I've Got Plenty of Energy; Japan Doesn't

Ahh ... Spring break. Full of beer, topless women, sand in your shorts and getting arrested.

...

Or sleeping, if you're a normal college student. That's what I did for the past two weeks; sleep, eat, sit on the Internet for hours watching my favorite gaming vlog on YouTube and sleeping some more. The only times I left the house were to help my handicapped mother do the groceries, and when I went outside on the 19th to watch the supermoon.

Contrary to my uneventful Spring break, a lot happened in the world. Japan had a 9.0 earthquake, Libya had a major revolution, and FFXI's servers had to be shutdown because of the energy crisis in Japan, which was linked to the previously mentioned earthquake, and a tsunami/volcanic eruption/nuclear meltdown (that's a mouthful, huh?). It's been shutdown since the 13th, and there's been no word yet on when it's actually going to be put back up.

The thing is, I've heard reports of people wanting to unsubscribe their accounts just because they've been down for a week--because of a national energy/humanitarian crisis in the country of their game's origin. Do they not realise that they were essentially told by the energy companies in Japan to shutdown the servers in favor of a more essential use of the limited energy they have? The infrastructure of the electricity system in Japan had been basically doing rolling blackouts to save energy, so even if Square-Enix didn't shutdown their servers, they'd be turning off for hours at a time, several times a week. What's the point if you're doing a major event, and at the boss's hit points are at 1%, and all of a sudden *BAM*, server shutdown? I wouldn't want to deal with it. Just go outside or play something else.

This is all, of course, not mentioning the whole thing about them not wanting their employees to be at work. They have families and they're worried about them, and I'm sure at least one employee had a death in their immediate family to deal with. Why aren't people on the Internet nice sometimes?

But it's strange how your personal life can conflict with the world around you, huh? I wish something would happen, and millions across the world in Libya and Japan wish things would stop happening.