Supporting Japan's rebuilding process

[Freyane]

[Please players translate this message in German and Japanese]

Good day everyone.

Each of you probably saw the picture coming from Japan. Each of us also probably felt powerless, unable to transform our desire to help into actions. Japan kneeled down, but it will rise again.

I thought about a way that each of us could use to help Japan to rise again. Our governments handle it, we hope as much as they can. Looking for survivors, clearing kilometers of devastated sea coast, cool down nuclear core, heal injured people,: all that require specialists, teams, organizations. All that is beyond our power.

Then I thought again about Final Fantasy XIV, about the shutted down servers since a few days. I thought that each of us play without paying. In normal times, I understood that the need of enhancements to add content requires a time that most of us didn't want to pay for. I thought then about the economy of Japan, its world importance and to the huge loss created by the disaster, for many insurance companies in the world, but first of all for Japanese people.

And suddenly I thought that paying to play Final Fantasy XIV wouldn't be such a bad thing. That the money collected this way could be partly or entirely given by Square Enix to another organization or any structure that will support Japan's rebuilding process. This act of generosity could be temporary.

Yes, I'm making the proposal to start to pay subscription fees for Final Fantasy XIV. A fee that would make «,sense,», that would grant each of us this feeling that each month we are giving something to the Japanese people, subjects of this terrible disaster, for the pleasure they gave and give us to play with this game. Terms need to be defined. An option to choose to pay or not could be a good start. I hope that Square Enix will read this message and will see in it an occasion to give us, individually, the chance to help Japan's rebuilding process.

[DavidLocksley]

I agree. I am willing to start paying for this game. I have already bought 1000 crysta. I hope for those who want to contribute, maybe just buy your crysta early...

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

I'm willing to pay for the game. I'm enjoying it in it's current state and look forward for more to come!

[Riv]

Not yet. But hey, if you want to help then donate the amount of money you would have already paid at this point to play FFXIV if it hadn't been made free.

[Argh]

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Yes, I'm making the proposal to start to pay subscription fees for Final Fantasy XIV. .

uh, no.

they don't need money. they can print their own money. it's a government.

if you want to really help out put yourself on a plane and head on over there to donate your time and labor. they can use as much man power as possible to clean up regions affected. i am sure there are humanitarian relief efforts goind on right now for the area.

[Kotee]

"If you fall down 99 times, rise 100." (I believe this is an old Bushido/Japanese proverb?)

[Freyane]

If you want to really help out put yourself on a plane and head on over there to donate your time and labor. they can use as much man power as possible to clean up regions affected. i am sure there are humanitarian relief efforts goind on right now for the area.

That's exactly what normal people can't do. Like everyone I have obligations, work, studies. The all point of this suggestion was that : do what we can at our level.

[Evangela]

I think japanese people have a lot of pride and very strong will, they accept our wish but not our donation... if you sacrifice your seat on the bus or train for japanese elders, they'll get mad. so we just pray for them and they'll recovery themselves soon, good luck japan

[Quanta]

Yes, I'm making the proposal to start to pay subscription fees for Final Fantasy XIV.

Please stop. If you really want to support Japan, have people donate directly to a disaster relief charity (This one, for instance, as I found via Japanator) as opposed to some half-assed approach that's little more than a thinly-veiled attempt to get your favorite game back up and running.

[Eiyaya]

i am pretty sure that japan will have enough money on their own to pay for their rebuilding.

This is Japan, not china. Having 17 trillion and still ask the -17 trillion country to donate money for rebuilding. Lucky, samurai isn't from China.

Japan is the real place for samurai. Think of their pride, they would have their ministry commit seppuku if they accept your money especially Americans who blew up half of their country a little more then half a century ago to rebuild.

Now if you donate directly to Red cross, that's another story since the money is use to keep red cross function not rebuilding.