If the servers are down for a while will people come back?

[Xatsh]

It is a fact some people will quit, I expect maby 5-8% will quit if it goes much longer then a week. Mainly the ones who log in like 3-4hrs a week or what not. The people we see everyday in game I would be surprised if they left over this.

As for development delays, I expect some major ones. As in I would not expect another update this month. If they are having to shut down servers, I have a feeling they are not going to have a 100 person staff on PCS all day either. That and they are working on much more lucrative titles which will bring them 100s of millions guaranteed I am sure have priority above FFXIV in a time where they have to limit development.

[Abriael]

As for development delays, I expect some major ones. As in I would not expect another update this month. If they are having to shut down servers, I have a feeling they are not going to have a 100 person staff on PCS all day either. That and they are working on much more lucrative titles which will bring them 100s of millions guaranteed I am sure have priority above FFXIV in a time where they have to limit development.

Development has nothing to do with the servers working. No internal testing is done on the public servers, and their internal test server can easily be kept working, as it consumes just a fraction of the electricity used by the whole server farm (it may eaily be shut down just when there's a planned outtage).
Also, game development teams don't overlap. The games which "will bring them 100s of millions guaranteed" have their own development team that will continue to work exactly like the FFXIV one.

The very fact that they actually enlarged and strenghtened the development team bringing in people FROM other teams, is pretty much an indication that the development of FFXIV is a priority for SE.

Other games bring in "100s of millions" only once. MMORPGs has the potential to bring in millions over a much longer timeframe. So it's pretty much a priority for SE to bring the game to a condition in which it'll become a revenue source.

Oh, and I just learned that the first round of outtages in Tokyo has been suspended since shortage of energy is not as bad as it was hypotesized, so the situation may improve in the next few days.