So the grace that SE earned from giving away 7 free days expires today...

[Maero]

can probably blame WoW for the price of an expansion being the price of a full game. they have charged full game price forever, so became the norm. myself, no need to unsub, havent had many errors after the first morning of EA when I tried foolishly to log in when it came up. first time I ever saw that error so did what I saw to do online, and only had a few times since. yes, still get stuck in queues if its later in the day, but have gotten lots of play time in.

There was a article the other day on N4G that SE was the only company to bring up prices of games on PC, which is obviously happening on console now also.
Everything is getting so damn expensive these days

[Vrankyl]

Yes this is the worst expansion launch ever.

Several World of Warcraft expansions would like to have a word with you. Especially the most notorious of them all *cough* Warlords *cough*.

[Remx]

Several World of Warcraft expansions would like to have a word with you. Especially the most notorious of them all *cough* Warlords *cough*.

I'm not even gonna hold you... Warlords is honestly becoming a bit on-par with this situation. However, definitely not for the same reasons.

[Rinhi]

I would like to point out, not everyone knew or goes looking for the population of a server before starting an MMO, I started on Excalibur, I didn't know, and even now don't know the pop of my server, I assume it must be kinda big mostly cause the current queue times. lol do i wish i were on a lower pop server, yes and no, on one hand better queue times, but on the other hand, I do pretty well-selling glamours on Excalibur...plus, I'd hate to have to start my FC again, we just now got to level 8.

excal is the smallest NA server and we still have these cue times lmao

[Alexandre_Noireau]

Where are the defenders of the Cash Shop that whose profits supposedly are in it's entirity destinied to solve this kind of issues?
We called this happening MONTHS AGO. As complicated as you want to make your operation look like, even with the tiring excuse of covid, and meteor rains, and transistor shortages. This could have been prevented, if not at least, handled much better than this.

Anyway.

This issues just come to proof that there is no direct relationship between profits and service quality. None at all.

[lezard21]

Where are the defenders of the Cash Shop that whose profits supposedly are in it's entirity destinied to solve this kind of issues?
We called this happening MONTHS AGO. As complicated as you want to make your operation look like, even with the tiring excuse of covid, and meteor rains, and transistor shortages. This could have been prevented, if not at least, handled much better than this.

Anyway.

This issues just come to proof that there is no direct relationship between profits and service quality. None at all.

^This. Specially after all the money they made with the Lunar Whale and the long time requested Cruise Chaser that was stuffed into the Mogstation they should have more than enough money to buy an entire new USA Data center.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Where are the defenders of the Cash Shop that whose profits supposedly are in it's entirity destinied to solve this kind of issues?
We called this happening MONTHS AGO. As complicated as you want to make your operation look like, even with the tiring excuse of covid, and meteor rains, and transistor shortages. This could have been prevented, if not at least, handled much better than this.

Anyway.

This issues just come to proof that there is no direct relationship between profits and service quality. None at all.

Considering the needed equipment isn't even available for purchase and they've been trying... Yeah, sure mate.

And they called this happening months ago. We've been given notice well in advance that it was going to be rocky. They literally can't get the needed hardware to improve things.

[Yahallo]

We called this happening MONTHS AGO.

Chip Shortage started in 2020 and has been ongoing for over a year.

^This. Specially after all the money they made with the Lunar Whale and the long time requested Cruise Chaser that was stuffed into the Mogstation they should have more than enough money to buy an entire new USA Data center.

You know that they are launching an Oceanic Datacenter right? Current launch date for that is February 2022. So it is not like they didn't fund a new datacenter. Also, they did try to get even more servers, but could not due to the chip shortage.

[Vonleo]

^This. Specially after all the money they made with the Lunar Whale and the long time requested Cruise Chaser that was stuffed into the Mogstation they should have more than enough money to buy an entire new USA Data center.

Uhh what? You do know it isn't about the price right? It is about the availability. Think of it as a GPU or a PS5 or an Xbox Series X. There are just not enough to go around. You also know that next years shortage is actually going to be worse right? That's why TSMC and Sony are making a brand new chip factory in Japan. Construction starts 2022 and will be completed 2024. So yeah people need to get it through there heads that this chip shortage is just the beginning and next year is going to be even more insane in terms of prices going up and stock levels being even lower then they have been.

[Miesta]

I bought a Monk boost to 80 to surprise my husband. I've always hated the Monk class due to the required positions. I decided I would make it my main melee class instead of going for the flavor of the month club Reaper. I used the boost 9 hours ago...haven't been able to play since then. I'm currently waiting in another queue right now hoping that I don't get another 2002 error.