The login issues and you: Why most posts here are uninformed and pointless

[BlueStar62]

First of all SE could not have accurate numbers for this launch. That's near impossible. Plus this is already WAY more popular then FFXI or FFXIV 1.0 ever was.

So you are trying to tell me that it's *near impossible* to take server data for what *might* have been a less popular MMO and scale the requirements upward? Even new MMO companies can do this.

Servers take time to set up and prepare. If I set my servers up last month for EXPECTED sales then something changes and my sales are higher I can't get the new servers running in 10 minutes. Shit takes time.

Yea if I was a completely incompetent Sales Manager working for a completely incompetent MMO company, then maybe I would let a month's worth of sales data suddenly land in my face, at which point I would do what SE has done, and say, "maybe we should upgrade our servers now". All stupidity aside, you can see sales data in real time, believe it or not. So there is no reason why they shouldn't have been increasing server capacity every step of the way.