Regarding the crisis in Japan and the FF14 forums.

[raffyv]

I am cutting them some slack..

I'm just saying that just because FF14 servers are shutdown and development is on hiatus, it doesn't mean that we players and forumers suddenly become these angels of mercy that don't tolerate anything remotely negative said about SE or FF14.

To further my example in my first post.. Everytime someone mentions the notion that SE should have had fail-safes and backup plans in case they had to shut down JP servers are almost always immediately called as "tactless" and flamewars ensue.. Thing is, as a business, I'm pretty sure this is what SE SHOULD have done, I don't see what's wrong with pointing it out. And I'm betting you that after they recover from this (and patched up FF14), one of the first things they will be looking into are ways to spread out their servers more.


Cutting SE some slack =/= not pointing out flaws in the game, etc. We're not expecting them to do much work, but we should not stop suggesting what could and should be done.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

sorry ran outa room. but we handed them out to everyone as away for us to be calm and united as american citizens. Infact it was my shops class clown who found out 9/11 happen and we told the school we all thought he was joking.

[Efrye]

[...] Thing is, as a business, I'm pretty sure this is what SE SHOULD have done, I don't see what's wrong with pointing it out. And I'm betting you that after they recover from this (and patched up FF14), one of the first things they will be looking into are ways to spread out their servers more. [...]

And I'm betting they won't.

1. It would cost a huge amount of money and would not only make server maintenance more difficult but also more prone to errors.

2. In very rare exceptional cases like this one, when they have to shut down the servers in one location, they would most probably still have to suspend the whole service. They can't operate the game with only half of the servers. And they would get even more complaints if some people could play while others are put on hold for a week.

The main reason why other MMO operators spread out their servers is to reduce latency. This is certainly a valid reason, but in my opinion hardly worth the drawbacks for a PvE focused game like Final Fantasy XIV.