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

[Moonlite]

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

See if the believed in actual growth they would have ordered way before the WoW thing. some servers were already showing strain before WoW. They have been notoriously cheap with this game and pushed the consequences onto the customers. That is why lots of players are less likely to believe semi conductor issue. They have QoL punished players with poor servers since ARR(yes that includes the upgrades). Also the fact that the dev team said new worlds and not new data centre means they weren't willing to make the tough decision to break Aether again. The data centres need another re-balance sadly.

I can only talk for the EU servers but the situation on EU was completly predictable.
The EU has only 2 datacenter with 12 servers, US has 3 datacenter with 24 servers and JP has 3 Datacenter with 32 servers... what did people expect from this?
There is NO suprise that the EU servers get clogget like a toilet with ques over 10.000 people and the "real" release is even still to come.
They should have give EU a third datacenter ages ago but instead we are doomed to play the "wait till its over" game.

What happen to all the players that were mad about the dilution of the PF? I am honestly curious. I remember EU players were quite upset with a second data centre.