Heh. You think this downtime is bad? I've barely noticed it, and I play every day. If you want some perspective, you should have played WoW for the first few months. (Maybe even now... I don't know. I refuse to play it anymore.) Or, have played Earth And Beyond for two years, only to have the servers get /shut down/. PERMANENTLY. Or have played Everquest on the Prexus server in 2003, when it melted down into a figurative pile of slag, and was down for almost two weeks.

Yeah. A few hours of downtime here and there is nothing. They'll get it fixed. In the meantime, there's better things to do than complain.

I have seen a lot of posts from people who feel angry because they cannot connect to the game...

Fortunately, there are posts from normal people who are not complaining permanently about the unability to connect to the game for whatever reason.

But, I just don't understand why you guys are so impatient when you cannot play to FFXI for an "extended period of time" as I read... It is like the game is making your entire life!
You know, there is a real life outside of this game and I am sure that you have things to do in the real life when the game is offline.

Don't make yourself ridiculous, grow up and get over it.

It works now; i can play......yay!!!

i got on playonline thnk god , wow few , i dont believe how happy im am , btw i am not sad

As usual, it's nice to see that nobody has faith in SE and POL when something goes wrong. I'm sure when they fix it, they'll just get a bunch of "about time"s instead of "Good job"s. Honestly, people, one day costs you about 43 cents. One hour costs almost 2 cents. Is wasting a buck really something to get so pissed off at POL about? I have also seen several posts saying their security sucks now... Yes, other sites have protected themselves from DDoS attacks, but all the info we have been given is that they are occuring, not on what scale, or how much difficulty it is really causing. For all we know, it could be the biggest DDoS attack ever launched, or the smallest. Maybe they are exploiting a small loophole in POL's networks. Do people complain that Windows has terrible security when some moron finds a bug and exploits it? (That's open to debate...) But when a virus emerges it is fixed as soon as possible. POL happens to need to repair its own servers. When it's back up, they will be even better, and we can go back to the way things were before these attacks started. People who say things like POL has "Poor maintenence, poor security, poor handling" could be right, but look at their track record for a moment. This is the first major security problem in almost 3 years of their service now. 3 years for somebody to find a loophole. That's definitely not "poor". As for maintenance, I don't see what the problem is... Only times the servers are down are when major problems are afoot or they are updating the game. If you expect to be able to play while they are changing the coding of the game, you're crazy. As for "poor handling," consider this: They are fixing their very servers here. Now, as they are repairing problems, do you expect them to use them to keep us updated? I agree that they should, but when the problem is in their hardware, I imagine it would be fairly hard to repair and post.

IMO, the only people who truly have a right to be pissed off at the downtime are gardeners, as they will likely have lost their crops.

Yes, I know the servers are up, Gillllberg, no need to keep up your reply spam.

Y'know, it's almost amusing reading a lot of the stuff people are saying on this post. Yes we realise POL is running slow (a friend of mine did get on earlier after updating! So no it's not completely down) and yes it is frustrating but look at it this way - FFXI has been running for what? 2 years now? Personally I have only been playing 9 months but in those 9 months there has never been a problem like this before. SE have done a great job so far in keeping the servers going at a constant playable rate. Yeah so what if for a few days the system is down? Big deal - not the end of the world! Ok, this whole 'hacker' attack thing - yeahit is plausable I mean this is exactly what hackers like to do - **** us all of and it's working. Actually you'll probably find the hacker is someone who got kicked off for gill selling or something and has nothing better to do with their sad little lives than get revenge. As for stopping the hacks, well I'm not a network/computer/hacker wizard so I can't comment on that. All I can say is that the way some people are talking on here you'd think it was a life or death situation. i mean come on - it s a GAME! As for the whole paying for service stuff, yeah if the system was down for like a couple of weeks then yes, I would expect some compensation but this afternoon (it was working this morning) is the ONLY time in 9 months I've never been able to log on so I ain't gonna scream like crazy about it. Thanks.

all i got to say is let me play my @#$% game im a big FF and fan and this is 1 of the only joys in life i like doing sad i dont care i just want to play ok im done lol omg i cant even get this to post

all i got to say is let me play my @#$% game im a big FF and fan and this is 1 of the only joys in life i like doing sad i dont care i just want to play ok im done lol omg i cant even get this to post

you all can put yer torches, pitch forks, tar and feathers away now I just gave it another log in try and I got in of course now it'll prolly go down AGAIN when everyone and their hamster attempts to log in all at once lol

all i got to say is let me play my @#$% game im a big FF and fan and this is 1 of the only joys in life i like doing sad i dont care i just want to play ok im done lol

all i got to say is let me play my @#$% game im a big FF and fan and this is 1 of the only joys in life i like doing sad i dont care i just want to play ok im done lol