Where in the world...?

[AdvancedWind]

The mods need to enforce their rules regardless. One News article is allowed while another is censored. Both important but the mods have some kind of jaded opinion of one and not the other? From and old GM to the mods. You need to enforce your companies policies globally regardless of your personal opinions on off topic discussions on these forums.

But, like I said, Earthquake related news WERE FFXIV relevant.

Let me give you a few examples:

MASSIVE POWER OUTAGES IN JAPAN - Relevant: It could affect FFXIV
NEW JAPANESE PRESIDENT - Irrelevant: It will not affect FFXIV
NEW JAPANESE PRESIDENT IS AGAINST ONLINE GAMES: Relevant: It could affect FFXIV
OSAMA BIN LADEN DIES - Irrelevant: It will not affect FFXIV
TERRORIST THREATENS BLOWING UP MMO SERVERS - Relevant: It could affect FFXIV
NEW U.S. LAW WANTS TO BANSH MMOs FROM AMERICA - Relevant : It could affect American FFXIV players

Do you get it now?

[Xzen]

But, like I said, Earthquake related news WERE FFXIV relevant.

Let me give you a few examples:

MASSIVE POWER OUTAGES IN JAPAN - Relevant: It could affect FFXIV
NEW JAPANESE PRESIDENT - Irrelevant: It will not affect FFXIV
NEW JAPANESE PRESIDENT IS AGAINST ONLINE GAMES: Relevant: It could affect FFXIV
OSAMA BIN LADEN DIES - Irrelevant: It will not affect FFXIV
TERRORIST THREATENS BLOWING UP MMO SERVERS - Relevant: It could affect FFXIV
NEW U.S. LAW WANTS TO BANSH MMOs FROM AMERICA - Relevant : It could affect American FFXIV players

Do you get it now?

Any thing could potentially interrupt service. Until they knew it was going to it was just news that had nothing to do with FFXIV.

[Ashgarth]

Any thing could potentially interrupt service. Until they knew it was going to it was just news that had nothing to do with FFXIV.

Just the fact that it was the country where the servers, developers and basically everything related to the game is. Besides that no, it had nothing to do with it.

[Xzen]

Just the fact that it was the country where the servers, developers and basically everything related to the game is. Besides that no, it had nothing to do with it.

It still had no effect on the service until the power company needed them to shut down. Thus had no effect on the game. I already suggested an Off Topic forum to make situations like this easier on the forum mods in the future. It's a lot easier to move a thread and direct people that want to talk about a subject to an off topic forum than it is to piss them off and deal with the aftermath. Simple and easy.