What I don't understand is why the NA/EU servers (i.e. players) are getting hosed with all of these problems, when it appears that the Japanese players aren't having these issues. If I'm incorrect, please correct me; but whenever I search to see which servers are up, it always appears that the JP servers are going strong and the NA/EU servers are down for some kind of maintenance.

So if I am not incorrect in my assumptions/findings, then why are the Japanese players getting catered to and the NA/EU players getting dumped on? Don't we make up a large majority of the overall players for this game? If so, why do the Japanese have an equal amount of servers devoted solely to JP players as the NA/EU players have (which are split amongst the two groups.)

All I have to say is "Equity." Where is it with Square-Enix?