The waiting times are horrible for any working adult

[DarkBahamut]

And you still refuse to get that it doesn't matter if it was 'to be expected a mile away' when even before the influx of the last 6 months it was already impossible to get what they needed. And just like so many others, you mistake 'excuses' with 'an actual valid reason'. You honestly think a shortage that has the entire industrial world from car manufacturing to computers ground to a stand still is a 'baseless excuse'?

The problem is they keep saying semi-conductor shortage, and while there is a shortage there isn't zero supply. Their argument falls apart once you actually put it to the test. You can order a high end maxed out server and the lead time is currently about a month. A more mid-range server has a 3-day lead time. Sure, it's not tomorrow, but if they've really been trying for 7 months then they'd have had the hardware long ago.

It's a little bit like how they said the 2002 error was due to user packet loss, but we found out they deliberately time out connections after 15 minutes and when the client reconnects if the data centre is full you get a 2002. It actually has nothing to do with packet loss of the client end.

Square Enix/the dev team aren't being completely truthful and they're getting found out.

[Rei_Kagene]

The problem is they keep saying semi-conductor shortage, and while there is a shortage there isn't zero supply. Their argument falls apart once you actually put it to the test. You can order a high end maxed out server and the lead time is currently about a month. A more mid-range server has a 3-day lead time. Sure, it's not tomorrow, but if they've really been trying for 7 months then they'd have had the hardware long ago.

It's a little bit like how they said the 2002 error was due to user packet loss, but we found out they deliberately time out connections after 15 minutes and when the client reconnects if the data centre is full you get a 2002. It actually has nothing to do with packet loss of the client end.

Square Enix/the dev team aren't being completely truthful and they're getting found out.

Exactly that's the thing. I have written a script about 2 years ago to track my Internet connection at all times (cause I had problems with my provider back then and he demanded proof of my bad conneciton).
I switched providers by now but kept the tracker. My connection is absolutely flawless, no package loss at all, and yet I still get these error messages.