Quote Originally Posted by iiTzSeb View Post
No no, the playerbase 100% pretends like SE can't afford to buy more server hardware. Happens a LOT. There's even people on these forums pretending like there's no housing problems:



A lot more of the XIV playerbase is in rampant denial than you'd think LMFAO
The problem is that budget decisions aren't necessarily up to each studio. Even if Square Enix is a multi-billion dollar company, they have multiple projects they are distributing money to and each of the project leaders has to justify why they want money and how it's going to create profit for SE. Even if Yoshi-P requests another couple million for housing servers, the people who work in Finance (who don't work on FFXIV) will ask "what's the rate of return for this spend?" And the answer is "nothing" so the accountants will say "then you can't have it."