Quote Originally Posted by elvenmad View Post
See this "Semiconductor shortage" being used as a type of excuse quite alot, but defiantly for EU and NA it's not, not sure about Japanese servers, maybe they do own them, but 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.

Maybe, just maybe, due to covid and more people playing online games these sever company's have increased the cost slightly to "cash in" hence I believe its more a fact that Square do not want to lease more server capacity for the EU and NA regions as a more save the huge influx of revenue for them. This is not a fault of the FFXIV team, Yoshi etc this is down the Square themselves they are the ones who control the purse strings and have set budgets for each of the game projects and publishers.

just down to corporate greed, they literally don't want to spend their huge influx of profit
though i can understand your thoughts even the part about how they don't have stocks and stocks of server replacements, but I would also suggest that they did not increase their cost (and haven't since ARR) to the players to "CASH IN" suggests that they are not trying to milk their players for more. also many people around the forums throw the term "LEASE MORE SERVERS" what I can see with that term, you mean go to a company and pay for a set of servers. Thing is do you know how the game is coded? how their networks are set up? can they 100% easily just plop the code on AWS or microsoft Azure? I would say probably not since this was being made back in 2011-2013 and they coded for a specific network capability and can not just go somewhere else to get space for people to "PLAY" in.

Now there is a risk/reward setup by holding extra stock of servers etc. Problem here was experienced by a company that was undone by their want to have a physical store front, Gateway who originally made computers to specification, and they were great, their machines were good, and well built but that was in the 80's and early 90's and even a bit into the 2000's. but when they began stores, they couldn't just have someone walk into a store and expect the same kind of service that best buy gave by having the computer on hand for you to walk out with and keep their make on order which took 2-3 weeks plus shipping times. They had to maintain stock in the stores of the various models, and then have stock in warehouses to ship when things got sold. They tried to make the lower level computers but people actually didn't like the lower class of machines from a company that sold specifically built ones. so they saw their lower level computers stagnate so they ended up loosing out on a lot of money because of that excess inventory becuase computer power and capability continually escalates and they had to dump so many on whole sale companies for less than they even paid for those and then come out with another lower level line that did the same. eventually the gateway country stores closed and gateway had ruined their reputation to the point i believe they were bought though i can't remember so i might be wrong that they were bought by another. another company that shot themselves in the foot was Alienware, they started putting out units that over heated because it was powerful but not cooled well enough. Dell then purchased Alienware and the brand survives now through them and those pcs are good (I know that the alienware didn't touch the extra stock but it shows that some things need to be observed instead of stockpiled). so that 's why corporations do not like having EXCESS stock on hand to deal with a certain level of projected loss due to use/age etc.