Quote Originally Posted by Moonlite View Post
Travel was much more open for business between Japan and USA. Not ideal, but who knows when it will ever be. And if SE says it wasn't possible they are lying. Business travel has happened for many people. Again some shitty hoops to jump through. But that might be the cost of doing business going forward.



The question would be more logistically could they have moved them from OCE to USA. Also it does show that SE can get hardware, they just have to wait. They predicted poorly and now the player base suffers. It is the same for other industries as well though, companies predicted poorly and are unable to provide a decent product. The customers have to live with it. It just shows until they had actual people playing, someone at SE did not believe in the growth potential of 14.
I think its a bit more complex and we dont know the entire story because of culture.

lets say SE went to company X (likely their preferred seller of hardware) and said, we need these servers, here is time frame. Company X says no problem. they had enough lead time, they were working on other things, then the crunch starts happening, and company X is finding it harder to source needed parts. they stall, because its a big order. by the time SE finds out from company X no way no how, SE is then scrambling to find the sever hardware even above market value... and cannot because of the shortages. I honestly dont think they had the server hardware to even move to the US at that point even if they wanted. they wont blame company X because of the culture.

the predicting, I am sure they predicted modest growth simple because you dont predict another company like WoW simply imploding. you cannot predict a massive influx of 2-300,000 active players over a couple month time span

I am certain they believed in the growth potential of 14.. just not the implosion and massive migrative growth of 14 in a short time span. not many could I think