Square Enix - PLEASE READ

[rog]

The perma solution would be to move the servers to Texas.
An area like San Antonio to Austin has no weather, no nothing. No tornados, no earthquakes, no ...... anything. Hardly even rain. Central-South Texas is immune to weather effects, and taxes, it's where a lot of companies HQs are, including Microsoft Xbox. (North Texas gets snow, South texas gets rain).
And, Texas has incredibly fast internet, it's where U-Verse launched. Plus, it's halfway between east and west coast.

Looking at the wiki page for U-verse, it looks like their best plan is 3 mbps up? That isn't even close to usable, and it sure as hell is not fast.

Fyi, you can get 1 gbps up/down for under $100/month in japan.

[MarkovChain]

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.

Why would they move servers to US when they could do it in china which is much closer and much cheaper, do you think you are the center of the world ?

[Vivivivi]

Exactly. SE will get the games online as soon as they can. I'm certain many of the SE Japan employees are dealing with much more serious issue right now, let's remember SE is made up of people, many of which were either affected or have family/friends that were affected and continue to be affected by such a terrible tragedy. As soon as they return to work as usual, and have the means to restore FFXI/XIV without affecting energy scarcity, I'm certain they will. Everyone please accept this and consider donating your April fees to the Red Cross earthquake/tsunami fund for Japan.

In the meantime, we can entertain each other on here and be thankful the forum went live and is still up even though the game is not. ^^

[Rocman]

Exactly. SE will get the games online as soon as they can. I'm certain many of the SE Japan employees are dealing with much more serious issue right now, let's remember SE is made up of people, many of which were either affected or have family/friends that were affected and continue to be affected by such a terrible tragedy. As soon as they return to work as usual, and have the means to restore FFXI/XIV without affecting energy scarcity, I'm certain they will. Everyone please accept this and consider donating your April fees to the Red Cross earthquake/tsunami fund for Japan.

In the meantime, we can entertain each other on here and be thankful the forum went live and is still up even though the game is not. ^^

Well said!

[GERM]

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please stay on topic of the thread a lot of threads have been locked because of a simple phrase like this in sighting arguments instead of topic related posts..

I personally don't know how SqEnix does thing so yes this is going to be IMO but I don't think there is another location for them to move things to, yes do to the situation over in Japan I don't think there is a possibility of transporting computer/gear/employees to another country not to mention all the financial difficulties it would bring to just simply up and move there are protocols in airports/sea ports and I think too much electrical / computer hardware would require permits and what not and basically would be a waste of time by the time they did do that chances are the servers will be up and running.. Even if it was to move to china (hypothetically) or australia.. and relocating would also require the property aspect to do this, do they have a building or land purchased or usable in another country to do this? I think no matter how bad we want this to happen SqEnix wasn't prepared for a situation like this to come about and you really couldn't foresee this happening either.. So for future reference if SqEnix has the resources and capabilities of doing it to appease the fan base they may create a secondary server in another location where it wouldn't be directly effected by the conditions in japan.. but like I said I don't see them moving this is feasible or even possible for a short term situation as they are stating.. Now unless your the fortune teller from jueno we would have to assume this is going to be a month shut down at most but long term if the situation isn't resolved then maybe SqEnix will decide to relocate even if temporarily ..
Are they reading this some ask? Yes they are they are monitoring these forums still and they have put their input in on occasion (like i said they have locked 2 threads today that ive seen) at least of ways of the admins and dev team at least..

[Sureal]

3mbs is not usable?

wow, spoiled much? i had to play on dialup for about 3 months, so trust me, 3mbs is MORE than enough

and unless your seeding for torrents, 3mbs is more than enough for pretty much anyone

[rog]

3mbs is not usable?

wow, spoiled much? i had to play on dialup for about 3 months, so trust me, 3mbs is MORE than enough

and unless your seeding for torrents, 3mbs is more than enough for pretty much anyone

You seriously think 3 mbps is good enough to run ffxi's servers, with upwards of 50k+ connected at once? That'd be 61 BITS per second per user. No, that is not even close to usable.

A single 1 gbps connection wouldn't even be enough.

As far as personal use, i've got 5 mbps up myself, and no, it's really not enough. Even when i'm not seeding torrents, i easily cap that out, and wish i had more. If i had the money, i'd definitely pay the extra $50/month ($100/mo total) it'd cost me to upgrade to 100/15. Which still wouldn't be enough for me.

[Sureal]

You seriously think 3 mbps is good enough to run ffxi's servers, with upwards of 50k+ connected at once? That'd be 61 BITS per second per user. No, that is not even close to usable.

A single 1 gbps connection wouldn't even be enough.

As far as personal use, i've got 5 mbps up myself, and no, it's really not enough. Even when i'm not seeding torrents, i easily cap that out, and wish i had more. If i had the money, i'd definitely pay the extra $50/month ($100/mo total) it'd cost me to upgrade to 100/15. Which still wouldn't be enough for me.

sorry, my fault, i read that as personal game, didnt connect it to servers, disregard my previous comment, having a brain fart day