We all should have been Japanese

[DinahDemiurge]

I apparently have been corrected. Primal supposedly isn't any better.

As to why you "deserved" it... sorry if this sounds harsh, but you chose to play on the most overpopulated server of all servers. There's a certain amount of "problem" expectation that comes with that. Any problem that occurs is going to be 10x worse.

As for one thing that helped alleviate it somewhat, people lined up and didn't spam the NPC on the JP servers. Someone said they tried that on Balmung, but then it went back to chaos after people got impatient.

All the spam from hundreds or even thousands of players all spamming one NPC just makes it worse.

I chose gilgamesh before it became gigantic. Do I deserve it?

[Kaedan]

I chose gilgamesh before it became gigantic. Do I deserve it?

That you chose to stay? Yeah. You even have the opportunity to move for free now. If you don't move, that's your choice to stay on a server that you know is the most overcrowded one.

[Claviusnex]

That you chose to stay? Yeah. You even have the opportunity to move for free now. If you don't move, that's your choice to stay on a server that you know is the most overcrowded one.

It's not much of a choice if you are in an FC, have friends/family or housing on your current server. For many the main part of the game's quality of life are the relationships they have with other players so just saying "Move" isn't the answer for a major technical screw up on SE's part. Likewise moving won't fix somethings like the MSQ bottlenecks and throttling as instances are datacenter wide.