ELI5: Why the absolute hell did SE not use Azure or AWS as a temporary solution?

[Floortank]

Isn't failing to do anything for the last nine months to improve servers to prepare for this launch when they have the data to show their MoM growth and historical data to show the increase in returning players for an expansion even worse? It's not like the idea is "do it in 2 days" but they had MONTHS to prepare for this launch and have utterly failed in that regard.

In the same vein, you had nine months to understand how bad it would be on week one. Also twenty years, give or take, to understand that every major MMO game launch in the history of time has been like this.

[Larirawiel]

In the same vein, you had nine months to understand how bad it would be on week one. Also twenty years, give or take, to understand that every major MMO game launch in the history of time has been like this.

This is not true. Rift: Planes of Telara had a very smooth start. And Trion was not very experienced because this was their first MMORPG.

Cheers