Earthquake impact on game service

**6souls** · 2011-03-13 01:14

Googlefish translation, English should be up soon.

Dear Customer

The earthquake occurred in northeastern Taiheiyou March 11, we have tight power supply in eastern Japan. To address this situation, we have offered our "Final Fantasy XI" "Final Fantasy XIV" "PlayOnline" We consider it to stop temporarily the operation of online games like.

Examining the current state is willing to make efforts to minimize inconvenience to customers at the moment, we have decided to stop踏Mi切Razaru forced to take temporary management. If the suspension of operations finalized, will guide it immediately, thank you in advance and uncertainties, as detailed below.

FINAL FANTASY XIV, The Lodestone: http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/
FINAL FANTASY XI Official Site: http://www.playonline.com/

http://www.playonline.com/home/polnews/news20536.shtml

**Martinius** · 2011-03-13 01:24

from twitter (@FFXI_EN):

as a result of the earthquake, we temporarily may have to shut down the servers hosting FFXI and FFXIV. we will give you as much advance notice as possible under the rapidly changing circumstances. If the servers are shut down, we will provide updates in the information section of our official websites.

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/pol...ews20537.shtml

**Apelila** · 2011-03-13 01:25

English version:
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/pol...ews20537.shtml.

To the SQUARE ENIX community:

As you know, Japan has been hit with a terrible disaster this week. We have received and greatly appreciate all the kind words of concern from our fans and players.

As a result of the earthquake, we temporarily may have to shut down the servers hosting FINAL FANTASY XI and FINAL FANTASY XIV.

We are now analyzing the situation and studying very hard what we can do to fulfill our social responsibilities under the unusual circumstances, and to mitigate the inconvenience to our players. According to our best estimate at this point, we will temporarily have to shut down the servers shortly. We will give you as much advance notice as possible under the rapidly changing circumstances. If the servers are shut down, we will try to provide updates in the Information section of our Official Website below.

FINAL FANTASY XIV , The Lodestone: http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/
FINAL FANTASY XI Official Website: http://www.playonline.com/

We sincerely apologize and appreciate your understanding.

Sincerely,
SQUARE ENIX

**vagus** · 2011-03-13 01:34

Shit just got serious. Let's hope all is well in Japan.

**Draylo** · 2011-03-13 01:34

**Apelila** · 2011-03-13 01:36

Honestly after hearing about the earthquake the first thing I did was login to FFXI to see if it was still up. This is completely understandable.

**Kazen** · 2011-03-13 01:40

It sucks that it has to happen during the week I have spring break and no money, but I kinda expected this to happen. They have to do what they have to do so I doubt anyone will get upset about this.

**Afrohatch** · 2011-03-13 01:42

THIS IS BULLSHIT I WANT MY MONEY BACK FOR THIS MONTH

notrly. Seriously if people get upset over no ffxi for a while because of this, they are cocks

**bechyni** · 2011-03-13 01:52

Just made an announcement about it ingame via System Message. Betting servers go down tomorrow.

**Fievel** · 2011-03-13 01:54

Was waiting for this.

**Toxictaru** · 2011-03-13 01:57

Pretty sure the servers went down about 2 minutes after they sent the message. Kinda sucks, R0ed lotting Glavoid.

**Baroka** · 2011-03-13 01:58

Was only a matter of time

**Snprphnx** · 2011-03-13 01:58

Originally Posted by Toxictaru

Pretty sure the servers went down about 2 minutes after they sent the message. Kinda sucks, R0ed lotting Glavoid.

nope, still up

**Nightfyre** · 2011-03-13 01:59

I'm still online atm, wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they're working on shutting things down though.

**Shenrien** · 2011-03-13 02:06

was only a matter of time, I hope for the best really I do, they've got a catastrophe unfolding upon them over there and it's only going to get a lot worse before it gets better, I'm sure this has something to do with the possible nuclear disaster.

**Not Kuno** · 2011-03-13 02:12

It says in game "we will temporarily have to shut down the servers shortly". Probably won't be up when I wake up.

**Cleverness** · 2011-03-13 02:14

Not surprised at all this happened, more surprised it's happening now rather than earlier considering the situation over there. Guess I got some backlog to catch up on.

**Burningthought** · 2011-03-13 02:19

I said this on vent earlier to a few friends, they will give out free game time before they ever refund anything. I was expecting them to do what they did during katrina and temporarily suspend accounts effected by the hurricane, until you got on and reactivated it, granted I didn't think the servers were located in Japan, I thought they were just maintained in Japan.

**Charismatic** · 2011-03-13 02:19

BOOLSHIT, I WANT MAH GAME

aduidarnenye · 2011-03-13 02:28

Logged in and people on my linkshell are already bitching about getting refunds for any downtime. People are terrible.

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