Auction house slots 7

Weird how a game like WoW had at its top 10 million subscriptions and lets you put up all the items you want on auction (for variying amounts of time) as far as i can tell. this game has no where near that many players but can barely handle 7 items at once.

I wish people would stop comparing this game to newer MMOs...

Yes, FFXI is 2 years older than WoW, Blizzard had several more years to learn from older MMO games.
Besides that WoW works on a completely different infrastructure than FFXI and has a budget that dwarves almost every other MMO budget out there.

^ Make all the excuses you want, but getting the server load response for an 11 year old game with a low subscriber base leads me to believe they haven't upgraded their servers in a long long time- maybe never.

It does somewhat seem like they have actually gone down in terms of server power during these modern days, but who knows, perhaps the fewer players being around has made it possible for them to implement all the inventory goodies we've been getting, and as such, the stress levels on the servers have remained around the same.

In the end, it's all about the Playstation 2-limitations, right?

I believe one might actually think that having the items stay in the auction house for a longer period of time could actually be lowering the stress (users querying the database less often, but I guess the amount of stress might simply shift around to another point in time?).

Meh. I don't know the numbers, but that's just something that was fed to my thought. ^^

Kick starter project to fund new FFXI servers. Who's in?

Last time Kick Starter was even mentioned, we had like a 10 page derail about the expectations of a company that already operates a functional subscription based product, that has a history of funneling funds to other projects. Was mildly entertaining/thought provoking, until it became the same posters posting the same opinions back and fourth for pages on end.

I'd support it simply because I know too many people who have too much disposable income and have no doubt it'd hit the goals needed. :3

Well I'd support it for various reasons: #1. As I don't have the real life cash flow to flush it down the toilet on additional character's to not even have them be played-with in which they just sit there all day doing nothing but bazarring and leaving your system/system's running until god for bid your system/system's that's been running 24/7 for your additional bazzaring & storage only char.'s purposes either stops functioning or becomes fried from the non-stop always on usage.

Um..back on topic, well sort of. #2. I'm always moving my 2 characters around & even when I have bazarred the items on those characters they take up room and don't sell fast enough to alleviate the spaces back open again on my inventory slots even when at times I lowered prices lower then ah and compered other's bazzaring prices.

I had other reasons but have forgot them again on what they were.
I'm pretty sure I might of started this thread created by Jedicrew some-how by posting my idea's on another forum thread in an alternative not Necessarily directly attached to the ah but is kind of hooked into the ah in totally another way method such as we are P'Cs that play a normally would be a npc character that is all ready created in the game that was allowed to expand our inventories but statements here on lag if you could call it that well might not work as well as I had hoped for my ideas of a work around thinking outside the box method and I've posted it in this forum here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...er-suggestions

How about we compare it to everquest, an older game than ffxi that lets you sell 80+ items...

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Originally Posted by Malithar

Last time Kick Starter was even mentioned, we had like a 10 page derail about the expectations of a company that already operates a functional subscription based product, that has a history of funneling funds to other projects. Was mildly entertaining/thought provoking, until it became the same posters posting the same opinions back and fourth for pages on end.

I'd support it simply because I know too many people who have too much disposable income and have no doubt it'd hit the goals needed. :3

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Don't even go there.

No kickstarters for an already-running game by a well established company that has no need to raise funds in such a manner. Ever.

Or we could get with the times and refresh your server hardware :) Since you know, it's running on a lot of years without a refresh? God knows what OS they are using. Unless this is already known, I don't venture the boards a lot. At my company, we refresh our hardware every 3 years, and this is 1000's of physical blades/discretes.