1 More Day till SERVER "Restart"

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Originally Posted by Bam

Hey what time is this update they are giving its 6pm in usa already.

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it's only 10am in Japan.

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Originally Posted by Bam

Hey what time is this update they are giving its 6pm in usa already.

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There was no time given. Just a date. (it's already the 22nd in Japan. 10 am at the moment.)

"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."

So, sometime today, (well, their today), we should have news.

Impatient people. It's highly unlikely the game will be back up quite yet anyway (But I'd love to be proven wrong).

Any news yet?

The only real change in the situation is they have power cables hooked up to some of the reactors but not all of them.
They have also stabilized most of them and now have reliable water to cool them off, so temps are either holding...or declining. But they are not out of the woods yet, so I would be surprised if SE turned the servers back on today.

+1 for regional servers ^_^

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Originally Posted by Vix

The only real change in the situation is they have power cables hooked up to some of the reactors but not all of them.
They have also stabilized most of them and now have reliable water to cool them off, so temps are either holding...or declining. But they are not out of the woods yet, so I would be surprised if SE turned the servers back on today.

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Actually no. The situation changed a lot lately. There aren't only the nuclear reactors. Tepco managed to reactivate some thermoelectric power plants earlier than expected, so the energy situation is improving regardless of the fukushima reactors.

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+1 for regional servers ^_^

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No thank you. I'm not in any way eager to lose the international environment and go back to the extremely antiquate setting of playing only with my neighbors. It doesn't make the slightest sense in the era of globalized internet.

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Originally Posted by Abriael

No thank you. I'm not in any way eager to lose the international environment and go back to the extremely antiquate setting of playing only with my neighbors. It doesn't make the slightest sense in the era of globalized internet.

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Another reason I like playing FFXI was because it feels like a more in depth world since your not only playing with people around you. Personally always thought dividing people was kinda stupid. I guess some MMOs have their reasons...

:) Well if they go up, Im happy!
But Im not crossing fingers.
Well find out in a few hours non-the-less.

Hope they do!

i cant wait for further announcement,hope they put the servers up again today...

To be honest, I'd prefer more info on the next patch and companies than anything else. They can open the servers whenever they feel like it. I'll still be around.

Argh I really wanna play FFXIV, in fact I need it!! It's my addiction! <-- lol for not using am inappropriate word

It is possible they might get the servers up this week, Tokyo has had power steady for the last few days, according to cnn. The reactors that are a threat are north of Tokyo, that being said, the main problem right now is the radiation leak from those reactors, all though the Japanese media is stating the radiation is only a concern 30Km from the reactors which is far away from Tokyo, other sources are stating that the radiation leak is far worse than the local media is reporting and has been detected as far as the united states. Words can not describe what the Japanese people are going through right now, this disaster is horrible, and my prayers go out to all the people of Japan. I wish I could do more to help out, so far I donated some money to red cross and bought few copies of ff14 today. If any1 has any other ideas how I could help out more please let me know.

Not really expecting server to go up 22nd, but hoping for extended update on the situation, future patches, and etc.
Starting server back up will be both business/political decision, but at least SE could do it put up some plan for future and keep the fans somthing to look forward to other than server restart :p

I'm not in any rush. It's not like I can't find other things to do while this gets sorted out. I'm not about to give any estimate of time it "should" take them to get everything up and running, as I have never had to deal with a natural disaster of this large of scale. However, until they know it's 100% OK to get everything back up, they should keep the servers offline to help with the energy issues.

If the power problems seem likely to persist for a month or more, I wonder if they would consider relocating the servers? If they set up a new server cluster in say Austin, TX, the server would be roughly equidistant from both Europe and Japan.

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Originally Posted by Dreamer

If the power problems seem likely to persist for a month or more, I wonder if they would consider relocating the servers? If they set up a new server cluster in say Austin, TX, the server would be roughly equidistant from both Europe and Japan.

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And really close to me! Can't say I disagree with this proposition. :)

OK, back to refreshing lodestone main page and announcement forums looking for update..

why Texas?

Hong Kong or Europe please!

Nothing yet....

just 1 AM in Japan now

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Originally Posted by Evangela

just 1 AM in Japan now

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try 1pm
which is still early, we have the rest of their day to hear something, and even then, we can be patient if they dont get to it today

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Originally Posted by Evangela

just 1 AM in Japan now

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1pm in japan actually

5 am here, a friend and i cant go sleep without knowing when the servers will be online XD

ok, it's PM

my bad, sorry, no one use AM PM in my country, so I mess up with it all the time :)

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Originally Posted by Ashgarth

1pm in japan actually

5 am here, a friend and i cant go sleep without knowing when the servers will be online XD

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XD I'm kinda in the same boat, I want to go sleep but at the same time I want to see an update from SE before I do so.

go to bed...

they are prepare announcement for temporary suspend extension lol

I must have checked 'top page' on lodestone 300 times today, god I have it bad for 14.

LOL I'm doing the same thing

nothing out yet >.>

due to many users flooding on the lodestone top page, we're out of electricity so we have decide to extend the temporary suspension for 2 months

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Originally Posted by EQ85

I must have checked 'top page' on lodestone 300 times today, god I have it bad for 14.

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+1 same here ^^

I know SE said JST time zone, but the original post was in PDT time zone before they did the follow up. Could be possible they meant to say PDT time zone as almost all posts by SE on the English site is always in PDT time zone.

Hello, just killing some time untill they announce the extension of when the servers will be up

It's nearly 2 PM there so unless the time was a typo I think it's a bit doubtful the servers will be back up.

This is taking sooooooo loooooong. The suspense is killing me. :)

Heya Jar!!! ;D /wave Yup looking forward to the next announcement too lol.

*sits in game twiddle thumbs waiting for people to get on*
















*realizes hes in wrong game*

I'm going to bed, Hope you guys get an update soon ^_^

told myself I'd wait till 12:00AM CST.. that time has passed.. good luck noble warriors who are choosing to stay up :b

must..wait for...update..

We will re-evaluate the situation on Mar. 22, 2011 (JST) <<<< what mean (JST)

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Originally Posted by Kaboushi

We will re-evaluate the situation on Mar. 22, 2011 (JST) <<<< what mean (JST)

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Japan(ese?) Standard Time, meaning it is the 22nd there already, but its the 21st here is the ol' USA (PST)