If the servers are down for a while will people come back?

[Rowyne]

1. While the servers could be down for more than the projected week, I doubt it's going to be months. That's getting a little carried away.

2. I've been waiting the past few months for things to improve, and will keep on waiting. In the meantime, I'll be playing World of Warcraft. WoW and I have an on-again off-again relationship.

3. While I can't forgive SE for releasing FFXIV in the state they did, I can forgive them for the current circumstances. This is beyond anyone's control. And I don't think taking down the servers necessarily means that game development has come to a halt. Even if it has, again, it's totally understandable.

I'll be back!

[Zenaku]

I have not been playing much due to many reasons at home and the game not being that fun at my level. I did play from Release too 2/15/2011 for many hours per day. I can say i play more FFXIV then i did when i first start playing FFXI. I be back for sure when they open up again. At least now this give me time to read up on my anime and many other stuff i been not doing.

about the game development has come to a halt i don't think it be a 100% halt but do see a dalay too they fix the problem and things get better. I think they still going to work on the game and still do many other stuff.

[Nephera]

eh if they released a patch on relaunch they'd rope a bunch of people back in to see what the fuss is all about

[OJtheLIONKing]

I already took a multi-month break and came back, and I have a backlog of games to get through (Renegade playthrough of PS3 Mass Effect 2, Fable III, Dragon Age 1 replay and Dragon Age 2), and I have been playing WoW the entire time I've played FFXIV because sometimes leves aren't enough to satisfy my MMO itch. SE definitely did the right thing by doing this to their servers, although sites like Sankaku Complex, in their never-ending hatred for this game and SE, have framed this as some horrible intentionally bad decision. Everyone needs to give a bit, especially in Japan, and SE is doing maybe more than their part by doing this.

I do, however, recognize that MMO gaming is like a drug, and it works best when you don't have to take a break. I took a break from FFXI and haven't been able to get back into it because I just don't care enough about the new gear and stuff to go through the obscene amounts of grind. Here's hoping if the game is down for more than a week, the dev team has a new minor or major patch to lure back players.

In any case, the servers of two MMOs going down for a week is a minor worry compared to everything going on in Japan right now. I'm thankful that most of my Japanese and expat friends lived in Tokyo and the Kansai and were thus relatively unaffected, but I do have a couple in Iwate prefecture that I'm worried about. When I think about that, whether the servers are down a week or two just doesn't really worry me.

[Lissandra]

I don't understand why a question like this is even being asked? Of course people are going to come back. In droves? In small waves? I wouldn't know, but people are definitely going to be returning - me included.

EDIT: I apologize. I didn't mean to sound rude, but I've been seeing threads like this pop up in places... It kind of got to me. XD

[gifthorse]

Who are you?

Also, Baby Cakin is teh rights ;O

Someone on Lindblum you probably don't know.

[Gulkeeva]

I wouldn't know about XI but for ffxiv they will be, I mean if you've been playing this long still, a week "break" won't stop them from moving on forward when it comes back up.

[Celyia]

After the servers come back up, I suspect that you'll have a higher number of players than usual logging in to check things out just because they'll be curious how the disaster and the lapse of time have affected FFXIV. Whether or not they'll actually stay is a different question all together.

The thing is, the longer the servers are down, the more people you'll have that will have invested their time and energy elsewhere. During this time, they will find other things to do and other games to play. This isn't their fault. It isn't SE's fault. It's just the way people are. Now I don't think a week will be a huge problem - you'll likely suffer some loss, but the curiosity factor may pull some people back in. But anything longer and FFXIV will probably be hit hard.

You can throw your hands up in the air and say "Well, we didn't need them, anyhow. We don't want them here.", but that's incredibly short-sighted. For a game like this to work, you need the casuals as well as the diehards. You'll need enough players to make running and improving this game financially worthwhile to SE.

It's a sad situation and I feel bad for SE.

[Evangela]

It's a good timing for me

I temporary quit playing it a week ago and planned to comeback after the next update (hope they're working on it while the server shutdown then release it immediately when server is up)