Should the launch have been delayed? What else could be done?

[Jennah]

a) It would have been like this whatever the release date was
b) The problem will naturally fix itself in a week or three, when fewer people are trying to log in at the same time.

Stinks for now, but ... it is what it is. If you can, try logging on early morning or even the middle of the night.

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

A delay would have done nothing.

They literally cannot get more server infrastructure atm due to the severe semi-conductor and chip shortages.

[Reaperking386]

You could just also delay it yourself. I mean it is not like you have to play it on early release or launch day.

[Amarande]

You could just also delay it yourself. I mean it is not like you have to play it on early release or launch day.

I think the problem here is the game's own culture puts such heavy pressure against it.

You could wait and play later. But then by the time you do, everyone is talking about who Darth Vader really is, you don't get any of the plot surprises unless you completely turn off chat/social media/etc. until you finish MSQ.

You could wait and play later. But then by the time you do, "community has it on farm" and you're expected to take a time-respect approach rather than a wide-eyed first timer one. Dungeons are to then be run like you're chasing WR clear times or people complain, maybe not to your face but you go on social media later and you hear people grumbling about that (job) holding up the run for everyone and not respecting their time (honestly, can we get OFF this respect our time kick? It's to the point where it practically seems people feel like their time is more important to respect than they themselves are. And I say this AS someone who often only has a couple hours after work to actually game before getting too sleepy to continue even if I don't have to work till afternoon the next day!). Trials are to be gone into fully spoiled to ensure one-shot clears whenever humanly possible. It's not the new player experience anymore.

You could wait and play later. But for similar reasons, you're basically screwed out of being able to do Pandaemonium Savage or the Ex trials under any kind of chill circumstances with any chance of success, as by then PF has boiled down to "duty complete farm" that you can't get into or endless mires of "progression" parties that don't make any as the proportion of people that just can't get it has got too high. Statics tend to become hard to find by that point as well unless you're around the community curve either. You could form your own, but - and I think this is an under-noted point - this is basically putting people under the gun to both learn the raid AND learn to raid lead at the same time, which can be pretty dang overwhelming, especially if you were nervous about the content to begin with.

If the community were less selfish and kinder to others, especially those who don't rush to keep up with "the curve" perhaps we would not have boxed ourselves into this mess - I understand there would be quite many who would still be driven by enthusiasm to experience the shiny new thing as soon as they can, but at least, not quite as badly as actually occurs.

[hynaku]

They should have delayed it and only add small parts to it. I think the chip shortage will be over by next year since read some big companies is going to start amking them Like Tesla.

[SnowVix]

They should have delayed it and only add small parts to it. I think the chip shortage will be over by next year since read some big companies is going to start amking them Like Tesla.

Delay an expansion by a whole year? The playerbase had a full on tantrum over ultimate being delayed to 6.1, then add an extra year to that?

[Moonlite]

Delay an expansion by a whole year? The playerbase had a full on tantrum over ultimate being delayed to 6.1, then add an extra year to that?

Then they could have added a 5.7 and rolled out job changes, ultimates, housing, races, pvp, new jobs maybe(not sure how they tie in). Let us not pretend they had no options. But I will admit this would have been a really tough decision.

[Velvet_Lunarfang]

I say if anything rent some servers until the tide of the game dies down again then return the rented servers. I am surprised they didn't think of this at all. At least the rented servers could of helped with the influx of players

[hynaku]

Still see lots of players bypassing the auto afk logout. They should add a report button and have there accounts banned. Keep seeing ones in same place afk and never move at all logout come back the next day and there still there afk.