Quote Originally Posted by FunkyBunch View Post
It means some supply of some chips are available. On low dollar, low specialization chips. Servers are astronomically complicated. And you need exactly the right combination from specific vendors to even get them to work. With a TV I can use a thousand different parts from a thousand different manufacturers. With a server, I need to buy a specific set of motherboard(s) and card modules from one company, a set of processors from one company, and hundreds of sticks of ram from one company. And I can't mix items even with "identical" specs because they just won't boot. And if I can't find all of that at the same time, I can't make my server. And if it's been built for a specialized load, like some super data center specific IBM chip at the core, then you're looking at even less choice. You're essentially locked into a specific vendor.
Again, the point isn't that the required components aren't available at all. The situation is more likely the required components either aren't available in the price deemed reasonable by Square Enix or time frame deemed reasonable by the players.