They knew this was coming and did nothing about it.

[ddwarbird]

Will you want a refund when this all blows over by the end of the week?

[GamesGainingTTV]

That week will have ended the early access and then the new areas will be swarmed with all the people who didn't preorder, causing a whole new mess with the official launch. Oh and you think they'll have the semi-conductors within a week xD lol.

[CoinTossRelic]

im still asking myself what was the purpose of the delay ,as the dev stated and i quote here : Naoki Yoshida says the delay was to ensure adequate quality assurance testing in the final days of development

sorry but i see nothing of that , zero , nada

The answer to your question has been in the live letters - the purpose of the delay was for further QA for bugs, engine performance, quest and spell checking, etc. and to alter what they could in-regards to EXISTING world performance since they did not have the hardware to implement new worlds and *further* server upgrades.

You were never going to "see" the results of the extended QA time in regards to the server influx and congestion you're seeing now; that's why *those* expectations have been relayed separately for almost months and weeks now.

[CoinTossRelic]

It’s beyond insane that people are defending a company selling a expansion knowing beforehand that most people wouldn’t be able to play it.

It's beyond insane that you haven't (apparently?) read a single live letter, announcement, forum announcement, dev communication or community discussion warning that this was likely going to be result. And we're not talking as if they started communicating this days ago - this has been at LEAST weeks now they've been informing players. If they hadn't communicated any of that, it'd be one thing. But that's not at all what happened. I have PLENTY of sympathy and share the frustration, believe me. But it's tempered by having been well informed, well in advance.

[DrFlesh]

Please, continue suggesting that they rely on Amazon, a direct competitor thanks to New World to provide their servers. Please tell me how that won't result in a company so notoriously unethical as Amazon screwing them over.

are you delusional? im srsly asking, you sound like you are 12 and talking about someone wo will steal your candy

the real world doesn't work like that, amazon is a server provider first and a crap developer second, im just amazed of how do you think the world works if you came with that line of thought (im debating between highschool kid or basement dweller)

what's next? amazon will stop selling games because they only want to sell the 2 games they make?

[EverQuest]

What I can't hear you my queue just 2002 at one again.

That's not entirely true though they wrote a statement awhile back stating they couldn't do anything, and they apologized 3 days before the problem occurred.

So you know they did do something.

[ZetsubouX]

are you delusional? im srsly asking, you sound like you are 12 and talking about someone wo will steal your candy

the real world doesn't work like that, amazon is a server provider first and a crap developer second, im just amazed of how do you think the world works if you came with that line of thought (im debating between highschool kid or basement dweller)

what's next? amazon will stop selling games because they only want to sell the 2 games they make?

I find your post to be quite ironic.
Not only do you call someone else delusional, while being delusional yourself, you also refer to them as being 12 years old.

I suggest you yourself find out how the real world works before implying that you do and that SnowVix doesn't.
Square Enix wants dedicated and reliable servers that are of excellent quality, so that they can purchase it for itself, as opposed to renting it.
They've basically said so in the past. I know this and I'm a new player who has been here for less than 2 weeks.

Finally, there is no shame in being either a "highschool kid" or a "basement dweller".
At least a highschool kid nor a basement dweller would resort to underhanded insults like you yourself have.

This tells me much more about you than you realise.
But please continue proclaiming "knowledge of how the world works", I bet you couldn't even properly explain gravity if I asked you to.

[EverQuest]

You realize GW2 also utilizes AWS with zero issues and better reliability.

Additionally AWS isn't the only one that could do it. AWS does have competitors as well you could use if you take personal issue with Amazon.

Square has also used AWS in the past (actually they use aws for other projects already in 2021) I believe they stated they loved it and it saved them money.. I'm sure they have a great working relationship with Amazon. So I'm a bit perplexed. Why you say otherwise, but you can check the square Enix AwS case study.

[Alex_Vardr]

They won't, it's listed in their fine print that all sales are FINAL and they will not refund any of it.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...9cad782363f25b

You were saying?

[DrFlesh]

I find your post to be quite ironic.
Not only do you call someone else delusional, while being delusional yourself, you also refer to them as being 12 years old.

I suggest you yourself find out how the real world works before implying that you do and that SnowVix doesn't.
Square Enix wants dedicated and reliable servers that are of excellent quality, so that they can purchase it for itself, as opposed to renting it.
They've basically said so in the past. I know this and I'm a new player who has been here for less than 2 weeks.

Finally, there is no shame in being either a "highschool kid" or a "basement dweller".
At least a highschool kid nor a basement dweller would resort to underhanded insults like you yourself have.

This tells me much more about you than you realise.
But please continue proclaiming "knowledge of how the world works", I bet you couldn't even properly explain gravity if I asked you to.

strawman to the moon!!!!!

explain pls what does square wanting to buy servers have to do with amazon stealing your lunch because they make new world