Quote Originally Posted by bcruise View Post
They just did. (scheduled a maintenance at least, dunno about server capacity)

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...%EF%BC%8E28%29

Never thought I'd be happy to see maintenance, but that will at least dump all the AFK'ers.
The maintenance isn't due for another couple of hours and by the time it happens, many of us will be either sleeping or busy with other things. It'll be flooded by AFKers again eventually, so I'd hardly call that a solution. At all.

How could they underestimate the number of players when they knew how many people pre-ordered the game? They had weeks to prepare the infrastructure. What was the purpose of Phase 4 again?