Yeah guys. 1 month free time is going to have to happen

[Haseno]

All you have to do is to notice he has a Ron Paul quote in his signature. He really should see someone.

Yes, I have a quote from a brilliant man in my signature. Whom was also an economist and an expert on monetary theory. Perhaps you should listen to someone whom understands how bad government policy results in supply shortages, and makes it increasingly difficult for companies like Square Enix to acquire the products (hardware) they need to add servers and alleviate congestion.

Square Enix specifically cited these supply shortages caused by government policy as to why they're having problems.

Cause and Effect.

[hynaku]

There wasn't a chip shortage three years ago, and as I understand, New World's stability is awful. Are those really the comparisons you want to make?

I haven't had one problem with New world or my friend that plays it to. I don't have any lag or connection problems on it.

[Haseno]

I haven't had one problem with New world or my friend that plays it to. I don't have any lag or connection problems on it.

Amazon owns 40% of all cloud servers in the United States. They aren't as hindered by the supply shortages as Square Enix.

[BigBossCL]

Ugh, so many armchair devs in this thread.

AWS is a cloud hosting solution... but you know what AWS is hosted on? Actual physical servers. Its still possible to run out of hardware if you need to spin up too many instances. It also tends to run like absolute doo doo. (New World and Star Citizen are both AWS)

The chip shortage is due to a combination of factors, not just government intervention. Private companies almost stopping production during the early parts of the pandemic, but not being able to scale back up quick enough to meet demand, and subsequently, suppliers doing the same, is the foremost reason.

So when people say "why doesn't Square just buy more servers 4head", Square is competing with pretty much everything under the sun that needs server hardware, and even server hardware is competing with other industries, like automotive manufacturing, because guess what, modern cars have a lot of computerized stuff in them. This is across most industries.

So Square Enix, the $4 Billion company, is competing against say, Tencent who is a $458 Billion company. If one server stack becomes available, who do you think its gonna get it at highest bid?

[Xarcabard778]

Ohhhh buddy you should've been there for BC at launch back in the day. You didn't get ANY free time and I'd have to wake up at 4 AM to play and it was still a mess.

*sigh* those were the days but yeah we're lucky we're even getting a week.

[strawberrycake]

I do, and 4 billion dollar companies take pay from workers not Board members and CEOs. So I say again, how about No?

[Haseno]

Ohhhh buddy you should've been there for BC at launch back in the day. You didn't get ANY free time and I'd have to wake up at 4 AM to play and it was still a mess.

*sigh* those were the days but yeah we're lucky we're even getting a week.

Some of us oldschool MMORPG'rs still remember having to patch and play on dial-up.

Trying to raid in Everquest and dodge phone calls so it didn't disconnect you.

Ah, the glory days of MMORPG's.

[Overthier]

Yes, I have a quote from a brilliant man in my signature. Whom was also an economist and an expert on monetary theory. Perhaps you should listen to someone whom understands how bad government policy results in supply shortages, and makes it increasingly difficult for companies like Square Enix to acquire the products (hardware) they need to add servers and alleviate congestion.

Square Enix specifically cited these supply shortages caused by government policy as to why they're having problems.

Cause and Effect.

Lol some quotes from your Brilliant man -

1. "Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks."

2. "Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."

3.(Speaking about MLK Day) What an infamy Ronald Reagan approved it! We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day."

This isn't getting into other stuff like his anti-Semitic views, Or his hate towards LGBTQ+ community. Or even the fact that he voted against making people be forced to report pedos they find downloading CP. But yes, you continue worshiping your "Brilliant Man"

[Myrany]

Ohhhh buddy you should've been there for BC at launch back in the day. You didn't get ANY free time and I'd have to wake up at 4 AM to play and it was still a mess.

*sigh* those were the days but yeah we're lucky we're even getting a week.

I was there I remember well

Which is why I am not throwing a fit about all this. I play for half and hour 45 minutes in early morning before work and then I will put in big hours on the weekend when I can log in early morning and stay playing for hours.

[Ironman2ooo]

Yeah but the private compagny still have oversell his product when fully aware they could not back it up si the compagny is not better than the government.

Not to mention the influx of World of Warcraft refugees added to server bloat, I know they saw that coming before the expansion launch.