Sincere Recommendation: Accept you will not be able to play, walk away for a while

[Divinemights]

They only did this after the issues. The warning I'm talking about would have been before this became a big deal. Telling me the servers are full and that's why I can't play is something I could have figured out myself from not being able to play. What's wrong with asking "ok, how full?" and making my decision based on that afterwards? And yeah other companies have done worse things, that has nothing to do with SE right now. I don't expect them to just spawn servers out of thin air(cause it got nerfed ha) or just fix 2002 right away or anything. Is my request really so out of there?

In current situation, yes, you are really asking if impossible.
Estimated lost of 21 days for entire playerbase is up to around 12 millions US dollars, on top of all holding sales during Chrimas shopping season; a period where NA has most purchasing power is a huge loss.
Please name me a gaming company willing to take such loss.

Beside, all company's projection was done near Q4 2020 (all company fiscal year start on Oct as Q1) right in middle of chip shortage where the plan for new datacenter.
Out of no where, WoW exodus happened at Jan 2021 and an increase of FF14 popularity in Jun 2021.
How are they going to know?
Right now, you are sitting here point finger only because it is after the fact, it doesn't make you wiser or smarter.
None of us expect population growth this rapidly.
I personally only expecting que to be around 2,000 at worst before expansion.

Not to mention, US government always has a plan for how to deal with pandemic, did that work well with Covid 19?
No one can foreseeing the future and being so prepared