Quote Originally Posted by Hasrat View Post
This should also be a strong, STRONG, indicator of how SE just could not have anticipated these troubles. It wasn't that long ago that EU players were complaining about how the new worlds and data center split resulted in longer duty queues and the feeling that servers were just empty.

Somewhere in the last year or two, EU population has exploded, and that is not nearly enough time for them to react accordingly, even in the best of times.
Both are not mutually exclusive, we don't only have less data centers we also have less servers per data center. So we reach capacity more easily with high traffic and have less people around during lulls because we have only 6 servers as opposed to 8 for US data centers and 11 for Japan.

Our servers have been packed for a while, it was not a mystery this would happen. We didn't suddenly become a continent overnight.