Stop blaming Yoshi-Pi its not his fault that SquareEnix didn't provide extra servers

[mizukage]

It;s SE fault for being stingy and not supplying more servers

[Aegis]

Actually, it does fall under his remit. Executive Producer is responsible for every aspect of a game's implementation. The buck stops with him for the entire project. He does order and arrange the back-end systems. Unless you think someone on the board of directors is overseeing the setting up of a data centre?

[Rex]

Give it a rest already....................

The beta forums never disappeared.

[xopher]

It;s SE fault for being stingy and not supplying more servers

Source please.

[JesseCuster]

Source please.

The source is the 1017 error you dunce.

[xopher]

The error number is not a signature on a purchase order. It does not say who is responsible for what. Please calm down. There is no need to be upset.

[Arixtotle]

Actually, it does fall under his remit. Executive Producer is responsible for every aspect of a game's implementation. The buck stops with him for the entire project. He does order and arrange the back-end systems. Unless you think someone on the board of directors is overseeing the setting up of a data centre?

Except that he still has a boss who he answers to and he still has to get a budget approved by the higher ups. I highly, highly doubt they gave him a blank check and no oversight.

[Roric]

Regardless of who it is, this whole debacle is a stroke of poor management. Someone at the top has decided to save money by not adding new servers, has seemed to have ordered the community reps not to respond to any complaints about the traffic (the reps haven't said a damn thing about any of this), and are continuing to ignore the problem until the congestion dies down on its own.

I don't know who it is or what they're thinking, but this has to stop.

[Welsper59]

I like how people continue to think there's infinite funds for everything a company chooses to do. As though each transaction made isn't being tracked and questioned. As though there's no accounting management involved. As though someone that controls the release of the funds, can't just say "no" to any request. As though it doesn't take TIME to get permissions for ad-hoc approvals to get things rolling.

Work a bit with financials for multi-million/billion dollar companies/businesses/departments and you might see just how ignorant the general public is. There's a little thing called "audits" that tend to dictate or navigate expenditures.

[xopher]

Assuming they have 500k subscribers, they're going to make well over 5 million dollars on the first months subscriptions alone. Some people have even already purchased three months game time.

Knowing that, and knowing that Square is not sitting on empty coffers, they could have afforded to go overboard with servers in the beginning.

In any IT based rollout, you always over-compensate then scale down. Always.