I usually don't troll on posts, but anyone who disagrees with the servers -- edit*going down for a week*/edit -- is ignorant [Removed by Moderator according to the FINAL FANTASY XIV FORUM Guidelines.]. Here's some helpful points.
1. Natural disasters can lead to more disaster.
2. If the Nuclear power plant melts down and we have another Chernobyl, we us Americans should be concerned because our West Coast will be affected from the fallout. This could be via Air, or the more likely the radioactive isotopes that will get into the ocean and effect all of Hawaii and the shores of the west coasts' of North and South America, as well as any marine industry.
3.Japan (as I've already seen stated in previous posts) is part of the Energy Conservation Act. If they as a company do not abide by the order given to them, then they in turn would be shut down and FFXI and FFXIV would no longer exist for anyone.
4. As more tremors follow, with computers and servers running, the hard drives being jolted around at any point in time could cause any of them to give out, weather they are the game servers, login, lobby, or test servers or any server being run with the original game that is running for continual development could go down and be totally destroyed and unusable. Hence, this could prevent one game from being back up in a couple of day, to a couple of month.
So anyone else who doesn't agree with SE or can't feel any kind of sympathy for Japans current crisis, please [Removed by Moderator according to the FINAL FANTASY XIV FORUM Guidelines.].
That being said, I'm sorry if my language offended anyone, but sometimes the truth hurts. If I get banned from the forms or reported for what I'm saying here, so be it. I don't think anyone has the right to say that SE shutting down the servers during a time of crisis is right, and I'll take being banned out of a forum any day of my life for giving my two cents about the ugly souls who are against this kind of decision.