Sincere Recommendation: Accept you will not be able to play, walk away for a while

[DPZ2]

Well from what I've been reading more people than ever in the history of the game are trying to log in, but they didn't add any new servers & now they can't buy anymore. It's a cop-out though because they should've bought some right as covid hit since they knew more money was on the horizon just from people having nothing to do not to mention their expansion being only a year or so away... it's not like they already had BILLIONS of dollars sitting around or anything... nope SE just runs on bare-bones... lul.

Congratulations! If you know Japanese, you might qualify as a marketing/sales forecaster for a major Japanese gaming company! Your elite skills are on display right here ...

Or not.

The game has been running fine since Shadowbringers launched back in, what, 2019. The rapid implosion of World of Warcraft in 2021, and the drift of players looking for something new was not predicted back in March of 2020. Why would a major company, just at the start of a major world-wide pandemic, suddenly decide to increase the number of servers in the existing data centers when projected growth was well within bounds of the current hardware, and the continued existence of a large player base was put into doubt by events beyond the corporations control?

lul. < does this make the post better? more palatable? show that I'm just speaking ironically? give me an out if someone takes the prognostication badly? >

[XplicitX]

Quote Originally Posted by XplicitX View Post
Well from what I've been reading more people than ever in the history of the game are trying to log in, but they didn't add any new servers & now they can't buy anymore. It's a cop-out though because they should've bought some right as covid hit since they knew more money was on the horizon just from people having nothing to do not to mention their expansion being only a year or so away... it's not like they already had BILLIONS of dollars sitting around or anything... nope SE just runs on bare-bones... lul.

Congratulations! If you know Japanese, you might qualify as a marketing/sales forecaster for a major Japanese gaming company! Your elite skills are on display right here ...

Or not.

The game has been running fine since Shadowbringers launched back in, what, 2019. The rapid implosion of World of Warcraft in 2021, and the drift of players looking for something new was not predicted back in March of 2020. Why would a major company, just at the start of a major world-wide pandemic, suddenly decide to increase the number of servers in the existing data centers when projected growth was well within bounds of the current hardware, and the continued existence of a large player base was put into doubt by events beyond the corporations control?

lul. < does this make the post better? more palatable? show that I'm just speaking ironically? give me an out if someone takes the prognostication badly? >

So you're saying that even without covid or the WoW issue that they couldn't at least add/rent some more space just for the regular surge that comes with this game? Dude I'm coming back after 6 years or so & even I know a large portion of the player base just checks out once they run out of stuff to do which means a BUNCH of people always rush back like clockwork, unlike other non-sub games where there's no need to walk away as there always more to do. Although now thanks to their minimal lack of even a tiny bit of foresight we're all screwed while they still get to keep everyone's money. I'm sorry, but you can't tell me they couldn't have said you know what let's prepare for the worst, but hope for the best & make sure the people who pay for EVERYTHING are taken care of... it's not like they couldn't just sell the servers to someone else if it turned out they didn't really need them & for way more than what they paid to begin with.