Server Backups and Happy Players

[Flunklesnarkin]

I think ffxi as a whole is a good experiment

It shows why regional servers work better than "everybody plays in same server" type system

regional servers don't eliminate rmt but they do make it a hell of a lot harder for rmt farms in china/korea/india/etc to function

they don't knock out the game for players from another region so you wont feel guilty about rushing another country after a disaster like this lol

and people don't have to worry about all the jp onry bull.. or american's harassing the french or w/e else might pop up

I can understand the jp onry stuff.. people want to play a game.. not struggle to understand other's language.. regional servers would eliminate that.

[Celedh]

Personally, this reminds me of the issue that was brought up recently.

My brother's house burned down, taking away with it most of his things, including the computer and hard drives he had. Thing is, on those there was some pictures and videos of my niece. A portable, external hard drive is a great idea, but if the only backup of it is inside the same house, it's not useful. Having backups is great, but they need to be kept somewhere else.

So I recently got myself a USB key of 16gb, just for the purpose of storing my personal data outside of the house. I keep it at work. I figure that if both my apartment and work were to go down in fire in the same day, there's some higher power at work that wanted me to lose that data no matter what <_<