW, we players with loyalty shall remain here.

[Meril]

Im sorry u still play on PS2... thats why unlike WOW they give many console options.... upgrade already....

[Kavik]

I play and have always played on computer, that wasn't the point of the post, think about someone other then yourself. WoW also offers the ps2 option, so they can't be THAT advanced They probably don't have problems with the ps2 because WoW doesn't have the depth of content we oldschool players enjoy.

[Meril]

oh I diddent know wow was for ps2 ... XD sorry bout that

[Runespider]

I knew you would try to play that card. Fortunately the development staff of 14 had nothing to do with the server shut down. Their thinking was ass backward and have since been replaced by competent people.

Im saying that a huge company like Square can sometimes have no idea wtf they are doing and make a horrible mistake that could have long standing effects on the entire company. They put out an important game in such a state that it has become a laughing stock. Which negates your argument.

I really don't care how long they take to come back up.

I wonder if the staff at SE or the families of those staff that are directly linked to these 2 games and that could lose their jobs due to a bad decision share your feelings on this.

As a bad example, lets say mcdonalds closed all there stores down nationwide as an act of sympathy for 9/11 for a month, (yes i know it's different but it's gives an idea). In that time the customers that frequent there had to goto burger king instead and gained a taste for that, to the point of prefering it. Then when Mcdonalds opened again the amount of customers dropped by 10-20% leading to widespread staff cuts, you think everyone including the mcdonalds staff would be so appreciative of the thought behind the store closures now?

Square have offices across the world, it's not some small fry games company. I don't think it's that far fetched to think something this important that makes as much money as it does could probably be run from one of them for a short while till things settle down again in Japan.

[Odintius]

Played on ps2 also and moved on for sole reason of when SE was saying ps2 limitation this and that so I wouldn't be a person holding back any progress of content that could be added if wasn't for those limitation's.