Aether Data Center Down

[Ablongman]

It's not SEs fault that a bunch of people said we are going to all play on these 2 servers.

Right, God forbid that people with similar interests try to play on the same server. How dare they?!

You and all the others slinging mud at other players are part of the problem. This isn't novel behavior that could not have been predicted. People knew that Balmung and Gilgamesh would be packed at least a week prior to 2.0 Early Access, because both the prominent RP communities and various social media communities had expressed their intentions to congregate there as soon as the server list was made known.

SE chose to place them in the same datacenter, and chose not to mitigate the issue for Heavensward. Splitting them up would have been as simple as renaming two servers prior to 2.0 launch. It's true that it isn't SE's fault that those servers are packed now, but it is SE's responsibility to monitor their population levels and take preventive and corrective actions to foster a good game experience for all its clients. You're no more entitled to an issue-free experience than any other subscriber, so wise up and demand it from the people who have both the power and the obligation to provide it, and who've repeatedly failed to do so because they'd rather apologize than actually fix the problems plaguing their playerbase.