FFXIV ARR is 3 this year, Server upgrades?

[Waliel]

you could put off buying a new PC and within as little as 6 months the one you were looking at will be completely outclassed by something else at the same price.

I'd just like to point out that this has never been true. I'd also say that three years is pretty fresh for game servers. They're not even at the end of their maintenance contracts most likely.

With regard to gaming PCs, gamers might not upgrade their entire PC every other year, but I bet the switch their GPUs more often than their whole rig, given the influence the GPU has on performance.

Every three years maybe for me. ヽ（´ー｀）┌

It's not a totally foreign thing for MMOs to beef up their servers if required WoW has done it as have others if I'm not mistaken.

I think it took WoW around 6-7 years to upgrade their first servers and hardware itself might have been slightly older than that, if I'm remembering my timelines right. They're still running their stuff on the 2010 bought servers.

In those 7 years, how many times did WoW developers say they can't add something because of server limitations? That's why people feel there is a need to upgrade because the ffxiv team keeps saying they can't do stuff because of server limitations.

I don't think they actually used that as an excuse even once.