I am cutting them some slack..

I'm just saying that just because FF14 servers are shutdown and development is on hiatus, it doesn't mean that we players and forumers suddenly become these angels of mercy that don't tolerate anything remotely negative said about SE or FF14.

To further my example in my first post.. Everytime someone mentions the notion that SE should have had fail-safes and backup plans in case they had to shut down JP servers are almost always immediately called as "tactless" and flamewars ensue.. Thing is, as a business, I'm pretty sure this is what SE SHOULD have done, I don't see what's wrong with pointing it out. And I'm betting you that after they recover from this (and patched up FF14), one of the first things they will be looking into are ways to spread out their servers more.


Cutting SE some slack =/= not pointing out flaws in the game, etc. We're not expecting them to do much work, but we should not stop suggesting what could and should be done.