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[Hasrat]

FFXIV has been growing for YEARS. The spike in population in 2021 is irrelevant in the face of that fact. Market analysts would have seen the rate at which the population was growing and would have told SE that they need to deal with the problem, and they would have said that long before "muh chip shortage" and covid and Blizz being outted as the trash company they are. All of you that keep harping on about "muh population spike" just ignore reality and the fact that the population of FFXIV was already seeing a massive increase in its rate of growth long before your precious spike. And the problems with servers go back years, not months.

How are there still people pulling this nonsense? You're acting like they've done nothing at all since 2.0 relaunch to improve capacity.

Splitting NA and EU data centers, resulting in significant login capacity increase.
Adding four new servers to EU, significantly increasing active player cap.
And preparing to implement OCE data center, an unprecedented move to improve playability for an entire region of players, as well as significantly lightening the burden in other regions by spreading the load.

The last one is important because the planning and beginning stages for that happened way back last year, not so long after 5.0 launch. Which means they knew growth would require new hardware back then and began the process to address it with what they predicted would be sufficient. That process was expected to be completed by 6.0 launch. And it ran into delays.
The fact that they began this process so long ago should give you a pretty big hint where they might be on adding any more hardware anywhere else to deal with a population growth that began to exceed predictions and expectations. If OCE was predicted to alleviate congestion growing by old model expectations, nothing they could or would want to do to adjust to current models would've even been operational before 6.1 at best.

In short, the player population has been growing for years. And the infrastructure and hardware has also been growing at pace. But there's nothing they can do fast enough to react to that population growth massively accelerating. They're already hit with delays on one major project, any other upgrades or acquisitions will necessarily have to happen after that project is complete.

[CazzT]

How are there still people pulling this nonsense? You're acting like they've done nothing at all since 2.0 relaunch to improve capacity.

Nice gaslighting. Nothing in anything I've said even remotely says, nor implies, any such nonsense. And since this is how you're going to start reply to me, there's no point in bothering with the rest of your drivel since it will all be based on a bad faith argument.