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

[JTWrenn]

It seems you aren't the one thinking of this as a business decision. It's a bad idea to invest heavily in resources that will go mainly unused yet cost a lot to maintain and run. Launch surge doesn't last. Adding enough capacity to handle it entirely is a very bad decision. If you open a new restaurant in a small town that restaurant is going to be VERY popular for maybe a month while everyone tries out the new thing, but if they keep ordering enough food to cover that level of business for YEARS, that will be a huge waste of money.




I bet you would run the BESTSESTSTEST MMO ever right? You would just .. magically have servers on standby, configured and running for the possibility that your player base could double or triple at ANY TIME even in a supply shortage and travel restriction period.. and no Board of Execs would ever fire you for burning hundreds of thousands of dollars on idle resources.


The bestest.


Yeh, it's for cost reasons. But it's not unreasonable to ask customers to deal with it for a short period so that a game can remain profitable for the company and as such will remain supported and available for the players.

This response is defensive in a really weird way.

[ZetsubouX]

Why don't you people simply understand that it is impossible to get new adequate servers right now?

Do you not get that it's IMPOSSIBLE?

The servers in question are not 3 graphic cards hooked together in someone's garage, guys.

These are absolutely massive dedicated servers that require thousands upon thousands of semiconductor chips that are currently in world wide shortage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E..._chip_shortage

Like, just quickly searching google gives you an actual wikipedia page on the problem at hand.

Instead of constantly bashing on Square Enix and annoying your fellow players by making literally hundreds of threads on the same issue, how about you spend your time reading A SINGLE article or wikipedia page on the subject so you can at least somewhat educate yourself before you go off on a rant like a child.

This is coming from someone with 0 experience in IT, 0 knowledge of the shortage before YoshiP made a post about it (or wherever I saw the announcement that there would be issues and that this was the main reason).

As soon as I read that post, I did a 5 min research on the issue and now I understand it.
Imagine that.