Don't Fall For It

[RareItems]

Think the real problem is there's only so many ppl the servers can hold and some ppl not wanting to wait 2 hours on queue would rather use auto clickers to stop being afk kicked xD.

[Cadmar]

Gullible isn't just a new breed of cow.

Why people go out of their way to defend a company that, when it comes down to it, just wants your money is beyond me. This blind faith that whatever SE does is full of glorious purpose is absurd. If this were EA or Activision there would be a formal inquest.

[Sotaris]

Gullible isn't just a new breed of cow.

Why people go out of their way to defend a company that, when it comes down to it, just wants your money is beyond me.

I don't think people are defending SE per se, just that some are more realistic about the situation and been around for awhile to know how a expansion launch goes down. I mean your reg date here says 2013 so you ought to see a few unless you been unsubbed the past 8 years.

Also a big majority of these posts about SE didn't do anything or whatever are spuring misinformation and/or are plain misinformed.

Maybe they should partner with AWS or Azure or something...

I believe I read somewhere that they have considered the cloud but with their infrastructure it wasn't viable. Don't quote me though.

[JanVanding]

I find blaming the launch issues on semiconductor shortage and COVID insulting at best.

This exp has been planned since well before the world fell apart. Once hardware started becoming a problem SE had more than enough time to acquire it and get it up and running before this launch.

They are using it as an excuse and nothing more. My guess is that there was a financial decision made not to add servers dues to cost. *which, yes, may be due to current world issues* And this is fine. I accept the reality of that business decision... What I struggle to accept is twisting it into this "oh poor us, we can't find hardware"

The auto industry is suffering because of the sheer volume of chips they need. SE only required a fraction of that to add servers.

There's nothing that can be done about it. It is what it is and I accept that. It just really upsets me that we are being fed, what I believe, to be a false narrative as an explanation.

Thank you for listening to my rambling TED Talk as I wait in queue.

Alright bro, if they only need a few, why don't you tell them where they acquire them quickly?

Given....SE HQ is right near Hitatchi and a server farm needs THOUSANDS of semiconductor chips not a handful.

Look, I'm not happy either about the queue issue, but this is not my first rodeo with launch/expac launch issues, it won't be my last.

If you don't want to deal with the stress of it, don't. Take time away until things have smoothed over and come back later, nobody is forcing you to sprint through the content.

[Cadmar]

There is a ZERO percent chance that any hardware needed for new servers was not available.

This was a financial decision based on what those parts may have cost due to shortages. Which is, again, fine. I'm just asking them to be honest about it.

[Siniztor]

SE knew when SHB came out they didn't have good enough login servers If you remember the Q's and shutting off other world visiting.

[Velnora]

Great community by the way.

[JanVanding]

There is a ZERO percent chance that any hardware needed for new servers was not available.

This was a financial decision based on what those parts may have cost due to shortages. Which is, again, fine. I'm just asking them to be honest about it.

You do know how large a server farm is right? It's not your local bitcoin miners few janky taped together machines.

It's the size of an actual distribution warehouse filled to the brim with server racks. If you've never seen inside a warehouse, they're pretty big.

A server farm doesn't cost a few grand either, price tag starts at around $20 million dollars and that's just for a basic unix farm. I imagine they need something a little bigger than that.

[Catwho]

I work in IT. It's not a lie. High end data center servers currently have a wait list of six months to a year.

[MadMadMorrigan]

It's not a lie or an excuse. The refugee crisis from the Actiblizzard implosion occurred well after the chip shortage began and there's just not enough chips to go around even for an emergency order. It's a storm of multiple layers all added together to make a miserable mess, and it's not even remotely Square-Enix's fault. I've been 2002'd all day today but all that can be done is to persevere and try to match your own schedule to the times that congestion is reduced.