Servers are Down

[Abriael]

If I was a "Large Gaming Company" with over 10 million in monthly revenues between all services, I would have off site/off shore servers ready to go if a natural disaster happened. Yes this event is unfortunate, but business is business and they are unprepared to do business if a natural disaster occurred.

You don't get one bit of how servers of a MMORPG work right?

Even if they had a server farm already prepared somewhere (and it's no small feat considering that each "server" of the game is not a single server, but a server cluster made of multiple servers), even just the process of tranfering the data takes several days of preparation, and more days to be physically executed and finalized.

You sure didn't begin your adventure on this forum in a smart way.

[Aramil]

You don't get one bit of how servers of a MMORPG work right?

Even if they had a server farm already prepared somewhere (and it's no small feat considering that each "server" of the game is not a single server, but a server cluster made of multiple servers), even just the process of tranfering the data takes several days of preparation, and more days to be physically executed and finalized.

You sure didn't begin your adventure on this forum in a smart way.

^^^^This

Having backup servers off-shore would cost a lot in maintenance and employees for a situation that happen extremely rarely. We're not talking about a blackout, a fire or even a building collapse here but about an entire electric company asking not to use power unless needed for an unknown amount of time(the earthquake, tusnami were the trigger but this is what is causing the shut down.)

If you noticed, server were up today, meaning that the earthquake isn't the cause of the shut down, heck i find it impressive that after that kind of natural disaster everything was still running fine.