Final Fantasy MMOs Shut Down in Wake of Quake

japan are no strangers to death and destruction... they're gonna rise and be 10 times more powerful

"Just donated the $30 I spend on FFXI to http://www.redcross.org/. I figured since we're not getting billed for POL services throughout the April billing cycle might as well put it to good use. Every little bit helps."

From a post on a FFXI board I visit.

commendable Shakl. No joke.

It was amazing, because on the news it said that not one case of looting has been reported in Japan, yet compare that to New Orleans after hurricane Katrina and you can see what kind of aholes we have this country. Also I commend you Shakl for donating money as well. But does a first-world country really need aid from like 90 countries? I mean I can understand Haiti- they have nothing, but Japan can definately take care of the disaster by themselves in my opinion.

"...but Japan can definately take care of the disaster by themselves in my opinion."

Um... they got thousands of bodies washing up on their beaches and they can't get to them for fear of the raditation seeping out of the Nuclear Reactors, which BTW could meltdown or explode at anytime... I'm sure they wouldn't mind a LITTLE assistance from outside their country.

Haiti and others will need constant help and never be able to take care of themselves. The Japanese need help for a couple months and they will take care of themselves. Any country would need help after something that severe.

Excluding the little thing we like to call humanity, in which case any country CAPABLE of helping one in need should do so, does the fact that Japan is one of the world's leaders in manufacturing and most likely exports goods to all of those 90 countries mean that it's in nobody's 'best interest' to give them some support? Idiot.

Mean while a billion final fantasy players come back to reality..

Japan can definately take care of the disaster by themselves in my opinion.[/citation]
Opinions like yours are not needed.

GODZILLA WILL RISE! but on real note the japan quake disaster sucks hardcore donkey kong ballz i always wanted to go there, wait maybe trips going there now would be cheap? would it be wrong to play DDR in the street while people are dieing tho? j/k

I would like to just point out that SHAKL DID NOT give money to japan from this area here "From a post on a FFXI board I visit." it says that he found it on a post from the forum he visits. NOT HIM. please read carefully people.

new Orleans was a hell hole, and i believe at some point the people there were forced to stay there, with food scares in the first 2 weeks, no s$@! looting happened, the people this tsunami hit worst have other places they can go, its not like new Orleans where they had reliantly nowhere to go close that was populated and could help in a significant way. remember, japan is about the size of California, and a population of about 130million, help is far closer there than it was here.

now on the subject, if you were in a new orleans flood, survived, and had to loot food to live, would you really just stop at food? personally im thinking this way, they would have to throw away all stock of anything, working or not, so why not take some too? i'm ok with a game if everything is waterlogged about the packaging. though thats if i'm confined to new orleans, not getting any significant help, like the japanese are.

yeah looting is OK with me as well .. i mean once you get started on the food , might as well have a party right ? some new clothes , new shoes ... and face it , who hasn't wanted to steal a 55 inch flat screen at one point or another

[QUOTE]But does a first-world country really need aid from like 90 countries? I mean I can understand Haiti- they have nothing, but Japan can definately take care of the disaster by themselves in my opinion.[/QUOTE]

There's a saying:"you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours". In case of Haiti, they can't. That's why powerful countries like Japan get help. Or as in the Middle East goes under pretence help to establish "democracy", which is pretty much an exchange for oil.

"But does a first-world country really need aid from like 90 countries? I mean I can understand Haiti- they have nothing, but Japan can definately take care of the disaster by themselves in my opinion." -11796pcs

There's a saying:"Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours". In case of Haiti, they can't. That's why powerful/resourceful countries get massive help. Or as in the Middle East the exchange for oil hides under the pretence of spreading "democracy"

And in the case of Haiti, a lot of that money still hasn't gotten to where it needs to be. You can bet, however, that the international community will buck up its ideas as regards promising aid to Japan and actually delivering it this time.

Yes to the above no to the bottom they already don't have a military they are limited heavily by the WWII treaty. Also it those reactors blow the fallout will rain over the west coast. Then Fallout New Vegas might become a reality. Another problem is people's trust in nuclear energy is already strained the lash back of this will be hit all over the world. Most people still think as nuclear energy as dangerous still, and they are right in some aspects. But the new Gen IV reactors set to come around in the future have safety designed in them. Old systems use control rods that vary the amount of reaction, new technology will allow the use of ceramic coated balls of uranium. This allows a truly safe reactor even if the reactor were to start going critical you can remove fuel (balls) or simply walk away the ceramic coated balls make the natural cool-down time smaller. The system is also cooled by helium, and since helium is 100% radiological inert the problem of leaks is cured.

If you lived in a nice neighborhood and your neighbors house caught on fire and they seemed to be having troubles would you just let the house burn without making sure the people inside are OK...?

On another note their society has it's upsides, not the least of which are reverence for life and the elderly.

"new Orleans was a hell hole, and i believe at some point the people there were forced to stay there, with food scares in the first 2 weeks, no s$@! looting happened, the people this tsunami hit worst have other places they can go, its not like new Orleans where they had reliantly nowhere to go close that was populated and could help in a significant way"

New Orleans had advanced notice but decided to stay put then cried about it afterwards realizing the dumb decision they had made. Japan did not have such a luxury.

Japan does not need money it needs something more valuable peoples time. They need to locate and rescue the living and recover and identify the dead. If they do not deal with the dead quickly that causes yet another problem which they do not need. The aid sent first from the 90 counties is search and rescue teams.

WOW! I hope the suicide rates won't go up because of this... School is closed, you finally have some time to put into the game and BAM

That's because our country only has poor and overly rich and the rich think that donating 100,000 dollars of there 6 million income is helping. help the poor in this country or hey how about a more balanced of money. humm, Damn greedy rich f@#ks. 2 reasons this country is failing. 1) The rich hording money for what I do not know. can't take it with them, God don't give a damn about what you have. It's all about what you have done for others and For God, 2) All the outsourcing that we allow our businesses to do, it's wrong it's taking a lot of jobs from the USA. We should tax heavily any corporation that does so just to keep then in the country.

Japan don't need money they need peeps to help them, they already have enough of our money.

@siman0

or how about make a decent run at a tokamak reactor, which is not a passive system like fission reactors, remove power and the reaction stops. If it weren't all the stupid red tape and political wrangling we could have working tokamak reactors now, it put fussion technology 20 years behind schedule

You're thinking of China.....

People play the FF MMOs?

In light of all the tragedy in Japan thank the lord for this news tidbit, those servers are an insult to the needs of Japan right now.

Pft, I heard XIV sucked so bad, so awfully bad the lead producer resigned from his position and they made it FTP after the actual box purchase.

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I never donate to the Red Cross because most of the donations end up as administrative costs.
I remember hearing about this since the World War 2 era.If you want to donate and want the majority of the money to go to help individuals suffering and in need I would instead opt for the Salvation Army.

Fusion? Last I heard they haven't yet found ways to extract enough meaningful energy out of them. Though on Wikipedia they say there are some planned to be built. It will be interesting to see how those go, though they seem mostly built for research.

I thought there were problems with the high energy particles damaging your magnetic coil and confinement walls after time?

Though for Japan, I expect that since ITER is also being built by Japan, they are waiting to see how that one turns out before large scale deployment.

But Afghanistan has no oil they only have Cocaine...

B.O.T...

Thank you Square for kicking your servers off. Not only does it help conserve power it'll free up some of the MMO addicts for humanitarian efforts.