Quote Originally Posted by Rinlina View Post
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.
I understand the frustration, BELIEVE me, I do, currently 4k+ Queue. They'd love to, and have not been working on only new servers, but new worlds in the works, but even paying way over market, they don't have the semi-conductors to do it. This is was an insane confluence of events, and if any one was different, we wouldn't be having these issues.

There's the shortage, which they can't do anything about, because the pandemic caused severe supply chain issues, meaning they can't get the parts they need for the new servers.

Then there's the sheer numbers. The current active player is literally larger than WoW at it's prime. This was cause by a few factors. One, it's a great game, so people are going to play. Second, there's the free trial that expanded that base (That meme we've been throwing around has hit the Law of Unintended Consequences), drawing in people who might have paid for the game on spec, and giving them enough playtime to get through the rougher parts of ARR. Finally, Blizzard. Through a combination of azz-hattery that we've known about for years related to gameplay, and the current Russian nesting-scandals they're going through, a huge section of the WoW base finally said, "F*** it!" and gave XIV a proper shot (added to because, again, super-generous free trial, and it's a really good game).

And just look at Yoshi in the recent Live Letters: That is a man who has been through The Wars. I'm pretty sure he vaguely *remembers* what sleep is, but it's sort of that nostalgia goggles thing at this point.