Subscription consumption while being unable to play

[FunkyBunch]

I don't think you understand the scope of one of these servers. These are massive multi-million dollar plus machines that takes weeks to even setup that are likely super custom with huge lead times. If you've worked in Enterprise before, you'd understand it's not that simple. Yeah I can get a couple servers off the shelf right now. But if I want one that does the job I need tomorrow, I need to have ordered it at least a year ago. Probably longer for super specialized ones.

[Walkerged]

I don't think you understand the scope of one of these servers. These are massive multi-million dollar plus machines that takes weeks to even setup that are likely super custom with huge lead times. If you've worked in Enterprise before, you'd understand it's not that simple. Yeah I can get a couple servers off the shelf right now. But if I want one that does the job I need tomorrow, I need to have ordered it at least a year ago. Probably longer for super specialized ones.

After a manner of speaking that's the point I think some of us are trying to make. They've had the time to plan properly, or to further delay the expansion with a public apology, but don't appear to have chosen either course.

[ApeKing]

These are massive multi-million dollar plus machines...

Citation Needed

[FunkyBunch]

Citation Needed

-Seeing quotes for the crappy Linux servers the EMR at my old company was using that met the design specifications. A moderate host for a 2 virtual server setup with 10 TB RAID 10, and 128 GB RAM with a handful of Xeons was around 188k. And that was for Dev. For production they rang 500k/piece. And that was for a shitty web application with 15-20 small apps hosting about 500 users each at max.

[NasaLaughta]

I don't think you understand the scope of one of these servers. These are massive multi-million dollar plus machines that takes weeks to even setup that are likely super custom with huge lead times.

Eh, you aren't wrong I guess. The amount of server blades and hardware and people to run that stuff costs a LOT of money. But this is Square Enix we are talking about and they had months to prepare for this knowing it was going to be a thing.