Square Enix Turns Off Final Fantasy Servers

ZOMG! An EEEEEEEVUL company is trying to cut down on energy consumption? What you say? It's because a handful of nuclear power plants got crippled? Damn, that's just a low move from Square Enix, taking the service away from the customers just because one of the biggest earthquakes in history just occurred and mangled their power supply. Never mind that they aren't even charging their clients, which is a pretty ballsy move to make after their own share of damage.

Stay shitty sankaku.

I was just WAITING for this, I KNEW sc would have something to say. Heres an idea, GET! THE! FUCK! OVER! FINAL FANYASY! AND! SE! ok? there not going away cause one hater gots to hate and I'm sooo FUCKING SICK off the whole world being hate hate hate and hate, maybe we DO all need to die, maybe the end needs to happen cause it seems life has become nothing but hate. suck it up and turn a blind eye already, god!

I'm not just talking about FF or SE, I mean everything, I can't go anywere without seeing basing and hating, since when did liking something become uncool? well I like FF still and if you people want to hate me for it then it's you people wasting your lifes hating just another random anon cause it's so empty hating is all you have to keep living for.

I think they have genuine humanitarian motives, but I still think it's a horrible move, business-wise. This is like a drug dealer going on vacation for a week. First his customers are going to go through withdrawals, and then either they're going to discover they don't need it any longer or find someone else to go to. A week's break from Final Fantasy is exactly what players need to remind them that there is life beyond their addiction.

Jesus, is it really that a bad move by Square Enix? There is a perfectly legitimate reason for them doing this: there was a fucking earthquake. This is more like an excuse for people to bitch and whine about the game. Ok, we get that it was a bad game, no need to keep complaining about it.

i guees the article suggest that otaku's shouldn't be interrupted from their stupid gaming to do something different like, social labor? have some solidarity towards their countrymen, and neighbors?

Considering the situation I am Ok with the servers going down for a week or 2, many other games are starting to do the same thing. I understand that some will still waste, however if enough of a drop occurs the rolling blackouts may no happen, reduced load will also make it easier to add more support to the grid.

SE is going to take a hit as FFXI is still p2p so they won't be getting paid for next month (it is still profitable). FFXIV was not charging anyway however I am still supportive.

So things get shutdown for a short time, I can live with it and I am sure many others can. It will take a week or 2 just to know what can be done to support capacity for business and city operations, there is also the fact that most of the transportation is down so many workers will not be able to make it in. Give them a couple weeks to figure it out and continue.

As far as people bailing, many people have left and returned over the many years including myself. One thing that makes a difference here is yes they can bring up servers in other countries as I am sure they have them, but I am sure since this is a live worldwide server setup bringing down the main control server (the one that distributes everything) would make it a lot of work to do that.

Everyone compares it to Blizzard, however if a 9.0 earthquake hits California where the servers are and power is cut I am sure Blizzard would be forced to make the same decision and action even though there are local servers.

Not really "at the expense of paying customers" since they said they won't charge anybody next month.

So what? The more energy that can be saved the better. Konami's Kojima Productions announced they would be shutting down the Metal Gear Online servers in order to conserve power. I applaud that decision.

When this is all over and things are back to normal, I expect player numbers to be less than 10,000. That is, of course, assuming they're not using this to as an excuse to pull the plug on XIV. I can't speak for XI since I haven't heard anything about it here or anywhere.

If you read the announcement, the ONLY expense to players is the loss of time played. FFXIV players are already not paying monthly to be in the "pay to enter" beta, and FFXI players will not be charged for April.

Not just sony's problem, you cant even get on a train there.

But anyway it doesnt really matter since I cant play their game with their update keep screwing up with weird error codes.

And there is no repair option in FFXIV setup that after you spend hours reinstalling to later find out the update has screwed up again

"Although the outage is scheduled to last a week..."

>"Although the outRage is scheduled to last a week, it probably won't."

Fixed.

Dammit, NOW how am I going to waste time over summer vacation?

Reason why FFXIV is dead.

1. The Company
2. The Players
3. No Auction House
4. No Gameplay, (Grind/Watch) Farmville Status
5. No PVP Servers / War Servers
- 5 Race faction and no Wars...?
- 3 City Faction and no Anger...?
- Can't I be a beastman
with a JOB to kill PVE Carebears?

6. The Quake
7. The Tsunami
8. Did I forget to say; WoW/AION/Warhammer/COD:MW