Insane lag and disconnects constantly, servers need a restart

[BlossomRose]

And no, it can't wait until tonight.

People would like to play TODAY, not TOMORROW.

Please restart the servers, kick off the AFKers, and maybe that'll make the lag go away.

[Thundaja]

Yeah I just got a horrid lag spike at 5 am PST... It made my game crash.

[Garnett]

Restarting servers and kicking AFKs isn't going to fix the problem.
Just IMHO... SE never had the server capacity to start with. They can try to blame it on "unexpectedly high demand", but I think it's a joke that they only allowed for about 300,000 concurrent logins on launch when they sold many times more copies of the game. It seems to me that they are simply gauging demand before investing in infrastructure. Instead of risking idle server capacity in case demand is low, they'll just let the players take the hit by not letting excess players log in. Then they'll go about adding servers and try to make up for it by giving free-period extentions. But hey, you can't blame SE... companies are out there to make profits and if there's a loyal fanbase who's happy to take the hits for them, they're right to take advantage of it. But I wonder how much shit can the core FF fanbase cop, I myself have lost a lot of respect for Final Fantasy due to XIV 1.0 and now this fiasco.