Don't Fall For It

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Originally Posted by Cadmar

Don't Fall For It

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Makes a post about real world issues affecting everyone, says they are not reasons for being affect by said issues.

It's not a lie or an excuse. The refugee crisis from the Actiblizzard implosion occurred well after the chip shortage began and there's just not enough chips to go around even for an emergency order. It's a storm of multiple layers all added together to make a miserable mess, and it's not even remotely Square-Enix's fault. I've been 2002'd all day today but all that can be done is to persevere and try to match your own schedule to the times that congestion is reduced.

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Originally Posted by YunBranwen

Here is the thing: Japan and European servers have little queue times and can log in quick. Not all theirs are in use. What's to say they can't take a couple and borrow them until things die down a bit?

Plus: Shadowbringers on a pretty shitty computer was nowhere near this bad.

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Part of this is wrong I have a friend that is playing on NA now cause peek times Zodark has a 9k Q

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Originally Posted by Iaito

Yeah an unexpected and unanticipated massive influx of people 3 months ago had entirely nothing to do with it at all. Nope.

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3 months ago?? where you not here for SHB when the q's were here and bad and they had to shut down server travel due to the congestion??? Thye knew long ago there servers were crap even if u dont count the wow flood the servers would be bad just from normal amounts of new players//They just never worked on them

"WE FALL

WE FALL"

Pointing out the Automotive Chip 'crisis' is flawed. Reason for that is that the automotive industry has to lie down in the bed they made themselves when, early 2020, they pulled the rug out under the semiconductor companies, cancelling their orders (which were always only in a 'just in time' with on site buffers just for a few days at best, no actual storage). When the demand for their cars suddenly spiked earlier than anticipated, they had no real stockpiles of chips, and instead of 'Oh, we are on again, pls send 15 containers of chips a week!' like the automotive companies expected, the semiconductor companies had moved on, and the automotives have to wait in line now.

On top of that, it isn't just the modern high integrated stuff in tiny structures, like the 22nm and lower, for cpus and the likes, but we also have a bottleneck in 'dumb' components, like resistors, voltage regulators, capacitors......and a very in demand component is, worldwide, mostly made by Texas Instruments, in the US - plain old 'analog' components.

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Originally Posted by lezard21

Are you sure you are applying rhetoric the correct way? Because to me it looks the other way, what with evidence of multiple other gaming companies being able to meet their deadlines in a timely and neat manner, and gullible people falling for the HURR COVID SEMICONDUURTOR SHORTAGE excuse.

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Actually, multiple other companies have fallen flat on their faces as well. Not neatly, not timely. And also as a person who works in the networking industry and knows the logistics firsthand, those gullible people are absolutely right. Huuuuuur.

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Originally Posted by Lesan

Pointing out the Automotive Chip 'crisis' is flawed. Reason for that is that the automotive industry has to lie down in the bed they made themselves when, early 2020, they pulled the rug out under the semiconductor companies, cancelling their orders (which were always only in a 'just in time' with on site buffers just for a few days at best, no actual storage). When the demand for their cars suddenly spiked earlier than anticipated, they had no real stockpiles of chips, and instead of 'Oh, we are on again, pls send 15 containers of chips a week!' like the automotive companies expected, the semiconductor companies had moved on, and the automotives have to wait in line now.

On top of that, it isn't just the modern high integrated stuff in tiny structures, like the 22nm and lower, for cpus and the likes, but we also have a bottleneck in 'dumb' components, like resistors, voltage regulators, capacitors......and a very in demand component is, worldwide, mostly made by Texas Instruments, in the US - plain old 'analog' components.

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You Do know they have known since SHb they need to fix there login servers.. I*mean if you have to shut down your new server travel due to congestion and have massive Q's way back then..That should of been priotry 1 way before corna chip shortage or wow refuges

it's not just the parts that covid has affected. it's the lockdowns. as yoshi said...they can't get their server engineers out to the datacenters to set up new servers. I imagine same reason they don't use third party hosting like amazon or google servers. they like to be self sufficient and probably want to protect whatever trade secrets they have.
also it allows them to conduct their maintenance on their own schedule. other games that rely on third parties or whatever have to do regional launches of patches and staggered downtime based on the region's clock

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Originally Posted by Cadmar

I find blaming the launch issues on semiconductor shortage and COVID insulting at best.

This exp has been planned since well before the world fell apart. Once hardware started becoming a problem SE had more than enough time to acquire it and get it up and running before this launch.

They are using it as an excuse and nothing more. My guess is that there was a financial decision made not to add servers dues to cost. *which, yes, may be due to current world issues* And this is fine. I accept the reality of that business decision... What I struggle to accept is twisting it into this "oh poor us, we can't find hardware"

The auto industry is suffering because of the sheer volume of chips they need. SE only required a fraction of that to add servers.

There's nothing that can be done about it. It is what it is and I accept that. It just really upsets me that we are being fed, what I believe, to be a false narrative as an explanation.

Thank you for listening to my rambling TED Talk as I wait in queue.

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They are already prepared for over capacity as it is. Why should they add more server clusters for something that won't even last a whole month? This issue will level itself out within the first 2 weeks. If it doesn't they will add more server clusters but that takes time.