Why no new servers? Not just this launch but the last 8 months?

[Akasier]

Yeah, not their fault on not being able to acquire more semi conductors, you would know that if you've shopped for a simple computer within the past few months. (hint, I shopped for a xmas gift in October, delivery not until February through a well known company)

2002 is their bigger issue, hopefully they'll resolve that.

[Fador]

Well thank Hydaelyn my payment to pre purchase hasn't been working through the square enix website. Seems like it's best for me to wait a week or so before buying it.

[Brill_]

Why no new servers?

From Yoshi P in July of this year:

Problem 1: Insufficient Servers Due to Semiconductor Shortage
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen an extreme drop in semiconductor production in factories across the globe. This, coupled with an increase in demand for electronics due to more people working at home, has resulted in an international shortage of semiconductors that, in turn, has resulted in a prolonged delay in the delivery of the servers we ordered for our data centers.

We have even looked into investing more than market value to speed up delivery, but to no avail. We are not giving up, however, and are in continued talks with vendors from around the world to find a timely solution to this problem.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...0acb6c23ccd07f

[MsQi]

A stitch in time saves nine.

The servers needed upgrading since before ShadowBringers. Putting it off was the mistake, covid and asmongold just made it worse.

[lezard21]

Not as if they didn't have a bunch of spare servers for the planned OCE DC they couldn't have shipped to the US/EU DCs like 4 months ago when they saw the spike in players from the WoW migration.

They could have postponed the OCE DC just like they postponed EW in order to give a better playing experience to their customers.

[Minsue]

Can someone at Square Enix explain why in the last 8 months no new servers were added? Was there an expectation that the MMO's population would see a massive decline prior to Endwalker?

Was there not enough data provided to show this was not happening? Every single server is locked to creating new characters so even if a new person wanted to play FF14 right now they LITERALLY cannot in America.

At no point in time did anyone consider adding a new server? Is the trauma of 1.0 that bad at Square Enix that the most obvious solution was ignored?

This had been answered by the developer several times for months now.

[Minsue]

Not as if they didn't have a bunch of spare servers for the planned OCE DC they couldn't have shipped to the US/EU DCs like 4 months ago when they saw the spike in players from the WoW migration.

They could have postponed the OCE DC just like they postponed EW in order to give a better playing experience to their customers.

What about our oce customers are you saying your more Important then them? Sounds pretty entitled to me.

[lezard21]

What about our oce customers are you saying your more Important then them? Sounds pretty entitled to me.

Yes, the current playerbase is more important than potential future playerbase. The current playerbase is currently paying now and not getting access to the content they paid for. There won't be a potential future playerbase if they see that the current playerbase is not getting access to the content they paid for.

[Kes13a]

Yes, the current playerbase is more important than potential future playerbase. The current playerbase is currently paying now and not getting access to the content they paid for. There won't be a potential future playerbase if they see that the current playerbase is not getting access to the content they paid for.

except those players in the OCE are not POTENTIAL. they are already players, and have been playing trans pacific for years because many of them log into NA servers.

its comments like that, where you actively ignore other parts of the CURRENT player base that makes you look bad. saying you are more important than other CURRENT players who pay just like you do... what makes you so special exactly?

[lezard21]

except those players in the OCE are not POTENTIAL. they are already players, and have been playing trans pacific for years because many of them log into NA servers.

its comments like that, where you actively ignore other parts of the CURRENT player base that makes you look bad. saying you are more important than other CURRENT players who pay just like you do... what makes you so special exactly?

:yawns: how will the future OCE server help the CURRENT OCE players that are not able to play right now due to lack of servers?

It's comments like this that make you look bad since it looks like you either are not able to understand what you are reading, or purposedfully choose to be obtuse to troll.