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[Dale]

Why not just move your servers temporarily over to one of your U.S. companies and run them from there where power is not an issue?

I think that be a much better solution then shutting down your game for like 2 months - because if you do that a lot of us are going to go find new games to play - and after bombing on FF14 I don't think you can afford to lose another wave of new players.

[CaelThunderwing]

Why not just move your servers temporarily over to one of your U.S. companies and run them from there where power is not an issue?

I think that be a much better solution then shutting down your game for like 2 months - because if you do that a lot of us are going to go find new games to play - and after bombing on FF14 I don't think you can afford to lose another wave of new players.

the Problem is getting there to move them Let alone, and its a major one. Bandwith. Japan has among the Fastest and "Broadest" forms of T1/T3 Internet. if they move the servers anywhere they haveto have an Net connection w/ alot of bandwith. Granted the XI servers are Still to this day rated for 56k, thats still alot of bandwith they need to serve everyone on every server around the world.

[Obivion]

I dont think they are worried too much about XI, XIV or other services at the moment.

There are slightly larger issues they need to worry about, and I think most people here will agree that whats happening over there currently takes priority than shifting servers anywhere. (And there are closer places than the US)

[Topdogg]

Why not just move your servers temporarily over to one of your U.S. companies and run them from there where power is not an issue?

I think that be a much better solution then shutting down your game for like 2 months - because if you do that a lot of us are going to go find new games to play - and after bombing on FF14 I don't think you can afford to lose another wave of new players.

How would you move them? airport is destroyed, and the last time I looked boats were upside down. The last thing they're worried about is moving servers. lol

[Dale]

How would you move them? airport is destroyed, and the last time I looked boats were upside down. The last thing they're worried about is moving servers. lol

Topdogg, most of japan is still perfectly intact, and there are many functional airports through-out the country. Let's not exagerate shall we.

[Lushipur]

for sure, after everything is quiet, they will start to think what to do to start making money again (1 month stop = 4m dollars loss only of ff11).

now is not really the time to start thinking about a silly game...

[Dale]

Seriously? You want them to move the servers half way across the world, and then back again in a week or two? Really?

Rog, please...people fly back and forth between japan and california on almost a daily basis - square could easily move the hardware to their headquarters in california if they needed to. BUT - i was fooled by a friend of mine that services had been suspended till the the middle of May, so i was somewhat the victim of a cruel prank

[rog]

Rog, please...people fly back and forth between japan and california on almost a daily basis - square could easily move the hardware to their headquarters in california if they needed to.

Oh right, because if people can easily get from japan to California and back, then CLEARLY they can easily move hundreds (thousands? i dunno) of servers there, set them up, find an isp willing to provide them a dedicated 1 gbps+ line, installed same day, and canceled 1-2 weeks later, set the servers up, get them running, and then pack them up a week later, and fly them back to japan.

Sure, sounds plausible.

[Dale]

Oh right, because if people can easily get from japan to California and back, then CLEARLY they can easily move hundreds (thousands? i dunno) of servers there, set them up, find an isp willing to provide them a dedicated 1 gbps+ line, installed same day, and canceled 1-2 weeks later, set the servers up, get them running, and then pack them up a week later, and fly them back to japan.

Sure, sounds plausible.

Well Rog, if it's only a week then you have a point - but like I said, i was a victim of a prank and was under the impression the suspension of services would last well into May.

But I still think Square could make the move if they needed to without too much hassle - but if it's still just a week i agree, better to just wait it out.