Servers possibly being shut down temp.

[Rowyne]

Well said, MarkH. Beautiful post.

[the_limitless]

OMG, Japan's earthquake is that bad that the game servers need to be shut down, first time in my life. I hope the casualties and damages in Japan can be minimized. Also hoping that the energy used for the servers can somehow lessen the problem there.

[Melodicya]

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[Reika]

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Sorry! ><;

[Rockne]

Holy shit a mod in my post.

I hope it doesn't get too... Bananas around here.

[Abraxai]

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This. Some of the posters in this thread are absolutely disgraceful and should be removed from posting. We are all entitled to our opinions, sure, but anybody of the opinion that this is anything but a humanitarian attempt at saving your own people is an absolute IDIOT.

This situation is absolutely horrible, anybody following it would agree whole-heartedly and I fully back SE's decision to close the servers for a while.. Shutting down as heavy-on-power a service such as FFXI+FFXIV must help a lot of people in a lot of ways, and there's nothing greater a company like Square could do at present.

Remember. We're losing game time, sure, but square are losing a LOT of money, however, the people of the world are more important than the characters of FFXIV.

Just suck it up!

[tragic]

I didn't read every post. The few that I did have me thinking to myself, I am quite disappointed.

[Tristan]

I don't think SE should be apologising, cause this is simply out of their hands. If the servers need to be shut down to help those people in Japan it doesn't need any kind of excuse doing so.

All the best SE!

-Tristan

[Aramil]

I've only read the first post and the one on page 11 so I might be repeating what was already said but about the server down, it doesn't mean they don't have backup.

First of all let's disregard the data backup and just talk about server backup. Those can come in many form.

- It can be the use of multiple pieces in the same server so that if a part of the server break, it can still be use while the broken part is switch.

-It can be unused backup server in the same server room that are there to take over when a server have a problem.

-Can be the use of multiple server room in different building so that even in case of fire or something similar to that the server can still be running.

There are other possibility but those are the main ones.

In the current case, the server shut down is due to the electric power company asking for it's customers to reduce their usage of power. Even if SE have backup server, without electricity those can't be use. They might have a generator but those are mad for blackout, not for 24/7 usage.

What the shutdown mean is that they don't have backup servers outside of the area that get it's electricity from TEPCO and there's nothing wrong with that. A situation where an electric company can't assure it's service for an entire area for a prolongate and unknown time is quite rare. A server backup in another area would need maintenance and employees to maintain it. Unlike backup in the same room or a close by building, it's a lot less cost-efficient. Sure it suck that the game is going down for a week and yes they'll lose money because of that but in the long run for the frequency at witch event like that occur, not having backup servers outside the TEPCO area wasn't necessary a bad decision.

for the tl;dr, SE probably have backup server, but if they're in the TEPCO area they can't be used so it suck that the game is down but that kind of situation is extremely rare.

[Kafeen]

my points
1. Stuff like earthquakes happen all the time.
2.There should be back up servers in EU and NA locations.
3. I don't have to stop playing any other games but this one.
4. The only thing that should be discussed in the discussion forum for ffxiv is ffxiv things. I don't know of this national crisis you speak of.
!!!! Move the servers. Fix the game.

1. Earthquakes and Tsunami may be fairly common but not of this magnitude. You don't get cities wiped off the map every day. There's still 10,000 people missing from Minami Sanriku alone.
2. Its expencive to keep servers running. This is the first time they've had to be shutdown since they were started. Its not really viable to keep extra server hosting on the off chance of a disaster like this.
3. Then do that.
4. This has affected FFXIV and the players of FFXIV. Therefore, its relevant.

If you don't like it, leave the game, leave the forums. I doubt you'll be missed much around here.

There are much bigger issues than your ability to play a game.

They missed new zeland, hit hard too. but i regress. fffxiv should not be affected by earthquakes.

Yes, New Zealand had been hit by earlier quake too and Japan sent rescue teams to help people there. These were only withdrawn to return to Japan after they got hit with their own quake and tsunami.