Let us speculate on when the servers will be back online

[Mega]

This Sunday or April. At this point, don't bother turning the juice back on till something refreshing or innovative has been put in the game.

[NefarioCall]

The letter VI states that they are in fact at work, but many employees are with their families, or looking for their families, not able to come in etc. I would guess the servers will not come back online until the Nuclear crisis is stabilized. Not fixed, but stabilized.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

from that the yoshida said some time in april they doing a few major updates. Least thats what I read. 1.16a + 1.17 some fixes and battle changes.

and rift is a copy cat game of all the Iron relm games mashed together with WoW graphics. I wouldn't bother with it. Don't believe me? go read the starting stories and watch rifts intro.

those mud start you off in reincarnation as does rift. Plus the elemental planar rifts opening up. Sorery too similar of a story for my tastes.

Sorry when a pretty unknown/ uncommon dev team make a "polished first mmo >.> you gotta wonder the sources.

[Mega]

You don't need to bash rift. I'm already logged in here. And we're discussing the inevitable delay of 'our' game.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

The servers coming down has to do with energy conservation. They will be back up when this situation is taken care of and has nothing to do with the tragedy revolving around the development team's personal lives. It does however affect the release of content patches. Which I'm sure the majority of the community finds completely understandable being pushed back, and if you don't, you're going to hell.

[Shikyo]

The servers coming down has to do with energy conservation. They will be back up when this situation is taken care of and has nothing to do with the tragedy revolving around the development team's personal lives. It does however affect the release of content patches. Which I'm sure the majority of the community finds completely understandable being pushed back, and if you don't, you're going to hell.

go over board much? =/ back to the topic though a extra week has been tacked on, so i would guess probably another after that. ppl will no doubt find things to do besides this and i bet alot wont be back so i think it will be a a drop in player base which would suck, and brucey calm the fk down again if ppl dont like the opinions of others on a site that is asking for just that why are you reading these freakin threads and post, ppl need to stop being so fluffy soft.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

go over board much? =/ back to the topic though a extra week has been tacked on, so i would guess probably another after that. ppl will no doubt find things to do besides this and i bet alot wont be back so i think it will be a a drop in player base which would suck, and brucey calm the fk down again if ppl dont like the opinions of others on a site that is asking for just that why are you reading these freakin threads and post, ppl need to stop being so fluffy soft.

I do not find anything wrong with my post. I was being direct. I don't know where "calm the fk down" comes into play. I can't even understand what you're trying to say in your overall post anyway. lol

[Joe_Cool]

Initially I never would have thought that an earthquake could have affected the operations of a server farm, but I should have been more realistic.

The earthquake didn't affect the servers. The servers are shut down to conserve power since that is what the power campany asked for.

[Chumeia]

I am going to assume that the servers will not be fired up again until the all clear is given. That is, the Spent Fuel rods are either encased in cement or some how removed. In the mean time the whole area is a hot zone and the focus is on attempting to control that situation. The rest of Japan is on a lock down of sorts until the danger has passed. So given that this is likely to take a week or more longer to bear fruit, I am thinking it might not be for another 2, maybe 4 weeks, before the servers are put back online. Additionally, there's likely to be a few bugs with the restart and this will probably cause another several days delay while the issues are sorted out.

Moving a server like FFXIV is a major pain. If this were a finished black box, or simple website, then yes it would be easy to move. But this is still, for the most part a beta. Thus, I agree with others who would also say, no SE will not move the servers to bring them online any sooner. That is, not unless the move were permanent. Even so, that would also add much time to any relaunch of the servers.

A week, or two? No a month, maybe two. Go outside, get some exercise.
If your not in Japan, be thank-full. No one takes a disaster and goes back to buisness as usual the next day.
Give them time to heal, be respectful.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

not for a while I expect another week tacked on as they had discovered radioactive food. And as wel all know from Fall out 3 radio active food is bad.