Had more than a dozen?I don't understand your comparison, honestly. More than a dozen neighborhoods? Doesn't FFXIV have more than a dozen wards for each home-state? On top of having 60 some servers, I would say the capacity is pretty large.

Other differences include:
*Graphics
*Computer/Server Technology (it's a 15 year old game, of course our current day technology can handle it)
*General Expectations of the players (the fact that you are making this comparison shows how much the players expect and the need for resource that can cover such high demands)

I'm not defending what happened today, but let's not make these crazy stretches of comparisons.