Quote Originally Posted by BillyKaplan View Post
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I think there are unique challenges in making an mmo with scope this large which many people do not appreciate. Large amount of complex processes, large character data even by this genre standards, server stress from hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users and gameplay experience to be considered where even a small amount of delay on interactions could be considered too disruptive. Without being an mmo developer on a game with millions of accounts it's hard to say how horrible they are at what they do. I enjoy the game and the efforts of the dev team and don't personally see the need to rebuild systems from the ground up... which of course would be very costly for a project of this scale. Dramatic rebuilds of the game to rise above current limitations would also alter the minimum spec and impact players on low-end systems like laptops who may be happy with things the way they are now. Parity with console builds is also something to consider.