good stuff dark pluto^^

from day one i have realized that i would have to learn alittle japanese to get by. it helps when your a low level in the dunes and can ask in english and romanji. from my point of view on sylph server we co-exist really well, not really a problem bcs atleast one person in a pt knows alittle romanji. Anyways if your too stubborn to learn any form of japanese than use the auto-translator function.

really, we are all people outside of the game but inside we are nothing more than 0s and 1s.

Edited, Wed Sep 15 09:49:46 2004

This whole situation reminds me of the pizza place down the street: Gumby's Pizza. They have the best pizza and best prices of any delivering pizza place around. Their service, on the other hand, is awful. They are rude on the phone, their drivers are rude, and if you have a cold pizza or another problem, tough. The bottom line for Gumby's is, I still go there because they have the best product, and I don't really care how bad the service is. Likewise, I'm still going to play FFXI because I think it's the best.

Don't blame SE for this, because the market determines what standards they have to meet. We have all, as customers, made a decision by continuing to play FFXI that it's worth the downtime to us to play this great game.

Being a MMO or whatever, having a business that revovles around ppl all over the world is hard. But, if your going to have to throw everyone offline, still collect their money, then *****-up what you were supposed to do...that's where i feel SE screwed this update. Yesterday was completely understandable. Today, it's outrageous. There's no reason all the server's had to be down this long (if at all) with the proper planning.

Scarecrow - Siren

the more the merrier...

should we believe this???

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/polnews/news2612.shtmlhttp://www.playonline.com/ff11us/polnews/news2612.shtml

i'm a dongle head i messed up lol ><

Edited, Tue Sep 14 19:59:01 2004

you heard it 'hold you hands with someone else and cry so we can get online'

I know this is going to sound like just another whiny NA post, but I don't see the server downtime as acceptable by any means. My complaint is not based on why updates are geared towards the JP's instead of NA's or anything so trivial as that. My main concern is that SE's servers are constantly going down for updates.

Having a decent background in multi-tiered networking, I am well aware of how far us network engineers will go to keep servers online during an update. From my experience, you can keep servers online through 90% of upgrades with sufficient planning. The planning, I believe, is where SE falls short.

If you look at most multi-national companies, and their IT infrastructure, they usually have a policy of ZERO downtime. I don't believe SE should be exempt from these standards. Especially given that fact that they are a pay service. You should hear the complaints I get when only 1 or 2 of my servers is down. I could not even imagine what it would be like if all 25 went down. And I'm sure I only have a fraction of SE's hardware.

I'm not complaining that I can't play. I'm complaining that I can't use what I pay for, way too often.

That being said, I believe SE has done an AMAZING job in regards to actual gameplay and they should definitely be commended for it. I just hope one day that their attitude towards creative game programming would extend into keeping the game available for their users.

grrr...this is killing me, i took off from work thinking i was going to be able to play FFXI ><.

well i did do one thing good tonight

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

awesome web browser! just released today!

http://www.picturetrail.com/hazaitsmikedee

some final fantasy pics in there ^^

http://www.entergy-nuclear.com/Nuclear/sites/ip3.asp

the power plant i work at

http://www.riverkeeper.org/

people trying to close it ><

just bored

I'm sorry I work in the IT Dept in biggest corp in the world and if I EVER went into an ops meeting and told people we were going to lose 16 hours in the Pac Rim in the next 2 days the laughter would be deafening. Oh and I would be looking for a job if this ever came to pass. Square and some of these post may try to hide behind the statement "it's just a game" but its a business folks with square making Millions off it. They are claiming to offer a product and should be held to the same performance standards we all are, I assume, at work. The game should be up 24/7/365 just like my "game" at work has to be. When my cable goes out I just call them and my bill gets adjusted, why not with Square? If they can't complete the offer of a product by the month then they should charge by the hour so you would get what you pay for.

Eric

im stu[id when does this mantanence end....EST time? lol thanx

Double post

Edited, Tue Sep 14 19:16:04 2004

I don't know why so many people dislike JP players except that you might be racist or something, i have never met a rude or annoying JP player, I have met several rude and annoying NA players though, and if you have only heard them say [I don't speak any English], there is a reason, most of them really dont speak any English, three words: "they" "aren't" "American", these words explain WHY they they don't speak English, its not a universal language you know. Most people on earth don't speak English, get used to it.