Quote Originally Posted by Vav2021 View Post
I haven't heard much about anything other than the chip shortage.
Considering the amount of spam about it on the forum, not surprising.

The actual problem is that server upgrades were delayed and reactionary expansion was not possible due to the shortage. In addition we have probably the largest surge in player count ever, something like triple the amount of active users expected. The servers were not on track to deal with this and the lack of capability to react has made it worse.

Basically the population way outstripped anyones possible forecast for usage right when it suffered delays to all the planned upgrades.