I'm not "upset", I'm just very "disappointed"

[BlueStar62]

I sincerely hope you are not or never will be in the position to fire anyone yourself.

Whoever made the decision to limit server capacity to this degree (for their 3rd FF mmo mind you) should be fired. They had all the data they needed and all the time in the world to test this, yet they fcked up. In the real world people get fired for screwups of this mangnitude.

[wolfrikku]

Try waiting on customer service to fix your account... Atleast right now you can attempt to play on your character. If I want to play I have to try and start a new one on some server that isn't locked.

[ntharotep]

Edit: oops, this was in response to try to login in and play or make a new char...

I can't even log in to the freakin' game to make a throw away char or try to play one. Lobby Error 2002 is not my friend.

[OddOne]

Whoever made the decision to limit server capacity to this degree (for their 3rd FF mmo mind you) should be fired. They had all the data they needed and all the time in the world to test this, yet they fcked up. In the real world people get fired for screwups of this mangnitude.

This. ^

There is no reason on God's green Earth for the server capacity problems during Early Access, as SE had access to the amount of copies pre-sold and should have had capacity in place in advance to support at least that many concurrent connections. For God's sake, they bragged about pre-selling a million plus copies! And then to carry to release, again with sales figures in hand the datacenters should have been ready to handle at least the number of copies sold to that point, plus a padding figure to handle the sales from that point on.

Whoever made the decisions on capacity should be fired, and in practically any other large-scale rollout heads would be rolled out and stuck up on pikes for undercapacity on the scale ARR is experiencing. Entire IT departments and IT department managers have been canned for screwups of this magnitude. Over a million copies pre-sold yet only having the functional capacity online for only about 300k concurrent players? What idiot(s) made that call and why are they still employed?

[Szalvias]

This. ^

There is no reason on God's green Earth for the server capacity problems during Early Access, as SE had access to the amount of copies pre-sold and should have had capacity in place in advance to support at least that many concurrent connections.

Agreed. However, suggesting that a whole dev team be fired, like the post up above did, is a bit much.
The people who designed and coded the game itself did a phenomenal job of it.
The people or person responsible for planning such a limited server capacity should be fired. As you say, this problem existed previous to actual launch.

[ArcheustheWise]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84zY33QZO5o

I had to. lol.