Is adding more worlds going to actually fix this problem?

[Zun]

It's funny, coming from WoW which is what, nine years old - this is all a little depressing. Blizzard (now Activision in all but name) is one of the biggest money-grubbing companies there is, and yet they still have the technology to support many tens of thousands of people on one realm, while FFXIV - a brand new game, really - can only support 5k, and lacks many features that are standard in any online game these days.

What's the issue?

Square had all the figures from pre-orders, they had all the figures from digital sales, they had all the figures from how many boxes shipped - yet they didn't expect this many people? How can you expect us to believe that? Something very wrong went on in Square's corporate side, and it doesn't bode well.

WoW is an incredibly old game that has far less bandwidth requirements per character, and has had those 9 years to fine-tune their hardware. This is to be expected.

FFXIV, on the other hand...they grossly underestimated how many people would actually be interested after how poorly-recieved 1.0 was. Once they've had a couple hundred scheduled server maintenances like WoW has, I'm sure things'll run a lot more smoothly.