As part of power conservation measures enacted following the Tohoku earthquake, our game servers were shut down on Mar. 13, 2011 3:00 (PDT) and services for FINAL FANTASY XIV, FINAL FANTASY XI, and PlayOnline (hereafter referred to as "these services") were temporarily suspended. We have determined a date for the restoration of these services, and would like to share this information with you.

Operating the servers for these services makes up 11.6% of the total power consumed by our Tokyo office (based on February 2011 records). We have shut down our air conditioning system (8.8%) and enacted other power conservation measures, such as reducing lighting in our offices, to achieve over 10% in energy usage reductions. With these energy saving measures in place, we will be able to bring our servers back online and restore service to FINAL FANTASY XIV, FINAL FANTASY XI, and PlayOnline on Mar. 25, 2011 4:00 (PDT). All other services, such as those offered on the PlayOnline website, that were temporarily suspended will also be restored at the same time. Please be aware, however, that we may once again be required to suspend services in the event that the power situation worsens.

We offer our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused by the temporary suspension of these services, and thank you for your understanding. As noted in our original notice regarding the suspension of these services, customers will not be charged any monthly fees for FINAL FANTASY XI throughout the April billing cycle.

We at the Square Enix group are trying to act in a proactive manner in order to provide support towards the relief and restoration efforts in the face of this unprecedented disaster while providing reliable service to our customers, and we thank you for your understanding and support.

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tl;dr - Servers up this Friday 25th at 7pm (GMT+8)

Very convenient for the DAoC freeplay to expire the day before. Get to play 10 days for free, every 90 days unsubbed hehe.

Turning off aircon with the weather so hot just so we can have fun.

Roflmao Forseti haha.

lol eir.devious ^^

See you peeps on friday. =3

See you guys friday ^^. U guys playing any other MMOs during this rest period?

Not playing any MMO for me, but replaying Dragon Age with all the DLC and mods. =D

being very tempted with rift alot of my friends are on it.

but i don't want to commit to 2 mmos

finished DA2 as male all 3 classes slept with isabela, anders, merill

now working on female and slutting it.

got mod where my boobs are almost down to my waist.

fun

I was/is playing Rift atm. Dayblind PvP, stabstabstabstab.

can't wait to get back in FFXIV

just relaxing and flashing my pc phone and fixing my pc to pass time atm.not playing any mmo atm also lol

lol just realize tomorr the timing is either around 7pm for me or 7am on sat morn for server relaunch which means i can either play a bit only then gtg work or still have to wait 1 more day till it start.

and i just changed my pc main drive to ssd so i will need to download game patches all over again which will take a while.so i will probably be late in game a few hours.unless ssd is that fast to cut the download time ^^

lol Shu
Couldn't buy a fiberglass connection while you were at it to REALLY cut your dl speed XD?

and servers are up but i can't log in

F UUUUUU SE

ya still have some error i think or not yet fully up.

my patching is barely moving heh

at sep 2010 patch now.but gtg work so i continue tomorr.cya all in game when back and finish patching heh

pfft i just finish patching but got error when entering lobby.i guess server is not open yet heh

In-game since 7pm last evening nia.

hmm could be the new firewall is blocking it.

can log in now heh