Originally Posted by
Delsus
When there was the post about being unable to give us bigger bags due to the size of HDDs, meant that it would require too many constant upgrades I would expect, think about it, lets say for the sake of argument all characters currently on all servers need 2TBs of serverside data, then come ps3 release the population increases 5 times, that would need 10TBs, then every year for 3 years the population doubles they would need 20TBs, then 40TBs, then 80TBs.
This sort of upgrade can cost a company alot of money, and even more if they increase the amount of items they need to store, of course it would help if they brought more information client side, im sure alot of the character data on the servers can be brought to the client.