Quote Originally Posted by Keith_Dragoon View Post
Whether they were forced or took it upon themselves to decide, in a time like this who are we to question those who are in the middle of such a dissaster? Personally I would make the same call, they could have friends/family in the affected area, they could be shutting down servers so they can go help out the relief efforts. I would rather not take a chance of a random power outage nuking my servers, damaging data and such just because other people in my area are running their stuff at max.
I certainly can't disagree that they're are possible employees who may use this downtime to take care of loved ones, however I think I need to point out that SE HQ is in tokyo, they will not be seeing any power outages so worrying about it happening is pointless.