Quote Originally Posted by Reslin View Post
They knew how many codes. They didn't expect them to sell out within a week. They stated they didn't even expect to have as many players as they do right now initially due to how badly 1.0 did. They didn't think that many players would give it a chance.
now i know you are simply excusing anything. they not only knew how many codes sold for pre orders they knew the vast majority of them LONG before early release because they had them already sold long before the last week. but that aside 2 months before OB they (SE) announced 1 million applications to beta. this is not numbers out of the blue.
they knew the extent of the player base they were faced with well before either of the two times the servers were squashed. that they didn't prepare for it is obvious and trying to say they didn't see it coming is lip service/ PR snowballing people like you who believed it.