Is adding more worlds going to actually fix this problem?

[Farore]

... and has had those 9 years to fine-tune their hardware. This is to be expected.

I'll tell you what. If I hired some guys to build servers to accommodate all the people I need, and I hand them the figures that say we need oh, say 500k slots available, and they give me some cheap, poorly-done servers that house 125k, I'd fire them! There's no excuse to cheap out when you have so many people ready and eager to play, and pay! You do your job, and you do it right, or I won't put up with you. This isn't a Welfare job, you earn your right to stay (at least in my mind it's not).

My point is, WoW is running on nine year old code, nine year old hardware (probably not, but anyway), and they do just fine. At their launch, they had space for everyone, because they built their servers accordingly. They didn't work right, sure, but they were still big enough for everyone who wanted to play. Now, this game is running off of brand new hardware, was totally rebuilt from the ground up code-wise, and you're telling me they can't do something as simple as increase server capacity? That tells me that they're trying to go through this while spending as little money as possible - and losing customers in the process.

I just don't see much of a justified reason as to why Square did what they did, and why they take a three day weekend off, rather than pay the IT crew overtime to get the job done when it needs to be done. It just doesn't make me feel comfortable about the future business decisions regarding this game. I've loved Final Fantasy since the first one, I just hope it doesn't end here.