日本强震后，角色扮演类视频游戏《最终幻想》系列开发商Square Enix决定关闭其网络游戏《最终幻想11》和《最终幻想14》的服务器。

3月13日，Square Enix悉数关闭其服务器，并未给出服务器重新开启的时间。《最终幻想》系列网游甚为独特，游戏将日本玩家和国际玩家紧密联系起来，且内置翻译确保语言不通的玩家间能够妥善交流。3月11日的地震严重破坏日本国内的无线系统和云服务（游戏邦注：这些服务在储存信息及进行高强度运作的远程服务器上运行。），影响到所有在线网络服务。

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虽然日本大多数网络服务都在海外有备用云服务器，但《最终幻想》系列网游似乎并没有额外的服务器，或许原因在于该游戏的玩家数量并不多。最新游戏《最终幻想14》运营之路极为艰难，其并未获得众评论家的好评。在网站Metacritic上的意见征集中，共有25人对该游戏发表评论，平均得分为49分（总分100分）。

近日，日本东北部遭里氏9级强震侵袭，随后引发海啸。此次地震是近1个世纪来日本发生的最强地震，引发高达33英尺（10米左右）的海啸淹没北部城镇。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

Japanese earthquake rocks online games

Square Enix, developer of video games like the role-playing Final Fantasy game series, will shut down its servers for its online games Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIV to conserve power following a massive earthquake in Japan.

Square Enix shut down the servers today and did not indicate when the servers will come back up. The online Final Fantasy series is unique in that it meshes Japanese and international players very closely and has in-game translations to help players communicate across language barriers. But an earthquake on Friday did massive damage to the country’s wireless and cloud services — which are run on remote servers that store information and handle heavy-duty computing — hampering online services across the country.

While a lot of online services in Japan have backup cloud servers across the world, it looks like the online Final Fantasy games did not merit additional servers. That might be because the game did not have as many players as other online games like World of Warcraft — which now has 12 million active monthly subscribers. The most recent game, Final Fantasy XIV, had a bit of a rough start and was not well received by critics, picking up a score of 49 out of 100 across 25 reviews on review aggregation site Metacritic.

Japan was hit by an 8.9-magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale. The earthquake rocked the northeastern portion of the coast and generated a tsunami warning across the country. The quake was the strongest to hit Japan in at least a century and generated a tsunami as high as 33 feet that flooded northern towns. (Source: Venture Beat)