Look at the state of the forums.

[Ryaz]

Sure, if you just completely ignore that they had years to plan for this and plenty of market and trend data to justify hardware purchases long before this "shortage" and the world treating a runny nose like Black Plague 2.0.

Yes, they had YEARS to predict a pandemic, cryptocurrency miners buying up all the hardware and a recently huge influx of players from another MMO. Judging from you dismissal of covid, though, facts probably don't mean much to you in the first place.