Let us speculate on when the servers will be back online

[Shikyo]

I think it's likely that they are losing money, though.

Potential buyer of XIV: I want to buy this game *holding copy of XIV in hand*
Gamestop employee: The servers are down, so buy this copy of Rift instead

I don't know how much it would add up to, though. Especially since not many people are buying XIV right now.

everyone knows the state of this game so i doubt ppl were at gstop with a copy of xiv and rift trying to decide lol

[Elaguila]

everyone knows the state of this game so i doubt ppl were at gstop with a copy of xiv and rift trying to decide lol

I bought both D:<

[Seif]

Why can't they fire up a new server in the EU or US? It's a roomful of computers how much can something like that cost to SE?

[whoopeeragon]

@Abraxai: Yea, they're building a new power-line, and they're also working on the line which got disabled by the earthquake as well. But with 4 plants nuked, there's only so much Japan's power-grid can support without those to supply energy as well.

EDIT: Argh, I keep writing your name as Abrazia. Sorry!

[Abraxai]

@Abraxai: Yea, they're building a new power-line, and they're also working on the line which got disabled by the earthquake as well. But with 4 plants nuked, there's only so much Japan's power-grid can support without those to supply energy as well.

EDIT: Argh, I keep writing your name as Abrazia. Sorry!

<3 :P

I don't think 4 reactors is that much in the scale of how many Japan actually has.. However their location is just devastating.. But I'd assume they could re-route from elsewhere, or re-rereoute less make-shift-ly once they're not under the pressure of avoiding Chernobyl Mark II.

I could be wrong, but I'd say a week on monday max.

[whoopeeragon]

Please then, Seif, offer your living accommodations to them so they can move them over to where ever you are and provide the necessary accommodation for the personnel that need to come along with them. Oh, and you may want to also go over to Japan yourself and help with the crisis there when these people have relocated into your residence.

[Elaguila]

It might be the case, but still even if they delayed the patch for 2 weeks that doesnt mean they will delay the operation of the servers as well since its not related

I hope they pass their tragedy soon

I do think it's related. Why would they let SE offices run with electricity, and not let them fire up their servers?

next week it's back. Monday.

Nope.

Why can't they fire up a new server in the EU or US? It's a roomful of computers how much can something like that cost to SE?

Hauling the hard drives from their current location to an airport and flying them out of the country to then set them up in a foreign server farm is expensive and impractical.

All your replies are in this format! It's delightful!

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I don't think it's gonna be as long as the pessimists think. Once they get the Nuclear Reactors under control they should be alright to roll back in with the servers.. TO my knowledge Tokyo wasn't that massively hit that they're even being affected by blackouts.. They're just re-routing the conserved energy elsewhere? So.. By that logic as soon as they get some temporary substitute in order we should be back in business. Which I doubt will be too long. Japans stock exchange is falling, they're losing work time, money, etc.. It's another crisis coupled with what's already occuring so I'd have thought they'd want Tokyo back up and running ASAP.

So long as the people fleeing like a WHM1 from a HNM come back

The financial sector is bleeding, and they need their businesses to function, or they will be facing a financial meltdown as well, within a few months.

But the temporary substitution is what worries me, as it will take a long time for them to sort that out. Loading a reactor (e.g. one of the reactors that was offline for maintenance) takes weeks.

[Jacob]

[QUOTE=Elaguila;38991]I do think it's related. Why would they let SE offices run with electricity, and not let them fire up their servers?

Light consumption is not comparable at all with AC and Server consumption of electricity

[Gicker]

I do think it's related. Why would they let SE offices run with electricity, and not let them fire up their servers?


Nope.


Hauling the hard drives from their current location to an airport and flying them out of the country to then set them up in a foreign server farm is expensive and impractical.


The financial sector is bleeding, and they need their businesses to function, or they will be facing a financial meltdown as well, within a few months.

But the temporary substitution is what worries me, as it will take a long time for them to sort that out. Loading a reactor (e.g. one of the reactors that was offline for maintenance) takes weeks.

So basically, everyone is wrong but you. What else can you tell us oh great and powerful one?

[Elaguila]

So basically, everyone is wrong but you. What else can you tell us oh great and powerful one?

How did you gather that from that post?

Read my other posts. I'm usually pretty humble and open minded.

I was just stating facts.

You confuse me.

EDIT:
Ok, I scrolled all the way back to page 2 (way stay current btw) and found that post...
I was being polite and answering to 5 people in one post. Not bashing anybody, and in some cases I agree. It's how you keep a discussion going.

Now, let's stop going off-topic.