Quote Originally Posted by Hyrist View Post
If you think the mistake began with the Personal Housing system, you're sorely mistaken.

The problem is STARTING with a public instancing system on an infrastructure that could not support four times as many players as they initially anticipated. Everything else has been bandaids since then.

They should have started with the apartment system, then moved onto FC and Private housing, but Yoshida was married to a promise that was made back in 1.xx - and instead of abandoning it, he developed himself into a corner he's not getting out of for another three years.
Its always easy to "talk afterwards" and make comments on something after its been released :P