It's apparent SE doesn't care that non-JP servers are encountering 2002 issues

[elvenmad]

"The queue system is badly programmed, full of bugs, and doesn't live up to modern standards, making the login experience frustrating and unfair"

"BUT SEMICONDUCTOR SHORTAGE!!!!!!111!!!!!!1111!"

Makes perfect sense.

Semiconductor shortage is just BS, its a lame excuse.
As my previous post: For EU and NA the servers are leased, for EU I know for a fact there in Frankfurt Germany, and is the very same server company that provide servers for 100's if not 1000's of publishers in the EU, WoW, Tera, Rift..practically all the EU servers for games published in the EU are from the same company, which now makes you think, if more people are playing FFXIV and not other games the overall load on servers is still the same as before Endwalker, for every player not playing X game is now playing Y instead = still same load on servers.

Currently for EU this is not a high load time of year, the severs are no were near "full" and they ALWAYS have a safe, standard load limit with options to "boost" for high load times, server capacity is down to how much server capacity Square have leased, they could increase but obviously at an extra cost, clearly they dont want to do that, its their choice and the game currently is suffering for it, next week it will get worse for sure xmas week more people of work, school etc, but this is all squares fault.