it's a little frustrating knowing the amount of time and effort it takes to set up a physical data centre -- let alone during a chip shortage -- and now the people on there are angry there's nobody to play with but i'd like to remind people that there was a not insignificant push from JP players who hated sharing their servers with OCE which is the actual reason why this happened.

they were straight-up celebrating when it happened. so before you go off blaming the people on there just try to remember that they weren't the only ones asking for this and it would've happened either way.