Look at the state of the forums.

[Moonlite]

Yes, they had YEARS to predict a pandemic, cryptocurrency miners buying up all the hardware and a recently huge influx of players from another MMO. Judging from you dismissal of covid, though, facts probably don't mean much to you in the first place.

This argument is always garbage. Because this doesn't take into account the zero upgrade that should have been planned precovid. Now would 1 or 2 worlds in EU and NA make a big difference, not at all. The point is SE planned either zero growth for the game or was comfortable counting their money till servers started to melt and playing experience suffered. Which is it? You guys crying about other factors seem to ignore ones staring you in the face. And only a moron would have thought OCE was going to make any difference for EU. In fact it is more likely to benefit the region least in need JPN.