Response to Congestion (as of Dec. 15)

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A few things. I think this addressed a huge chunk of problems. But it also shows the constant pressure and who knows how many cancelled subs are making them act.



Finally for the chip shortage people. July is when he said they started plans for more. That means zero growth planned for EU/NA over two years. They literally waited till WoW imploded. You don't get a cookie for doing the right thing after you should have done it. We should have had a couple new worlds. Which would mean nothing with WoW imploding. But would show so much more trust and basic commitment to QoL for players. Now it sounds like whole new data centres.

Plans for OCE started before that are were still pushed back due to product shortages. Plans for a more immediate solution (they apparently had plans for some of this for 7.0 or post 7.0) to the rest of the data centers started the moment the un predictable influx of players came. Until that point, what they had was sufficient to handle the slow and rather predictable growth of players. You cannot expect a company to predict the unpredictable and purchase outside of need or planned upgrade.