Shutdown of all worlds for a week and fix the issue by adding more servers

[Rinlina]

I mean, why not? They gave free days anyway and this is fair to everyone. I think there was a time an mmo got maintenance for a week, forgot the name but yeah.

[Sanjoo]

They will be forced to do it whether they like it or not release is on the 7th and servers won't be able to handle it, and if someone does a DDOs its game over they will be handing out 30 days free time to millions.

[TeemoTeemosson]

They can't add more servers. All they can do is say "Please understand," while doing nothing.

[popyotheweird]

It's not that they don't have a good reason as to why they can't update their server infrastructure.

It requires physical items that literally don't exist beyond their raw components. There are select few semiconductor manufacturing plants in all of the world, and when COVID hit, auto makers cancelled their orders and a good chunk of these semiconductor manufacturers shut down (either temporarily or otherwise). Orders began to pile up from every corner due to never-changing demand with a reduced production capability, and then auto makers renewed their orders once some of the haze cleared - and then there were problems.

While expansion launches are rarely pretty, I don't think Square Enix expected a fallout of this magnitude to occur. They likely expected issues, but this is a bit of nightmare.

[popyotheweird]

Why would they release more expansion copies than the max capacity of the server? I don’t put the whole apple in my mouth when I know my mouth is too small to handle it. I take small bites.

It's a product... and they're a business. That's how business works.

It's not uncommon to sell a product to a customer not intending to use it right away or at all - Kickstarter purchases tend to be forgotten about pretty often.

Beyond that, they have stockholders and investors that can force a certain direction for the company and its projects. They can literally cut funding if this thing isn't released by this date by taking their investment back. Even if YoshiP and his crew are virtuous developers, if they allow that to happen then nasty reprimands will ripple throughout the company.

Look, I ain't happy about this launch realistically speaking. People now are working on emotion-based fallacies, and that's not a proper way to feed an argument.

[Darkstride]

So your solution to "some people can't play" is to make it so "no one can play"?

[Sanjoo]

So your solution to "some people can't play" is to make it so "no one can play"?

Its not some, its the majority, so yea you will have to suffer with the rest of us.

[TeemoTeemosson]

So your solution to "some people can't play" is to make it so "no one can play"?

Schadenfreude.

[Leviathan1usa]

So your solution to "some people can't play" is to make it so "no one can play"?

Whether you like it or not, the goal is not for "some can play" while others can't so if I can play, forget everyone else. An MMO is set up where all should be able to access so to answer your question, yes, take them down if that is what it requires to fixing the issue so all can play rather than the some that you seem to be ok with from your post.