My thoughts

[Shura]

the main reason the servers had to go down was not because of the power required to run the servers but because of the power being used by the thousands of players in Japan who log in. One of the strong points of FFXIV and FFXI is that the game is international so even if the servers were located outside japan, as long as japanese people could log in, then power would be wasted.

The last few threads on ffxiv sites have been just sad and disgusting to look at, as a result of this disaster hundreds of people are dead and hundreds more are missing. Some people really don't understand the gravity of the situation, people are dead... innocent children are dead... and in comparison people are bitching about not being able to play a game for a week. If your life is so meaningless that a week of no FFXIV is gonna kill you of boredom then i think the root of your issues lie elsewhere and not with the servers going down; Maybe you should take this week to go out and make some friends.