How about some server hardware updating?

[Redima]

This is a sad experience. I work all day to come home, try and relax to pay for a game I cannot log into at all. I see everyone complaining, and they have a right too!
What was the point of pre-order early access?
also interesting how the main servers with problems are the NA/EU ones.

[JarinArenos]

They've been trying to buy server hardware for a year. There's a global pandemic causing a semiconductor shortage.

[TylerDurden]

They've been trying to buy server hardware for a year. There's a global pandemic causing a semiconductor shortage.

This is a lie. I am an IT engineer/admin for a living and this isn't true. You can order server hardware fairly easily.

They could also use Amazon or Azure as hosts for temporary relief.

[TeemoTeemosson]

This is a sad experience. I work all day to come home, try and relax to pay for a game I cannot log into at all. I see everyone complaining, and they have a right too!
What was the point of pre-order early access?
also interesting how the main servers with problems are the NA/EU ones.

From what I've heard, JP servers are doing just fine.

[klykodesh]

This is a lie. I am an IT engineer/admin for a living and this isn't true. You can order server hardware fairly easily.

They could also use Amazon or Azure as hosts for temporary relief.

I'm a software engineer and you could do this if your applications were designed for the cloud. If they weren't it's not as simple as just picking up your code and moving it to Azure or AWS.

[Sacrilegion]

Because JP has more capacity than they could possibly fill. 80% of their space is unused

[Draylen]

Because JP has more capacity than they could possibly fill. 80% of their space is unused

no exode from wow on the jp servers too

[Just_Jak]

This is a lie. I am an IT engineer/admin for a living and this isn't true. You can order server hardware fairly easily.

They could also use Amazon or Azure as hosts for temporary relief.

Yes, I'm sure they'd much rather upset thousands/millions of players and lose millions of dollars, while lying to us all year - oh wait, no, you're wrong. There is a massive shortage affecting most industries. I doubt they'd shoot themselves in the foot on purpose by just not buying servers - they literally stated that they even tried to buy some at WELL above market price, and still couldn't get them. It's fine to be upset about all this, but inform yourself first, or you risk making yourself look a fool. We all knew months ahead of time about congestion, but the log-in errors are the real slap in the face.

[Sacrilegion]

Okay boot licker

[Vandrak]

If there's a chip shortage, and they "tried" to get servers, but they couldn't, then how will this get better? After enough people leave the game and the current servers can handle who is left?