Quote Originally Posted by Shug View Post
If this was my first mmo, I’d leave. WOW doesn’t have these problems, so that big surge of people could leave. So yes, this could in fact hurt them.
i've played wow for 10 years, even in my 10th year of wow "never play on patch day" was a meme everyone held dear, and even without playing a quick google search finds me multiple articles as well as reddit pages of people complaining about shadowlands launch including unstable servers aswell as queues of hell. if you think they could have added like half of ffxiv current playerbase as a surprise gift 4 months before expansion launch and not broken down completly than i want whatever stuff it is that gives you your optimism.