Quote Originally Posted by elvenmad View Post
They are not Squares servers they lease them, and about server replacements?parts etc, there is no issues, I work for a host/server company in Germany, we have no issues parts to build new hardware are available but recently it's had a huge price increase for no reason, (same issue with Graphics card's in the PC industry) you can get any part you want but you will be paying premium costs.
Did not say anything about "milking player's", if you read properly the server Company's lease costs have increased, I know our's have, Square can more than likely lease more server capacity but choose themselves not too, nothing top do with "players", unless it's all because of there own servers in Japan, the ones they actually own, but then how come there is no issues on Japanese region game servers ?

Square is a business, they are there and do what they do to make money first and foremost, they are going to lease the cheapest available outside resources that will do the job they need, its basic business and "you get what you pay for" all gaming publishers do the very same thing, quite clearly they are preferring money over quality of product, they are even still actively advertising Endwalker and selling it even though many still can not even play it, they are literally selling a service they can not satisfactorily provide
I've worked at server hosting, website hosting and other IT fields. You said it yourself, you can get the equipment at inflated costs! that is not square's problem, they have to run a company, and everything else but you want them to pay inflated prices for what? a month? for a year? and when should those be put into play? Also where is your information that the servers are rented? and that all of them are? You still want them to get service from AWS? or Azure? do you know if the software will run on there? I'd love to see your proof of all of this. Show me Square's bottom line! Show me that Square can make the triple or quadruple cost effective. Are you willing to see the next expansion to be 120 for the BASE expansion? how about 30-60 a month for subscription? You are a person that has knowledge yes, but not all of it, in I don't either.

You want to know what? I have been playing End walker today for 5 hours. that's why i didn't reply till now, I had no error code and only 16 people ahead of me in queue. I played and STREAMED the game yesterday! I would counter that you are being sensationalist about the fact that they can't satisfactorily provide. Servers are STABLE. Please show me that your singular access is guaranteed by any Terms of Service or End Game User License.

Now you want to talk about why they advertise and sell it even now? because endwalker is but a title that gives you access to all expansions, and you MUST already have the title Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn to even play it. so if you paid 40 bucks for end walker or 60 bucks (does not include the physical collector's edititon they sold) you didn't get a new license for FF14, you got a key to expand your license. How many accounts have there been since 2010 that have not been inactivated by the user or SE? I'll let you guess but they had more than the 17000 login cap per server long before Shadow Bringer's even came out, which is long before endwalker and the migration that happened earlier this year. that you keep saying they are selling more than they can do, when should they stop? quite possibly before a realm reborn perhaps heavensward because the accounts they already had would out strip their ability to log in at any one single time. that would mean no new account, that would mean no new players, which means no new expansions because then the game would be on life support. EVERY MMO experiences a huge surge in active population when new content drops and even more when expansions come in. the excess queue is getting less and less as people finish the new content and fade away, soon it'll be back to what it was before endwalker. IT will take time. but in all of this do you see any cries that the servers are unstable? on dec 3rd yes there were some instabilities and that's been addressed. the rest will be as well. so what if they roll out a new world server and move people to it, what happens when the people that won't stay go away leaving 2-3 worlds at huge deficits of players, what do they do with the new equipment? what about the players? Till you know what information they have you are a person with an opinion that I have only pointed out and asked questions of you for thought. keep thinking this way but if you're this mad now why not take a break, shut down automatic billing for time till you feel the situation is rectified. that will make it your choice, and you won't have to purchase the expansion again because you have it applied to your account and when or if you decide to come back.

I just noticed that you brought a question to my attention. how come there is no issues on japanese region game servers? I don't know I haven't seen any information and I can't read japanese so I don't know but the servers there deal with the content of asia and australia. some of the pacific/oceanic area play on these servers or on the NA servers. but one possibility is that the japanese people themselves don't get so upset if they can't play exactly when they want to but do deal with it and work around it. However it seems you're blaming them for putting out a game that has become so popular they have to reevaluate if there is reason to build a new world server, new data centers in areas they were not, these decisions are not done in a day, a week or even a month it takes time. the other reason is perhaps the fact there are already enough to handle the load looking right now at 11am eastern you would see roughly 1/2 the world servers are open for new character generation just like it is on NA servers. this of course changes throughout the day depending on how many are on the game at that time. I really suggest taking a step back and relaxing.