You know that Cryptic can short term lease server equipment...right? It doesn't have to be a long term investment on their part to bring infrastructure up to handle increased demand. Then when things level out they can look at long term solutions based on the new demand. The argument that "They shouldn't waste money…
Word is already starting to spread around the interwebs about the bad launch of this xpac. Its a shame. Could have been a great way to breathe new blood into the game. All this will do is help propagate the feelings from early in STO's life and the bad press and reviews it got to any potential returning or new players.
The queue is simply because of two reasons, both dealing with infrastructure on Cryptics end. 1. They were not prepared and or didnt plan properly for server load. 2. They knew it would be rough going and understood expected server load and knew the current configuration would not be able to handle the workload but didnt…