FF14 official website released to play home disclosure of the development of the earthquake

March 18 News, foreign media reports, "Final Fantasy" Developers Square-Enix (Square Enix) announced that in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake, to save power to shut down the network game "Final Fantasy 11" (FF11) and "Final Fantasy 14" (FF14) server.　　The release of the message has aroused the keen attention of Chinese players. Yesterday, FF14 's producer, Kita, released an open letter on the website, thanking overseas players for their concern. The letter also mentions the safety of the current development team and the development of FF14 in the earthquake. He said: "All FF14 project team members are now confirmed to be safe, but due to the instability of the nuclear power plant and the impact of aftershocks, the current can not maintain a solid development system." As a result, a game patch that was scheduled to be updated at the end of March could have delayed updates of around 1-2 weeks.　　But he also said that although the current work environment is subject to various restrictions, but FF14 all the members are in order to quickly bring the patch to the player's hands.　　FF14 's producer, Kita, posted an open letter at the official website, and SE is currently determined to stop serving until March 21, but it will also need to see the power recovery in Tokyo. Shanda announced a strategic partnership with Square Enix last September and won the exclusive right to "Final Fantasy 14" in mainland China. According to the Grand game, is currently in line with the Japanese side of the Chinese, anti-addiction and real-name development and other work.　　Tan, Chairman and CEO of Shanda Games, said in a Q4 earnings conference call that Final Fantasy 14 would be released by the end of 2011.　　Attached: FF14 producer Kita to play home Chinese translation as follows: Players, thank you all the time for the Final Fantasy 14 support and love.　　First of all, I would like to express my heartfelt condolences to the players in the earthquake in the northeast Pacific following many aftershocks. In this very period, in order to respond to the national power-saving call, and stop the game server running, to you to play a lot of inconvenience.　　Because it is an urgent matter, hope to get everyone's understanding, please take care of. The players at home and abroad give us a lot of blessings on the official forum, in this deep thanks.　　We have also briefly replied, here please let me once again to report to you the current FF14 development team personnel status and future work progress. Our main development/operations main stronghold in Tokyo, the direct loss suffered in this earthquake is very limited. We have now confirmed that all FF14 project team members are safe.　　However, the development/operation staff also have a large number of relatives, family members in the affected areas, coupled with the nuclear power plant instability and frequent aftershocks, so that we can not maintain a solid development system. Affected by the planned blackout, Tokyo traffic is a version of paralysis, so many employees can not work properly. Given the current situation, and given the security of all developers and their families, weConsider it necessary to adjust the development schedule. Therefore, although we are currently in the end of the March for the update and go all out to develop patch 1.16a and patch 1.17, it is still possible to occur around 1-2 weeks of delayed updates.　　Of course, we will not point fingers for a few days, during which time we'll focus on the design and planning of new content in the future. The High Council, which had intended to be announced in the open letter, will soon unveil its mysterious veil after the release of the 1.17 patch, which is immediately announced on the Thelodestone column of the Japanese website.　　Please look forward to the opening of the column. Although the current working environment is subject to various restrictions, but all of us are in order to send the patch to the hands of you as soon as possible, our mind is full of people after the shock after the earthquake to play FF14 scene, we do our best! Please take care of everyone! (Edit/Xu Mingming)