You hear about Intel meltdown?

[i3oi3o]

Don't forget that XIV performance also relies on server performance. "Server limitations" is a known phrase for us.

I think FF14's server is designed to scale.

Very likely, they choose available server instance which don't have much load and spawn a process to run.
Imaging this process as dungeon instance, each world map etc.

Not likely that a process will consume a lot of CPU except one scenario, 100 people enter the same map to hunt Rank S which very likely causes the process to consume CPU to almost full.

[aesteval]

I think FF14's server is designed to scale.

Very likely, they choose available server instance which don't have much load and spawn a process to run.
Imaging this process as dungeon instance, each world map etc.

Not likely that a process will consume a lot of CPU except one scenario, 100 people enter the same map to hunt Rank S which very likely causes the process to consume CPU to almost full.

I'm actually thinking about everything to do with inventory and items in XIV's case. We're getting a saddlebag and not more inventory slots for a reason. However it's been designed would be with a certain margin of performance expectations in mind and if the servers do take a performance hit because of this it could be a really nasty goal post shift. A lot of speculation, but concerns (we don't know what hardware the servers are even running or what risk there may be to leave them unpatched.)