Keep the 14 servers down. Save money/energy SE.

[Elkwood]

thats the thing, re-read your last sentence...its NOT profitable whatsoever right now (box sales are 1 time thing and not selling boatloads), like another guy said its pretty much in beta, so for quite some time we wont be paying for it, we are pretty much waiting on some major changes to the game, like large combat changes. why not keep the servers off, save some money and electricity and come back on when at minimal the big portion of the combat stuff is done (its going to be weird having stuff suddenly play differently all of a sudden anyways)

Why risk alienating 100k ppl which is what would happen 90% of the playerbase would walk away and SE would never make a dime on the game. But since you have a Masters in business, which trust is the first thing they teach you about... by all means please tell us what SE should do...

Also from my POV XI is a running joke ever since SE killed the game with Abyssea making it easier then wow and destroying 7 years of gameplay, so a XI fans perspective right now has no bearing on my care or concerns