Quote Originally Posted by Kes13a View Post
as always, someones going to complain...
as always someone will jump through hoops to defend them.


Quote Originally Posted by Nothv13 View Post
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.

Let's agree 7.0 was the plan. You know how many years of growth that is? Let us not include WoW. The game has shown growth after the player dip in stormblood. Next let us say the JPN world numbers are the acceptable stable amount of players per world since they have never reduced the amount of worlds there. Is EU/NA anywhere close to that per world pre WoW? No one is saying that they should have ordered enough for new data centres. They should have had a new world or two going live.



Also unless the server team are not Japanese, they have lied about travel if OCE is in Australia. Both countries for most of the year have allowed travel for business needs. Again that was never gong to make a real dent in NA/EU anyways. SE is/was being cheap as they are in the money making business. They were waiting half a decade (7.0) to see how bad players experience would be before spending money. This isn't about WoW or chip shortage. It is about the player base supporting greed over QoL.