If you’re a Final Fantasy XI or XIV enthusiast, you’ve no doubt taken note of the server takedowns as a result of the earthquake and conservation measures in Japan. Square Enix pulled the plug on both these MMOs on March 13, and it looks like both will be up and running again as soon as the end of this week on March 25, according to a recent posting on the official Final Fantasy XIV blog.

The announcement mentions that even though services will again be offered on this date, it’s completely possible that Square will power down both games again if conservation needs arise. Also, in case you didn’t know, no one is being charged for service in April as a result of all of this, as was originally noted by Square when it announced the initial server pulls.  
 

If you’re a Final Fantasy XI or XIV enthusiast, you’ve no doubt taken note of the server takedowns as a result of the earthquake and conservation measures in Japan. Square Enix pulled the plug on both these MMOs on March 13, and it looks like both will be up and running again as soon as the end of this week on March 25, according to a recent posting on the official Final Fantasy XIV blog.

The announcement mentions that even though services will again be offered on this date, it’s completely possible that Square will power down both games again if conservation needs arise. Also, in case you didn’t know, no one is being charged for service in April as a result of all of this, as was originally noted by Square when it announced the initial server pulls.  
 

sweet? 

Thats cool, i mean whoever is complaining need a slap

first?

" sweet?  "

" @EpicSteve said:

" sweet?  "

The first FF mmo is fine. The second one is horrid. I would love to go back to the fist one if they gave us some nice updates.  "

i wanted to try this but the game just looked and sounded horrible.

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All I want to know is when is it coming out on PS3!?

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they should do everybody a favor and dont bother with it

He could've said tomorrow rather than "End of the week/month" lol. But yeah never heard anything positive about this game. A shame because Square Enix seemed to have put a lot of effort into FFXIII and FFXIV and 13 is considered one of the worse RPGs in the series and 14 easily the worse of the two MMOs.  
 
I hope they can get a foothold in the current generation of consoles before they change again and are left behind spending years and millions for relatively little payoff compared to the bigger western efforts.

FFXI was awesome, not for everyone but something truly unique and awesome. 
 
FFXIV man was that thing garbage.

Should have just said that XIV was an unfortunate victim of the earthquake and is lost forever. FFXI was great back in the day, I played it enough to make a, erm.. couple grand when I decided to move on from MMOs.

" FFXI was awesome, not for everyone but something truly unique and awesome.  FFXIV man was that thing garbage. "

I thought this article was going to be news about some major change to FFXIV.  Still though, this is good news to hear.

Yeah, I don't see why anyone should have a problem with this.  If they do they should go check out some footage of the the earthquake and ensuing tsunami.  
 
I put a good 2,000 hours into a character in FFXI, and I'm not sure I could be paid to go back after playing MMOs that don't hate their players.  :)

Meanwhile, all 16 fans rejoice.

Yay

Nah, don't bother putting XIV back up.

/ffxi flashback 
 
thinking back to the days of running a dynamis / sky linkshell 
 
mining in oldton movopolis, while leveling goldsmithing 
 
spending hours camping mee degi the punisher for my kote's 
 
finishing cop 
 
/end ffxi flashback

I guess that is good that it is coming back online.

is this a good thing 

I hope things are getting better over there
 
 ffxi was amazing, its a shame that ffxiv is such a bust though...

Just don't bother SE. Save that money and make a decent videogame.

may be a good time to try it

" may be a good time to try it "