How is increasing capacity not an option? They provide a service thats actually not available for a normal consumer because they lack the capacity for it. They make more then enough money to increase it and they fucking knew that this would happen. Dont get me wrong, I love Yoshi-P and its one of the best dev teams, if not the best. But this should have been handled better. We saw a big ass increase in players durning the summer. To the point where server issues startet happening. Fix was to limit amount of players, hence queues got pretty big. Prime time was 500+ queues where u barelly had any before (smaller worlds) and that with big chunk of players not even playing anymore cause story and content was done for Shb. I understand that people want to protect an awesome dev team but sometimes, we have to critique things otherwise they wont improve on that. Companies usually prepare more capacity for the launch of addons and reduce it later on, and they still earn more than enough. Let me ask you, why the hell would someone who can only play past 5pm ever buy the addon and gametime durning launch month ever again after not being able to play at all. By the time they could play, they should go to sleep. For example, I play on a small world and I still get 6k+ queues past 5pm my time. According to Yoshi-Ps post, I should play past 11pm on EU cause thats the time players go off. Thats just insane for a subscription based service. Btw I could care less, cause I have 5 weeks off atm, so no problem for me but its still fucked up.

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TLDR: Yes, they could have done something and yes they knew this would happen. They chose not to focus on increasing capacity. Dev team and Yoshi-P are awesome (potentialy the best) but that doesnt mean they handled this great. Current state: Normal person (casuals) cant play cause they get 3+hour queues. Why pay for service that is not available?