Quote Originally Posted by Belhi View Post
You realise this is only really an issue with one datacentre, not the entire server set up. Upgrading servers and maintaining the existing servers are two different things. Infact an upgrade offers more challenges since new hardware and software to accommodate it is more prone to bugs and issues and therefore at the inception generally less stable. That's why they said they probably won't role out the server upgrades with the launch of 4.0. The player numbers will already be putting strain on the server load and they want to ensure server stability.
Do you think World of Warcraft doesn't have massively overpopulated servers? Several times larger than Gilgamesh and Balmung, even? Do you think they crash several times on a weekly basis?

SE has the resources to make this game operate smoothly. They choose not to allocate them here.