Quote Originally Posted by VisperCon View Post
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?
8 months ago was in peak "there are no chips" season. They would have had to forecast this years ago, which means forecasting WoW falling to pieces and almost everyone and their mother jumping ship overnight. No one forecasts growth like that when its outside norms. Also COVID happened, which caused more people to have time at home, increasing counts of logged in players, and at that point, it was too late to fix things.