Full Servers; Are you fed up with it?

[VeriferVenti]

How do you know that they knew this was occuring from Beta phase 4?

The problem with Beta Phase 4 is that the evidence was there, but in Yoshida's recent letter, SE claims that they did not have sufficient evidence to make such a conclusion. There are, however, ways in which they could have acquired more evidence. First, they could have extended the duration of this beta. A weekend of open beta is an insufficient period of time, which we have seen from this launch. Second, given the number of pre-orders purchased in addition to the fact that this is their second attempt with this particular MMO (third if you count FFXI), SE should have been able to estimate a ballpark figure for the number of servers required.

However, the clearest indication that their calculations were off comes from Yoshida's recent letter, wherein he indicates that each server, as seen in the server list, can support 5,000 concurrent connections. This means that the arguments made previously by individuals, who saw that the number of servers allocated to Japan and those allocated to all of Europe and North American combined, were correct. As such, they cannot have expected this launch to go well in Europe and North American. But, with SE, the priority is Japan, and there they succeeded.