My sympathies to everyone in japan who has been affected by this disaster
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My sympathies to everyone in japan who has been affected by this disaster
Oh people know, they are just patiently waiting for them to come back up (like me). Video games are one thing, but serious matters that involve human lives such as natural disasters tend to be much more important. I for one will remain a loyal fan :] I love this game, servers going down for a week or two is nothing compared to the amount of time I will get to play in the coming years.
I and all Japanese people very thank for many support of world people and countries.
Kanto-region (including Tokyo, SQUARE-ENIX located) is now under electric power shortage.
This is caused many electric power plant using fossil fuel in Kanto-region was offline, or working 50% output due to damage of the earthquake. (All of nuclear power plants in east are shutdown).
Then Kanto-region was divided in 6 areas (No.0 to No.5) and No.1 to No.5 areas are suspension of electricity service by turns.
(No.0 area is central of Tokyo, and it is not the suspension area)
(SQUARE-ENIX located in No.0 area. SQUARE-ENIX can be supplied electric power 24 hours, but they turned off game servers to help Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPC))
There are some reasons to interrupt power recovery in Kanto-region and Tokyo.
One of there, A.C. power frequency is different between east and west in Japan.
Of course, three frequency-transform institutions ware prepared, but those transform capacity is one million kWh at the most (and already fully supplying). Kanto-region needs 10 million kWh or more to prevent the cycle power suspension.
TEPC will lose 4 or more nuclear reactors, and it means Kanto-region loses 4 million kWh or more elec power source.
After a week or so, most power plants using fossil fuel will return normal output.
All of those plants located ashore, so fuel will supply by tankers.
However, 30% of elec power supplied from nuclear power plant in Japan, and all of east nuclear plant will not start operation shortly. It is clear that people living near nuclear plants oppose those starts, even if the reactors not damaged.
I have no idea when elec power supply back to normal in Kanto-region.
This is not only SQUARE-ENIX problem, but also all over Japan.
I hope when elec supply of fossil fuel power plants start, SQUARE-ENIX also starts their servers.
Best wishes to Japan and all that...... BUT.. if the roles we're changed and a tragedy happened in the US and servers were located in say... California .. Do you guys think that A.) SE would shut down servers, without finding a way for Japanese to log on, while the NA players are offline and out of commission? I mean, to be honest, SE does cater to Japanese traditionally. And B.) Do you think that there would be THIS many Japanese players telling the NA developers/servers to take their time and actually donate to the cause? I can see both sides of the coin on this issue and just getting bored of every thread saying the same thing. Either way, I would appreciate SE to hurry with re-booting the servers. I'm sure we can all agree to that.
If the servers are where the disaster hits there is no way around it unless you have a "insert disater here" prrof power station persoonally supplying your building only with power. SE would still shut down the servers regardless of who is effected.
Nobody is being catered to at this time, its just the Japanes playerbase is more involved then we are, look at the player polls, when it comes to decisiveness we US players fail. No we all cannot agree on such a selfish thought, I have nothing to do while XI/XIV is down but if SE decides to keep server down til next year I would not complain.
Take your time, guys. Sent donation already, my thoughts and prayers are still with you.
I'm so glad that FF team is OK!Quote:
We have confirmed the safety of all our team members
We're glad to hear that your team is ok! Our best wishes and prayers to all of you in Japan, and especially to your team members who have been personally affected by the disaster. Please do not feel the need to apologize or rush to get everything up and running and releasing patches asap - recovering from major disasters are infinitely more important that the 'suffering' caused by having to wait to play a game. Best of wishes to the SE team and to all of Japan, take care!
I am also very glad to know that the SE team is ok. I am praying for you all in Japan everyday, and also especially to the members on the team that were affected by the disaster. and ya there is no need to apologize what is more important is everyone's safety in Japan and for everything to go back to normal. I will continue to pray for everyone there and I send my best wishes as well to everyone there and SE's great team. Stay safe.
I really feel very pity about the last things happen to Japan...I hope with all my heart that everything goes well with the nuclear reactor.I was always interested in Japanese coulture and history.I thing Japan is one of the most beautiful countries in world and the peolpe who live there.I was always a fan of the SquareEnix videogames and I wish the quicker return to life before the earthquake...the last thing that matters now is when are we going to play ff14 again...JAPAN I WISH YOU COURAGE!!!!
In solidarity with Japan, from all Kuwait players.
We love you Japan.
On behalf of my family and I and I'm sure I speak for all members of Beacon...we would like to offer our sincerest condolences and prayers to any and all children of God that were affected in this horrible disaster that happened in Japan.
Of course I'm sad that FFXIV is down but please...everyone in Square Enix should be focused on family and their own well being. Any player complaining about the game being shut down should really look into their hearts and souls and realize the gravity and severity of what really happened in Japan and what could happen. This message goes out to SE, take your time, take care of your family and your country first and foremost and then when all that is settled and ONLY when all that is settled we would love to see you back on the grind into making FFXIV the best MMORPG ever created...I have confidence that SE and their nation will bounce back with renewed potency and strive. For all those who are wondering yes I am a proud American Citizen but I am also a child of God. SE...hug your children and wives, take care of your country and community then come back and kick ass. Any TRUE Final Fantasy fan will wait as long as it takes...all you fake, heartless zombies go back to playing WOW, i'm sure they are expecting you. I apologize if I offended anyone but I have been an avid SE fan way back before they were SE. Final Fantasy will live on forever and you already know.
Just wanted to update everyone on Japan's current situation.
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As workers at Japan's quake- and tsunami-stricken Fukushima I nuclear power plant struggle to bring a seven-day-long crisis under control, engineers Thursday finally installed a cable to connect the plant to the utility grid. This would enable workers to reactivate massive pumps that can provide high volumes of cooling water needed to keep damaged reactors and exposed assemblies of spent fuel cool.
According to a statement from the International Atomic Energy Agency, Japanese officials alerted the organization to the development and said they would hook Unit 2, one of six reactors at the plant, to the line first as soon as workers finish spraying water on Unit 3.
The development offers hope that the jury-rigged cooling system that workers have been forced to use in the Japan nuclear crisis will be replaced by the system originally designed to cool the reactors and spent-fuel.
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Meltdown 101: a glossary of nuclear terms
This comes as concerns have mounted along America’s west coast over a plume of radiation from the plant that could reach the skies over California as early as Friday. The prospect reportedly has triggered a rush to drug and health-food stores to buy potassium iodide tablets, which public-health officials say can reduce some, but not all, of the health risks posed by excessive amounts of radiation.
The concerns have largely arisen among the general public – not among many public-health officials and emergency management officials.
If an accident at one of California's two operating nuclear power plants led to a release of radiation, potassium iodide pills would go out to people living within a 10-mile radius of the plant, according to Kelly Huston, assistant secretary of the California Emergency Management Agency, in an interview with Bay Area affiliates of NBC News.
By contrast, the plume from Fukushima has had to travel 5,000 miles. Along the way, the plume – carried along by high-altitude winds – disperses as it broadens. Radioactive material in the plume, which survives the journey, has had time to decay.
If the plume were to remain corralled in a relatively small volume for the entire trip, it might pose problems along a similarly narrow corridor below it, some researchers say. But "the idea of transporting something thousands of miles so it would be contained would be a miracle in itself," says William Marlow, a nuclear engineering professor at Texas A&M University at College Station.
Still, reports are emerging that global supplies of potassium iodide pills are beginning to vanish as Americans buy them up, notes Edwin Lyman, a senior scientist specializing in nuclear energy at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington.
"Given the fact that Japan is thousands of miles from the United States, it is highly unlikely that Americans would be exposed to radioactive iodine from direct inhalation of a plume from the Fukushima nuclear complex," he said in the statement, adding that potassium iodide is used to counter inhaled radioactive iodine.
In the region surrounding the stricken plant, however, high radiation levels remain a deep concern.
On Thursday, pilots with Japan's Self Defense Forces as well as police temporarily joined workers at the plant in efforts to douse reactors and spent-fuel pools with seawater to keep them cool. Four of the six nuclear reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima I plant have been damaged by explosions and fire following last Friday's magnitude 9 earthquake and ensuing tsunami.
Spent-fuel pools associated with the damaged reactors appear to have lost some or all of their water, allowing the highly radioactive spent-fuel assemblies in the pools to spew radiation into the environment and to heat up. If the fuel gets too hot, the cladding that encases the uranium fuel burns, releasing additional radioactive byproducts into the air.
The overwhelming geophysical disaster left the plant, whose reactors automatically shut down during the quake as they were designed to, with no electricity from the wider grid to keep cooling systems running. The tsunami neutralized the plant's emergency generators and the stored fuel they need to operate, leaving the plant without emergency power.
Japanese authorities have evacuated people living within 12 miles of the power plant and have posted an additional six-mile zone where people must stay indoors if they elect not to evacuate. A 36-mile-diameter no-fly zone has been set up with the plant at the center. The US ambassador to Japan, John Roos, has urged Americans living within 50 miles of the plant to remain indoors, hunkering down in a shelter-in-place mode.
Although a transpacific plume of radioactive material triggers images of the globe-circling plume from the explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in 1986 in what is now Ukraine, that event differs considerably from the Fukushima crisis.
The risk of contamination beyond the region around the Fukushima reactors – especially as far away as the US – "has got to be extremely small," says Peter Caracappa, an assistant professor and radiation safety officer at Rensselaer Polytechnic institute in Troy, N.Y. "The biggest reason for that is in thinking about how that material is being released into the atmosphere," he says.
At Chernobyl, the reactor, made of graphite, exploded and burned in a building with no shielding surrounding the reactor. The force of the explosion and extreme heat from the burning graphite sent plumes of highly radioactive smoke and gas some three miles into the sky, where upper-level winds could begin transporting the substances over long distances.
At Fukushima, damaged reactors remain encased in their steel-and-concrete containment structures. The radioactivity is being released as workers vent steam from inside the reactors. Thus the plume initially travels at the whim of lower-altitude weather patterns, which can disrupt and disperse the plume more quickly.
So far, the Japanese haven't released detailed information on the relative abundance of radioactive elements that the plant has been releasing. Still, the components that raise the most concerns include radioactive iodine, a gas; radioactive forms of nonreactive gases such as krypton or xenon; and radioactive cesium, Dr. Caracappa says.
Weather patterns provide an opportunity to loft some of the plume to altitudes where prevailing winds can ship it eastward. As low-pressure systems move across the plume, they can loft the material to altitudes more favorable for long-range travel.
Meanwhile, each day the material remains in transit, the radioactive elements have been decaying – if rainfall or even so-called dry deposition haven't removed the material first.
Thus, specialists say, the long journey and dispersion of the plume, along with radioactive decay, so significantly reduce the risk of increased radiation levels at ground level and at thousand-mile distances that while radiation from the incoming plume will be measurable, it is highly unlikely to rise to the level of an additional public-health risk.
Thank you for your encouraging words!
I seem people all over the world are worrying about the situation of reactors in Japan.
Japan government has been passive to making information of nuclear accident. So it has made people uneasy. We want to say sorry for about that.
If you want to read official reports of government, refer this site (in English).
http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/index-e.html
At this point, 7 nuclear reactors of two power plants have problem.
There are four reactors in Fukushima Daini (“Daini” means “No.2” or “2nd”) nuc power plant. 3rd reactor succeeded in being shut down safe and rest of three reactors also were shutdown automatically. The problem is core cooling of those three was not enough, but it is not serious that condition of those reactors at this time.
Fukushima Daiichi (“Daiichi” means “No.1” or “1st”) nuc power plant has 6 reactors. 4th to 6th reactors have been shut down before the earthquake for regular maintenance (but now the 4th reactor has a problem).
Most experts on nuclear engineering thought that nuclear fuels (that is called Core) of 1st to 3rd reactors have began to meltdown, but they said final shield of all reactors are not broken yet.
The only hope is to resign all of 1st to 3rd reactors and inject water into those shields to cool down core and prevent being broken reactor shield.
Injecting sea water seemed succeed at 1st reactor, but at 2nd and 3rd reactor, the operations had many troubles and lagging behind.
Elec company has tried another method 2 days ago.
It uses high-pressure water spray car and helicopter to jettison water on the reactors.
Radiation level near the reactor is 400mSv/h max.
Information about radiation unit can read at Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert
It is so far from safety level. However, evacuation area (20km) is enough to decrease radiation level.
In these 2 days, it is increasing radiation level at all of Kanto-region (including Tokyo), but all sensor reports very few radiation level. Then people in Tokyo do not have to evacuate.
You can see real-time radiation level near the plants below link (in Japanese).
http://www.atom-moc.pref.fukushima.j.../C0013-PC.html
(ATTENTION: Please do NOT leave this site opened. Graphs are automatically reloaded and it may increase this site traffic)
Green character shows nuclear plants (right one is Fukushima Daiichi, left one is Fukushima Daini).
Showed time is JST (UTC +9 hours).
Top graph shows transition of radiation level today, middle shows a week, bottom shows a month.
Blue line shows sensor reports; red line means the highest level of radiation level from sensor settled (Most red line shows Tokai-mura nuclear criticality accident in 1999). Light blue graph area means rainy.
If you live in US, also refer below report.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...-fallout-risk/
I’m very worrying about workers in the plants who belonging Japan Ground Self Defense Force, Tokyo police, and Tokyo Electric Power Company.
They continue cool-down try under dangerous radiation area.
And I am also worrying people belongs America’s Navy No.7 to continue rescue mission near the plants.
I want to say thanks all of them from my heart.
Just installed a new graphics card yesterday, looking forward to trying it out on FFXIV *hint hint* Hope that we all are able to play on the 20th or 21st *crosses fingers*
I hope you can recover fast from that Nightmare. I´m with you, and i hope most family´s find together soon.
Greetings from Austria.
I have already posted on french forum but, I just wanted to say here again:
Please, forget the game for now and please, focus on your families and friends. Japan is a great and powerful nation, I'm sure you would be stronger after all that disaster but for now take care of yourself. Any decent person can understand your pain and you difficulties, so please don't apologize. I think I could talk, in name of all the french players from FFXI and FFXIV:
Take care of yourself, families and friends, work can wait...
We are all praying for you and your country. Gangare Nihon!
I am a Japanese.
Thank you very much for all of your kindness.
I can feel that many people in the world are worrying about a crisis in Japan,and Japan is not alone.
It would give us much power to stand up again!
In Tokyo,severe power failure is happening,and it causes FFVIX to shut down.
Electric power in Tokyo depends on Fukushima nuclear plant so much,and substitute electorical power is weak.
This problem seems to continue at least until end of April,so FFVIX's down may continue very long.
As a Japanese,I'm sorry for causing so much trouble to players in the world,and for making you worrying.
The situation is still fluid,especially in nuclear problem.
If things would go worst,I may not be able to come back here.
But I believe brave people in Fukushima nuclear plant,and pray their safe return with success.
And after this crisis we must stand up to repay your favor.
I'm looking forward to meet you in FFVIX again.
Please give us a little more time.
I am worried abotu several friends in Japan, a few must be moved to shelters or tokyo. CHrissy, David, and their daughter got relocated, Moved first north then evntually corp flew them to take up office in Hong Kong, then David has to return to Tokyo. THe orginal office more north I think is gone.
Wishign everyone well, nerves are so frayed.
My heart goes out to all of our Japanese brothers and sisters who've been affected by this disaster. I wish you all a safe and quick recovery!
Hey guys just wanted to ask if anyone knew about car companys being up and running aswell as others that req more electricity. I personally already donated to the jp cause but im still asking myself does it take that much power to run a server and why are cars still being produced it seems the hardest places hit where the farmer lands not the main citys like tokyo. So how long till u can turn ur server on? and why 3 days from now you really think jp will be back on its feet in 3 days i think se should cut the bs and give us a solid date that that way i can decide if i should quit this game or not. That being said what ever happen to Nintendo and rest of companies some didnt even bother stopping production and se cant keep a server up.
いいえ、とんでもないです
Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad to hear you are safe. Please take your time, and take care of your families.Quote:
I'm looking forward to meet you in FFVIX again.
Please give us a little more time.
I also look forward to meeting you in FFVIX again.
お体を大切に
Here is a video I saw on someone's blog about the nuclear reactors. Its kinda funny and might help ease the pain and worrie a little bit. At least I hope it does :]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=5sakN2hSVxA
Japan is in my thoughts and prayers. Please be safe!
私の思いと祈りが日本です。
Joe_Cool
USA
As someone who was in Christchurch (New Zealand) during our earthquake last month my heart goes out to all the families in Japan and those that have already fled.
While we don't have to deal with radiation (we have no nuclear power stations) we are still getting aftershocks daily (most of us barely notice anything below 4.0 now) so I can empathize with people dealing with these now.
To Yoshi-P and the rest of the Square-Enix team in Japan: Take your time getting the game servers back online. Those of us that want to play, will play once the servers come back online and to hell with anyone that doesn't have the patience or emotional maturity to wait. And while you've become something of an uncle to many of us through your "Letter's from the Producer" you shouldn't worry about us, focus on your immediate family and let your extended family take care of itself.
Teal Thanatos
IDK if this got posted but
Below is an update regarding the temporary suspension of the FINAL FANTASY XIV, FINAL FANTASY XI, and PlayOnline services.Originally, we announced that the services will be temporarily suspended for about a week starting on Mar. 13, 2011 3:00 (PDT). However, due to ongoing issues with the lack of energy, we have decided to extend the suspension until Mar. 22, 2011 (JST). We will re-evaluate the situation on Mar. 22, 2011 (JST) and provide everyone with another update regarding this matter.
Condolences to Japan for not only the earthquake/tsunami but also the subsequent nuclear crisis at the Daiichi plant. They are a very important part of the worldwide community and our hearts to out to them. A few days/weeks/months/years of not being able to play one of their wonderful products is absolutely nothing compared to what they are going through right now. Thank you for even thinking of us, but please, take care of your own right now.
*Unsubscribes to FFXIV* Not worth checking the Lodestone for updates daily on this matter any longer .. May as well give up on the game, it's now officially doomed.
Yeah no *** man.. I think I'm just gonna cancel FFXIV after work today. I have a RL and cant sit around and wait for these updates. The game wont recover anyways, and if it does, it will be a long time before it regains the momentum it was beginning to pick up. I'm in total agreement with you.
I think on Tuesday they will tell us either A: They initiate the restart or B: The servers will stay down for an indefinite period of time. Sadly, option B is more than likely at the moment and understandable by all means.
There the door :) Have a nice life. There no need for type of ppl like you on ffxiv anyways :)
All joking aside posting that you leaving and saying all this mean jack you be back when the game get better 90% of ppl who say there quiting come back anyways lol.
Btw it's a hard time in japan if you can't wait then go play something else i hear Rift is pretty nice or you can play wow or just buy some xbox or ps3 or w/e system you have and buy some games. Or save all the money and help out japan or just save up and buy something nice.
OH! I have the solution to the power issues!! Mako Energy!!!
All my love to Japan, Canada has you in our prayers. We feel your pain, and hope for the very best for you all.