Quote Originally Posted by Puremallace View Post
You joke but people have been pushing for this for awhile. Also you could solve a lot of this with Latin America and releasing the Oceanic servers ASAP. I honestly do not think Square Enix quite understands the flood gates they opened with the free trial expansion coming at the exact same moment of SEVERE weakness with their competition.
In fairness, SE could never have anticipated that the release of a new WoW patch/raid, as well as the long awaited release of TBC-classic would happen to be the time when everyone would start fleeing WoW. By all logic- this being a downtime for FFXIV and a huge double release in their main competitor makes this the absolute least likely time for what is happening to be happening.

Especially with Blizz clearly planning their release to coincide with the original Ashes alpha release/ESO xpac because they love to do that to try to smother hype for other games, I love seeing this backfire on them, knowing that it'll be half a year before they can produce anything else.

It really is bizarre for there to be so much attention now, but it's a great thing- FFXIV clearly has a problem of limited resources, I think the cuts and the current state of their store/account system shows that, so maybe SE will see this surge and treat the game with the same respect that the dev team clearly does, as it's impressive what they've managed to pull off.

Hopefully they can get their store problems sorted out, it'd be great to see a massive surge get retained with EW.