square enix should have (and i was told they did) have us based servers i was told this by a gm in game i would like to know what happened to those servers dont get me wrong i know japan is in trouble but at the same time depending on how long it takes to fix it we may be out of service for a year or more and if the reactors do in fact melt down there will be a massive loss of life property and the area will become un inhabitble not to mention the servers where all of our info is stored will be destroyed and we would have no more ffxi so in conclusion to all the rescue and repair teams focus on gettime the reactors safe first our game can wait and once it back up and running backup servers would be a great idea