Quote Originally Posted by lezard21 View Post
They don't have to be clairvoyant, they have to have a brain and compare the number under "server capacity" chart and the number under "units of Endwalker sold" chart. If B > A then you need to do something fast or apologize and issue refunds.
Considering we had a mass exodus from another MMO and a population explosion mere months before the expansion launch, and Semiconductors are on a 6-12 month waitlist right now, it'd be genuinely impossible to do anything other than apologize and try to weather the storm with what you have in their shoes

considering the current wait times for hardware they'd have needed to know about this population explosion a year+ ago which just isn't really feasible to think about, that doesn't excuse that things are shaky right now but you work with what you've got and they're stretching what they have as thin as possible to get as many people in as they can with their current hardware and netcode, and i'll say as someone who's gotten to play, when you get in, it's very stable, more stable than any other mmo i've ever played at launch, it's pretty clear to me they've picked their comfortable capacity that they get as many people in for the best experience possible without being detrimental to the overall gameplay experience of those inside