Quote Originally Posted by Superdave View Post
I don't doubt it, at all. People are trying to deal with it for now, because they already paid for their 30 days of game time. But if this stuff isn't seriously addressed and fixed within those 30 days, I wouldn't doubt they will lose 10-20% of their players the following month. This might be a good thing for them, in a sense that it will be less stress on their servers...but it's sad to think that's a solution.
Even without the problems I would consider it a miracle if less than 50% leave. It's not that FFXIV is especially bad, but that is just the way with MMO's nowadays. GW2 was the same as was Terra as was the secret world and the list goes on and on.
That is why SE is most likely hesitant on aquireing new hardware, because there is no way they'll need it in a few weeks... That's why SE is kinda dumb for not going for cloud technologies.