Important Announcement Regarding the Recent Events in Japan

[FFXIVCore.com]

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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



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I knew it would come down to this, but my God, you know it's BAD when it comes down to this.

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[Zaltana]

no brainer on this.

 

[Alereth]

no brainer on this.

Yes and no. I don't think alot of people really understand the magnitude of how bad Japan is getting jacked up. Just in the days since, I've heard "Oh Japan got hit by an earthquake. That sucks." When the situation is really much worse. For a corporation to shut down the servers on some of their biggest money makers is a real testement to exactly how bad things really are.

 

[masterorion]

it is getting quite bad over there. seems the nuclear power issue is progressivly getting worse as well. to give you another exxample of how bad it is, japan is actually 13 feet closer to the united states now