Quote Originally Posted by RyuDragnier View Post
1. They need a specific chip type to increase the amount of servers.
2. Said chip type is currently hard to find and we have a global shortage of, and have had, for over a year now.
3. All the WoW players came to FFXIV 6 months ago, increasing the active playerbase to a size NOBODY could have predicted.
4. Due to all of the above, they did everything within their power to take care of things while trying to avoid things getting worse.
These all sound like issues of a systemic failure that were years in the making compounded by either an unwillingness to invest or strategize. They had record profits in April of 2021, that was 8 months ago and the population continued to grow MoM. That's just basic trending and forecasting. Companies need to be able to pivot to deal with these types of things but SE's complacent approach to their servers have showed quite the failure. If they "did everything within their power to take care of things"...what exactly did they do?