Final Fantasy servers back up this week

By Fred Dutton Published 22 March, 2011

Service resumes after earthquake outage.

Final Fantasy XI and XIV will be back online this week, after Square Enix shut the servers to conserve energy following the devastating earthquake that hit Japan earlier this month.

According to the official Final Fantasy XIV site, the servers will be back up on 25th March.

"Please be aware, however, that we may once again be required to suspend services in the event that the power situation worsens," the post explained.

Final Fantasy XI players will not be charged monthly fees during the April billing cycle to make up for the down time.

The publisher also took the time to highlight exactly how much power it saved during the outage.

"Operating the servers for these services makes up 11.6 per cent of the total power consumed by our Tokyo office (based on February 2011 records).

"We have shut down our air conditioning system (8.8 per cent) and enacted other power conservation measures, such as reducing lighting in our offices, to achieve over 10 per cent in energy usage reductions."

"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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  • Der_tolle_Emil #1 1 year ago

    I didn't know they were out but I guess it makes sense.

    I am really interested if they will lose customers because of this. Not because they are angry that the servers went down but because they wanted to quit anyway and now had the perfect excuse - or found something else to do in the short downtime.

  • Vice.Destroyer #2 1 year ago

    What I am more interested in, is seeing how many gamers complained about this unacceptable downtime. Considering how much empathy certain gamers have for events that don't directly affect them.

  • levitate #3 1 year ago

    At least they've done something good.

  • silversun #4 1 year ago

    I used to be on 11 and am still trying out 14 and if they kept the servers down another month i would totally support that , however i no longer play ff11 and that is a paid service compared to 14 which is still free to play so i understand people worried about 11, but i accept whatever they do and will support them as someone who has been long past time player of 11 and still trys out 14.

  • slickster #5 1 year ago

    do anyone know when this game is out on ps3.