Quote Originally Posted by CazzT View Post
FFXIV has been growing for YEARS. The spike in population in 2021 is irrelevant in the face of that fact. Market analysts would have seen the rate at which the population was growing and would have told SE that they need to deal with the problem, and they would have said that long before "muh chip shortage" and covid and Blizz being outted as the trash company they are. All of you that keep harping on about "muh population spike" just ignore reality and the fact that the population of FFXIV was already seeing a massive increase in its rate of growth long before your precious spike. And the problems with servers go back years, not months.
The irony of you disrespectfully calling someone "karen" and telling them to "do some research" when you need to do some yourself about the server issues FFXIV has had and the rate at which the population for FFXIV has been growing for years.
FFXIV active population Tripled in one year (if not 4 months). This was not even close to anything anyone could have projected AND they were growing along with their market projected growth. They had plans to expand servers and capacity that were delayed.

You can complain about all manner of things this game does wrong, but faulting a company for not foreseeing the crash of the industry leader along with a mass exodus makes your position weak. Launches are always rough, but this is one is especially rough because of several unavoidable factors.