Restoration of Game Services (Mar. 22)

[Jex]

As part of power conservation measures enacted following the Tohoku earthquake, our game servers were shut down on Mar. 13, 2011 3:00 (PDT) and services for FINAL FANTASY XIV, FINAL FANTASY XI, and PlayOnline (hereafter referred to as "these services") were temporarily suspended. We have determined a date for the restoration of these services, and would like to share this information with you.

Operating the servers for these services makes up 11.6% of the total power consumed by our Tokyo office (based on February 2011 records). We have shut down our air conditioning system (8.8%) and enacted other power conservation measures, such as reducing lighting in our offices, to achieve over 10% in energy usage reductions. With these energy saving measures in place, we will be able to bring our servers back online and restore service to FINAL FANTASY XIV, FINAL FANTASY XI, and PlayOnline on Mar. 25, 2011 4:00 (PDT). All other services, such as those offered on the PlayOnline website, that were temporarily suspended will also be restored at the same time. Please be aware, however, that we may once again be required to suspend services in the event that the power situation worsens.

We offer our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused by the temporary suspension of these services, and thank you for your understanding. As noted in our original notice regarding the suspension of these services, customers will not be charged any monthly fees for FINAL FANTASY XI throughout the April billing cycle.

We at the Square Enix group are trying to act in a proactive manner in order to provide support towards the relief and restoration efforts in the face of this unprecedented disaster while providing reliable service to our customers, and we thank you for your understanding and support.

Soruce: http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/pol...ews20551.shtml

[Vice-Admiral von Titsling]

Glad to hear servers are coming back up; feel sorry for the employees with no air conditioning.

Torn.

[Darkmagi]

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh...582mo1_500.png
I think this is appropriate.

[Esvedium]

I'm surprised they are bringing ffxi back that fast. I thought it'd be down for another 2+ weeks.

[Draylo]

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh...582mo1_500.png
I think this is appropriate.

lmao

[Hyan]

fun fun fun fun

/thread.

[Mairja]

As usual, us EUs are the last to get told, still no update on EU PoL. Wtf what time is that in GMT??

[Lyramion]

Much earlier than expected really, not unhappy tho.

[Renzy]

11am GMT / 8pm JST

[Gokulo]

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh...582mo1_500.png
I think this is appropriate.

Fucking lol

[Mairja]

11am GMT / 8pm JST

So noon for me, yay! Thanks <3

[Vincento]

What the fuck is wrong with you people? Can't even ask a mother fucking question on a forum without your bleeding vaginas oozing all over my mother fucking keyboard. Yall can fuck off.

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8427/2h4j3ty.jpg

[Trix]

What the fuck is wrong with you people? Can't even ask a mother fucking question on a forum without your bleeding vaginas oozing all over my mother fucking keyboard. Yall can fuck off.

Posting in an epic thread

Edit: I meant depressing.

[drwaffles]

What the fuck is wrong with you people? Can't even ask a mother fucking retarded question on a forum without you ripping me a new one. Yall can fuck off.

Right.

[Gadanae]

I'm Retarded.

More like it.

[Kaisha]

Hope their server rooms are air-conditioned at least.

[Arkanna]

Welcome to BG, goodbye.

[Renzy]

Why did Renzy get banned? O_O

3rd Party Programs D:

Wow really, considering Japan is just now slowly recovering from an earthquake and we're getting the game back online in just over a week and a half being shutdown. Bitch some more why don't you..

Completely agree, definitely didn't expect them to come up this soon.. although they did say they may have to shut the servers down again if the situation gets worse

[Jex]

This is your response to this thread?!? Damn, I expected to see you cuming buckets all over the place in here.

Made me lol, naaa I'm really happy but I guess Its more of a "Ill wait patiently till friday" type thing. Don't get me wrong though I'm happy as fuck/

Wow Jex, seems you excel at being a dick too. I'm not fucking complaining, all i'm saying is it seems rather odd, since all it takes is a flick of a switch to turn the servers back on. So why the 3 day wait? Maybe the next person that replies to this post could give a good reasoning why the act of flicking a switch on takes 3 days, instead of fucking complaining that people make posts like you do Jex.

More like it.

Newfag please GTFO

[Guitarman]

coming from a guy that's spent the better part of 7 years building his character, and loving what i've accomplished, i'm going to fucking laugh my ASS OFF if they boot up the servers and find everyone's characters are destroyed.