Version Update Delay

[armydud]

First to the people of Japan, my prayers are with you and I hope that your loss is minimal and wish you a quick recovery.

Second to the management of SE. You have an amazing story development staff and I love your games. Your IT sucks. Your implementation of MMO's has been spotty and I have to wonder why you don't have a Disaster Recovery Contingency plan like all well run IT shops have. There are lots of low cost options for server replication and servers on demand in cold/warm/hot site facilities. The down time and focus of your employees is very understandable and acceptable and as I said, my prayers are with them. However, if you were running your IT right we the end user would have had 48-72 hours of down time at the most.

I'm sure I'll get flamed for that second part, it's not too soon and someone had to say it.

wow um really? this post is so very selfish and unwarented and the poster should be ashamed to haave even mad the selfish remarks. since in fact SE will not be charging for the down time of the servers shows that they have no intention of screwing the end user over and how can you predict a disaster of the magnitude that hit japan aswell and the nuclear reactors being damaged and the nation calling for ppl to not waist energy atm which SE is currently compling with what the government asked them to do so please dont sit there and complain about the it ppl just understand they are soing what was asked of them by the government which they could have denied to do and we could still be playing but since they care about their nation they chose to shut down