Version Update Delay

[KimchanAsura]

Breaks my heart seeing what's going on in Japan. The last couple days ingame I kinda felt sick and not in the mood to play at all (was just idle in port jeuno wondering how many players ingame were in japan at the time).
God bless and God speed to the countries recovery and survivors.

<3 Japan

[Ritsuka]

Not realy cuz alot of ppl prob dont care. Its still a business and has to go on. Person stuff and business does not mix more then liekly this could put a dent in the company.

[faythless]

As much as I hope all the employee's of SE and their family members are safe, and I understand the crisis in Japan isn't something that people can imagine that this kind of devastation could occur so quickly. My prays and thoughts go out too all. But why delay the update?? Does the delay till April mean the servers wont be on till April?? This update was due for release when the servers where turned back on...

[Voldimort]

To the D-Bag Faythless, You contradict yourself with wishing well to Japan and in the same Breath only concern yourself with playing...Anyway, Hope You all in Japan settle everything with the horrific destruction out there first, the true fans will be here waiting for the return. As a thought, you guys should have offered the players the option to donate the monthly fee to the relief efforts over there...Create a page for a donation or something...Best of luck and my sorrow goes out to your beautiful country

[goduto]

I have no problem in donating this and further month's fees to Japan. Most people here in Brazil are looking everyday for news about the catastrophe that crushed your beautiful country. I've been there years ago and I love your way of life so I'll do everything to help... Final Fantasy will be back someday, now it is time to worry about the people's lives and not about game stuff! Come on people, let's do our part!

[Psxpert2011]

I think my donation to the Red Cross of Japan will help out, along with spreading the word of awareness. I'm glad this is being prioritized before gaming and business.

[Cenz]

To the D-Bag Faythless, You contradict yourself with wishing well to Japan and in the same Breath only concern yourself with playing...Anyway, Hope You all in Japan settle everything with the horrific destruction out there first, the true fans will be here waiting for the return. As a thought, you guys should have offered the players the option to donate the monthly fee to the relief efforts over there...Create a page for a donation or something...Best of luck and my sorrow goes out to your beautiful country

I have stayed out of the whining and a attacks on people being upset about w/e... But why cant someone offer sympathy towards the situation and yet voice they are upset they cant play... i will not bash u with names ... but lol these are forums ... say your personal peace leave it at that no need to call others names ... just makes u look like a d bag.. everyone is upset for many reasons and would take a truly cold hearted nerd to not give a sh*t about whats going on over there. its possible for people to feel for the country and feel upset something they put time into isnt here ... why is it so hard for people to understand that ... it doesnt make u selfish it makes u human to care about others / mixed with personal regard.... think about it ;p

[Flux]

Perhaps the latest events will cause SE to pause and extend a huge THANK YOU to all the international players who have supported the Japanese only world servers for all these years, and put up with consistent maintenance during peak hours, especially in North America.

This latest event proves a need to diversify servers and data geographically.

It is illogical to have all world servers in a clearly unstable Japan serving the world stage. This is a blow to Japan's integrity and ability serving the world professionally. The entire shutdown of all worlds could have been averted with a little diversity and intelligence in network implementation.

The real world does extent outside Japan.

I have no doubt that SE will loose customers over this.

SE network management implementation FTL.

[RAIST]

Unfortunately, there is a bigger problem. Because the gameplay is not divided regionally (ie only NA on these servers, EU on those, and JP only on these, they are all on the same server at the same time)--all the regional locations have to synch up somehow. Won't get into the specifics as it's been covered exhaustingly in the other dozen posts on this issue--but you would be paying a heck of a lot more than $13 USD a month to play it.

Raist

[Flux]

I'd be very, very surprised if such major companies such as Sony were to stop all operations because of events?

Cost is a non issue, I pay the same as a Japanese player to play the game, but I get far less play time because all scheduled maintenance favors JST.

Furthermore, we North Americans, in fact already pay more for a lesser service, as our pings to any and all of these world servers are terrible at best.

unprofessional. nuff said.