1 More Day till SERVER "Restart"

[mimeh]

Let's cross our fucking fingers and hope that anima is reset when we log in

Holy s**t are you blind? If time keeps running when they're down for maintenance I suppose it didn't freeze during this downtime.

[Abriael]

Let's cross our fingers and hope that anima is reset when we log in

...because this is what matters

[Elaguila]

Holy s**t are you blind? If time keeps running when they're down for maintenance I suppose it didn't freeze during this downtime.

I don't think anima will be reset. Therefore I'm crossing my fingers, and it makes it very difficult to type peroppoely

[God]

lol even if your anima was 0 it would be full by now.

[Dishy]

I was told by A family member in japan (Tokyo area) that there are scheduled "blackouts" everyday 3 hours in the morning And 3 hours in the evening. they were also told not to use "unnecessary" power... even the Heat if possible! ( most Japanese use electric heaters) So I don't know how SE could put the servers back up with these Nation wide black outs. Unless they make it so the game is only available for certain "blocks" of time each day. So I think we are in for a decent wait. So in the mean time since XIV was free for everyone anyway, and XI is getting monthly fee's waived. consider donating to the Red Cross or another charity that is helping with food and water shortages. Just a thought anyway.

[Abriael]

I was told by A family member in japan (Tokyo area) that there are scheduled "blackouts" everyday 3 hours in the morning And 3 hours in the evening. they were also told not to use "unnecessary" power... even the Heat if possible! ( most Japanese use electric heaters) So I don't know how SE could put the servers back up with these Nation wide black outs. Unless they make it so the game is only available for certain "blocks" of time each day. So I think we are in for a decent wait. So in the mean time since XIV was free for everyone anyway, and XI is getting monthly fee's waived. consider donating to the Red Cross or another charity that is helping with food and water shortages. Just a thought anyway.

The shibuya area (where SE has it's server farm) is exempt from the blackouts. All the energy saving done there is on a voluntary base.
Not saying they will reopen the servers, but if they do, they won't need to turn them off daily for the rolling blackouts.

[Mishakai]

It would be nice but I'm not going to hold my breath.

[God]

I am *deep breath*.

[Elaguila]

The shibuya area (where SE has it's server farm) is exempt from the blackouts. All the energy saving done there is on a voluntary base.
Not saying they will reopen the servers, but if they do, they won't need to turn them off daily for the rolling blackouts.

Are businesses in that area encouraged to save electricity? And since you have some insight, when do you guess the servers will be back online?

[Abriael]

Are businesses in that area encouraged to save electricity? And since you have some insight, when do you guess the servers will be back online?

Businesses everywhere are encouraged to save electricity. But SE, as others, has to compete on an international level, with businesses that are not affected by the current situation, so I doubt anyone would blame them for not participating (with the servers) further in the voluntary brownout, even because they can still save energy while running the servers (by keeping unnecessary lights off, air conditioning on power saving and so forth).
Many other businesses in the shibuya area compete only on a local stage (malls, shops and such), so they can shorten their business hours and keep most of their electrical equipment off (all the neon lights and large screens on the famous shibuya crossing for instance), without facing the same competition problems SE is facing now.

I'm not in their shoes. So I don't know what they will decide. What I can say is that a reopening of the server sometimes soon seems to be *possible* but it all depends on the ones taking the decisions. And whatever they decide, there are solid reassons supporting both possibilities (turning the servers on or keeping them off), so they can't be blamed.