Subscription consumption while being unable to play

[agbear9]

People act like because there is a chip shortage means you can't buy any servers anywhere. I'm sure they are doing all they can, but damn... a chip shortage is a reason a GPU may be expensive, not a reason for a giant company not to be able to buy a few more servers for a game... lol

Um have you even been keeping up on it? It's not hitting just GPUs. The car companies have to ship cars, trucks, etc bare bones for the most part because of the chip shortage. My Uncle who owns a company that makes battery testers can't get what he needs. This is not a GPU issue it's a world wide tech issue in that anything that needs and uses chips can't get them.

The only tech that you can find are TVs and PC monitors.

[Walkerged]

The only tech that you can find are TVs and PC monitors.

The fact that TVs and PC monitors have chips in them means someone is getting the chips somewhere. So, it's not that semiconductors aren't available at all, they aren't available in the numbers needed to keep up with demand which makes the price of what is available go up. In other words, Server Hardware and chips are available to those who want to pay the price required or have the patience to wait for their order to be filled.

[FunkyBunch]

The fact that TVs and PC monitors have chips in them means someone is getting the chips somewhere. So, it's not that semiconductors aren't available at all, they aren't available in the numbers needed to keep up with demand which makes the price of what is available go up. In other words, Server Hardware and chips are available to those who want to pay the price required or have the patience to wait for their order to be filled.

It means some supply of some chips are available. On low dollar, low specialization chips. Servers are astronomically complicated. And you need exactly the right combination from specific vendors to even get them to work. With a TV I can use a thousand different parts from a thousand different manufacturers. With a server, I need to buy a specific set of motherboard(s) and card modules from one company, a set of processors from one company, and hundreds of sticks of ram from one company. And I can't mix items even with "identical" specs because they just won't boot. And if I can't find all of that at the same time, I can't make my server. And if it's been built for a specialized load, like some super data center specific IBM chip at the core, then you're looking at even less choice. You're essentially locked into a specific vendor.

[Walkerged]

It means some supply of some chips are available. On low dollar, low specialization chips. Servers are astronomically complicated. And you need exactly the right combination from specific vendors to even get them to work. With a TV I can use a thousand different parts from a thousand different manufacturers. With a server, I need to buy a specific set of motherboard(s) and card modules from one company, a set of processors from one company, and hundreds of sticks of ram from one company. And I can't mix items even with "identical" specs because they just won't boot. And if I can't find all of that at the same time, I can't make my server. And if it's been built for a specialized load, like some super data center specific IBM chip at the core, then you're looking at even less choice. You're essentially locked into a specific vendor.

Again, the point isn't that the required components aren't available at all. The situation is more likely the required components either aren't available in the price deemed reasonable by Square Enix or time frame deemed reasonable by the players.