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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.

If they had plans to expand server capacity, that means they had already projected the need for it. Where did they get the data for such a projection? They had the sales numbers, they had years of data showing MAU growth and the rate at which MAU was increasing. So you're basically calling their market analysts idiots. But you're also stuck on the spike from 2021. Which would have had absolutely nothing to do with their plans to expand server capacity because that was already planned by the summer, they had mentioned it prior to that.

You white knights really need to get off the "muh population spike" and look at the proceeding years growth numbers. But that's obviously asking for far too much of your side. You white knights also need to stop gaslighting people.

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.

Blizzard's fall is irrelevant, as has been pointed out over and over and over and over. But you can't take your blinders off to see anything but that. And when that's all you can see it blinds you to how weak your own position is. It illustrates a lack of understanding and knowledge of MAU, population data, and how those are used to predict needs far in advance. There was nothing unavoidable about this if SE had not treated FFXIV like the red-headed step child of the company, like they've been doing for years.

What baffles me most, though, is how I've repeatedly brought up the previous years' growth and rate of growth increase, but you and yours just outright ignore that and tunnel vision on "muh 2021 spike". It's like having a broken leg but you're more worried about the papercut on your finger.
Case in point....

Please tell me, how SE could have predicted the mass exodus from WoW, and a global pandemic that has caused supply chain shortages for hundreds of industries across the globe?