Response to Congestion (as of Dec. 15)

[Nothv13]

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.

[Theodric]

I felt his soul in his post. It's not the usual happy Yoshi P. It's a beat up version of him. I really feel bad even if it was someone else translating for him, you could still feel it in the writing. I hope he's okay and I hope he's not smoking more than usual (I hate that he smokes, he's such an amazing guy to be smoking). Smoking and stress is a deadly combination. PLEASE YOSHI P. we understand, it's out of your control and you're doing great for the things you have control over. Transparency is what I love most about these types of posts. Rarely are devs transparent especially on things that are going wrong. So thank you!

Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves. Many big businesses have legal teams and public relations agents who comb through any official statement in order to deliberately make it as inoffensive and inclusive as possible.

The language used doesn't strike me as any different to any other official statement pushed out by a major company during a period of strife. Each to their own, though!

[Velnora]

I mean, they should of stopped preorders BEFORE launch. Guess this is an example of creating a problem, then coming up with a fix later and saying "progress". Taking a page from Ole'Blizz, eh?

[Avidria]

Nice. Glad to see it.

[Viirin]

I mean, they should of stopped preorders BEFORE launch. Guess this is an example of creating a problem, then coming up with a fix later and saying "progress". Taking a page from Ole'Blizz, eh?

What could they do to make you not complain? A realistic thing, not "set up new servers by this evening".

[KizuyaKatogami]

Took long enough jesus. The moment people started having login issues and mass reported the 2002 error and had 6k+ queues they should’ve stopped the sales. Server issues aren’t an unknown thing. Theyve been a problem since Heavensward. They didn’t do much about it then, and then we got Raubahn ex. Baffles me how many people think this is just now a problem lmao.

[NefarioCall]

Just comin in here to say what everyone else is thinking...
2002 is 1.0's final revenge!

[Pesan]

Do players who use game time cards get it as well or do they need to make a subscription?

You get the time as well. Prepaid time is still an active sub. With prepaid time the free time is just added to the end. So say with game time normally your time expires Jan 10th, now 21 days are added so your new expire time is Jan 31st.

[Dionysius]

Took long enough jesus. The moment people started having login issues and mass reported the 2002 error and had 6k+ queues they should’ve stopped the sales. Server issues aren’t an unknown thing. Theyve been a problem since Heavensward. They didn’t do much about it then, and then we got Raubahn ex. Baffles me how many people think this is just now a problem lmao.

People like you don't deserve Yoshi-p. I secretly wish he took 6 months break and holiday to get away from this bullshit and disguise it as if he's stepping down and replaced by Tanaka or someone else.
Then you can have your field day complaining 24x7 LMAO.

[Reinha]

21 free sub days and an amazing expansion with no delay to 6.05. Christmas came early! <3