Restoration of Game Services (Mar. 22)

As part of power conservation measures enacted following the Tohoku earthquake, our game servers were shut down on Mar. 13, 2011 10:00 (GMT) 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 11:00 (GMT). 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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I'm sad they still haven't announced a patch to go alongside bringing the servers online. Having the servers off for two weeks seemed like a great time to do something big like changing the battle system or something. As far as I can tell they have been at their offices this whole time.

March. 25, 2011 11:00 (GMT).

I'm really hoping that while the servers were offline, that that our anima/GA was still filling. Clearly it couldn't have happened while the servers were 'offline', but depending on the algorithm they use for refreshing it, it may go back and restore stuff for missed timers.

Really hoping I come back to 100/200 anima/ga.

And at 11:10GMT when Yarr logs in its gonna be like this.

Yarr: Awesome, the server is up! Lets do some LQs,
Ridere: Sorry Yarr we just finished em
Supa: Yeah you should have been here earlier Yarr