Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
Not only that but based on the numbers JP kept, there's 14-18kish people who stuck with XIV as of november, so SE in all reality could have gotten every active person in if they had enough alpha servers running lol, if the current alpha number tally is correct that is.
While they could have, it does not make sense to do so. Correcting errors on a single server and transferring more complete/stable data to multiple servers is a better use of time and resources than running multiple servers to limited developers and being swamped with duplicate issues. Servers are a massive power draw (read: expensive), that in itself is reason to correct as many issues as possible on a single source before opening more.

That would be like neglecting to test the tensile strength of steel before building 10 bridges with it and just hoping it holds the hundreds of thousands of pounds of cars and people on the grand opening. And then if one bridge collapses, start jerry rigging the other 9 to keep them up.