Earthquake impact on game service

[Byrthnoth]

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...8&d=1300070124

..... lol... Man, fuck people.

Anyway, I'm on day 10 of no-FFXI thanks to vacation. It gets better. I'm jetlagged, busy at work, and behind on all the random things I do on the internet so that's keeping me busy. I also occasionally cheat and do FFXI-math. Tonight I re-fill my fridge and cook something, then go to bed.

[Charismatic]

For those of you guys looking for something to do... if the downtime gets extended, there's always the English version of Duodecim coming soon.

[aduidarnenye]

BG, the traditional location of the "hardcore elitist players", is seeing a response to this downtime by people playing other games and going about their lives.

Allakazham and the new official forums, both full of "casual players", are flipping out about the downtime, ready to rain fire down on SE headquarters and claiming that this is the doom of FF11.

Official forums thread: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...owntime-please.

[Cail]

i started reading that thread and stopped cuz im sick of reading ignorant people posting "omgz no ff! why u no haz backup server!? you dumb!" Its a fucking game, and its down for a week. Get the fuck over it

[gairaiden]

the official forum makes my head explode at the sheer stupidity of the players on it. japan just had one of the worst disasters in recent history, and the primary concern of the players on the official forum is when the fuck ffxi can get back online. people really do have their head up their ass sometimes. i'm finding ways to stay amused without the ffxi. playing the world ends with you and getting used to its odd controls atm. am i bored without the social interaction ffxi gives me? yes, sure as hell am. however i'm not gonna sit here and bitch servers are down when everyone knows japan has a potentially serious nuclear accident unfolding atm on top of the damage they got already.

looking at the servers potentially being out upwards of a month in reality. the rolling blackouts are going into the first week of next month. pretty sure i read april 8th earlier on a few news sources. so its very possible servers could be down till then. in the meantime people need to sit back, not post shit like the official forum been doing, and try playing some other games or go outside and go fishing of bowling or to a movie like i been.

[bechyni]

the official forum makes my head explode at the sheer stupidity of the players on it. japan just had one of the worst disasters in recent history, and the primary concern of the players on the official forum is when the fuck ffxi can get back online. people really do have their head up their ass sometimes. i'm finding ways to stay amused without the ffxi. playing the world ends with you and getting used to its odd controls atm. am i bored without the social interaction ffxi gives me? yes, sure as hell am. however i'm not gonna sit here and bitch servers are down when everyone knows japan has a potentially serious nuclear accident unfolding atm on top of the damage they got already.

This. Half the people posting on there are just fucking retarded.

[Deathbringer]

BG, the traditional location of the "hardcore elitist players", is seeing a response to this downtime by people playing other games and going about their lives.

Allakazham and the new official forums, both full of "casual players", are flipping out about the downtime, ready to rain fire down on SE headquarters and claiming that this is the doom of FF11.

Official forums thread: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...owntime-please.

I've stopped after reading the 1st page....I'm gonna treat the official forums like I treat alla/ffxiah- fuck them. BG for life lol.

[Daiiawn]

Day 1:
Woke up, got out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
And looking up, I noticed I was late

Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream
Ahh, ahh, ahh

[bechyni]

Should of spent more time
when you were writing that rhyme

[Dimmauk]

Honestly the time off is something that isn't effecting me at all. I still work a lot so it's not like anything has changed much.

Someone sent me this link..

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...8&d=1300070124

Just wow at these people....

Yeah, was posted in the random images thread. People are fucking dumb.

[wipers]

Notice the source. Facebook. That is all you really need to know.

Facebook has rushed in the decline of civilization at a rate not yet know.

[Dimmauk]

Its like they completely forgot we Bombed the fuck out of them back. Or that they are our allies now. And all those people weren't even born during WWII. Fucking retards.

[wipers]

I'm shocked people on Facebook even know anything about history. The people on my friend list say stuff like. "I hate Monday's I can't wait for the weekend." Every fucking Sunday this girl says the same thing. It really pisses me off.

Edit: I go so far as to check my facebook account through e-mail only I don't even log onto the site. lol

[bechyni]

People are just looking for a chance to talk shit, that's all Facebook is good for. Well that and stalking

[Alvein]

You can't even login to pol so I would say no not a good time

edit :spelling

Some sorta related info.

From the words of SE today when I asked about my hacked-10-months-ago-account:
Agent Chris F.: We do not yet have any information as to how the downtime will effect our compromised account process, but we are looking to get this processed for you as soon as possible.

[NynJa]

BG, the traditional location of the "hardcore elitist players", is seeing a response to this downtime by people playing other games and going about their lives.

Allakazham and the new official forums, both full of "casual players", are flipping out about the downtime, ready to rain fire down on SE headquarters and claiming that this is the doom of FF11.

Haha, thats kinda pathetic, since you'd think the hardcore ones would be the ones slitting their wrists over this. While theres been some wrist cutting going on here, I think its generally been people with low post counts (aka: casual scrubs trying to fit in)

Hows the JP end of the boards, or rather just the JP community, dealing with the downtime? Elmer signal?

[Classikmage]

Today: Woke up, went to work, cam home prepared my garden for planting. Next planning on 3 hours of watching "Bones" and than back to sleep. Dr. Temperance Brennen is one bitch you don't wanna fuck with.

[Ambir]

Day 1:
Woke up, got out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
And looking up, I noticed I was late

Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream
Ahh, ahh, ahh

I'd love to tuuurrrn youuu onnnnnn...

[macross]

Power crisis cause all the reactors shut down during quake. So they gotta go and check them all for safety before turning em back on I bet. I read they got 55 reactors in Japan.

Day1: played dage2, actually went out to eat.
Day2: Played some more da2, played some dynasty warriors online, went to work.

[Byrthnoth]

Hows the JP end of the boards, or rather just the JP community, dealing with the downtime? Elmer signal?

I gotta imagine they're busy talking about what a bunch of insensitive assholes the NAs are on the official forums.