Why no new servers? Not just this launch but the last 8 months?

[Fador]

Well thank Hydaelyn my payment to pre purchase hasn't been working through the square enix website. Seems like it's best for me to wait a week or so before buying it.

[Brill_]

Why no new servers?

From Yoshi P in July of this year:

Problem 1: Insufficient Servers Due to Semiconductor Shortage
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen an extreme drop in semiconductor production in factories across the globe. This, coupled with an increase in demand for electronics due to more people working at home, has resulted in an international shortage of semiconductors that, in turn, has resulted in a prolonged delay in the delivery of the servers we ordered for our data centers.

We have even looked into investing more than market value to speed up delivery, but to no avail. We are not giving up, however, and are in continued talks with vendors from around the world to find a timely solution to this problem.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...0acb6c23ccd07f

[MsQi]

A stitch in time saves nine.

The servers needed upgrading since before ShadowBringers. Putting it off was the mistake, covid and asmongold just made it worse.

[lezard21]

Not as if they didn't have a bunch of spare servers for the planned OCE DC they couldn't have shipped to the US/EU DCs like 4 months ago when they saw the spike in players from the WoW migration.

They could have postponed the OCE DC just like they postponed EW in order to give a better playing experience to their customers.

[Minsue]

Can someone at Square Enix explain why in the last 8 months no new servers were added? Was there an expectation that the MMO's population would see a massive decline prior to Endwalker?

Was there not enough data provided to show this was not happening? Every single server is locked to creating new characters so even if a new person wanted to play FF14 right now they LITERALLY cannot in America.

At no point in time did anyone consider adding a new server? Is the trauma of 1.0 that bad at Square Enix that the most obvious solution was ignored?

This had been answered by the developer several times for months now.

[Minsue]

Not as if they didn't have a bunch of spare servers for the planned OCE DC they couldn't have shipped to the US/EU DCs like 4 months ago when they saw the spike in players from the WoW migration.

They could have postponed the OCE DC just like they postponed EW in order to give a better playing experience to their customers.

What about our oce customers are you saying your more Important then them? Sounds pretty entitled to me.

[Tyssyn]

How many people would be willing to move to another data center o world? So many of us are invested in our worlds - our friends are here, our FCs are here, those who have houses don't want to give them up. Many of the streamers joined worlds they already knew people were playing that they could play with so gravitated to certain worlds. Some of the influx of the newer players would have diverted to the new data centers, of course, but many wanted to join specific worlds to play with people they knew already played. Not to mention the fact that even if they had chosen to use the servers bought for the OCE data center for EU/US, they still would have had the issues they ran into in getting OCE set up. The installation teams still wouldn't have been able to travel. Squeenix would have had to lease space for the new data centers, or hope the existing server housing was big enough to add more.

[Lanadra]

Well maybe it is time to consider another data center for the US because the numbers and money they are making clearly justify it especially for the EU that is dealing with 10k queues and have had issues for months.

This has been a slow moving train wreck everyone saw coming.

A new datacenter for the US isn't going to solve EU problems. EU needs a new datacenter first.

I don't think I'll ever get tired of seeing people coming out of the woodworks to defend SE on something like this, when I said "Poor Disadvantaged Multi-Billion Dollar SquareEnix" I meant it with a silent /s but damn, some people take it (and the convenient excuses SE & corporates make) seriously.

People are defending Yoshi P and his team because A. They've clearly done the best they could under the current circumstances of the world. And B. Yoshi P and his team have earned a lot of good will since 2.0 launched and thus people are inclined to have a less cynical view than if it were Activision Blizzard. People like you are just coming off as petulant and spoiled.

[Xatsh]

People have a right to be mad about the situation, but people have to realize it is not really 100% SE's fault. And this is not me blindly supporting them. They even publicly made posts of what the problem is and warned people this would most likely happen at launch ahead of time due to this.

Before the explosion in popularity, pre-covid basically, the servers were able to adequately handle the players attempting to log in. So why would they update them all at this time. Shadowbringer's launch had some ques but not this bad of stability issues, basically just a 5-10min wait to get in which is acceptable in my opinion for a major AAA launch. Move to the time of the Cov and the monstrous population boom.... well the old stuff is simply being worked beyond capacity and SE cannot get the parts to fix the problem.

The supply chain shortages in the world are hurting all industries. Exact same reason car factories in the US are Idleing the whole plants on and off even with a huge demand for vehicles atm. New Gaming Systems are hard to get. Newer Videocards are sold out for months. They simply cannot get the parts to build them fast enough to meet demand.

[RoaringDonkey]

ooooo i wonder if they ever considered restricting the early access availability as they knew the servers were going to be a bone of contention........

crickets !!!!