Heres the Issue.

[Tomte]

Khalus I work with server structures all the time especially when the game information resides on the P/C or PS3 owners system, there side is pretty much running an SQL server and server racks to maintain the connection required to the server clustering ie instance server and Realms. All you have to do is increase server capacity is add more system racks yes they are very expensive.. but 1million preorders should of given them enough to expand to what they needed, not give SE top exec a bonus for the re-release of the game.

On a side Note: PS3 integration on this MMO probly put the biggest strain on the system due to Mixing Consule and P/C users... 230,000 may of been a good number to start with just PC users.

[Khalus]

but 1million preorders should of given them enough to expand to what they needed, not give SE top exec a bonus for the re-release of the game.

They had almost 1mil pre-orders for 1.0 too. Their caution was fully warranted. And Japanese executive are not greedy like US/UK execs are.{not all of them are} They have been prone{look it up if you want} to take substantial pay cuts due to failures and/or to keep their staff employed instead of layoffs.