Quote Originally Posted by Vidu View Post
How are you more qualified to judge what the servers can and cant do than the actual people working with them?
Anybody who does this stuff for a living is qualified to give an opinion on the technical end of it. How do you know that the reason why they can't is technical ("we can't"), rather than managerial ("we don't want to because it'd cost money")? You don't, that's how. You're assuming it's technical when scaling servers out is dirt easy with current infrastructure. This stuff was hard in 1998. It's not hard in 2018. Making it easy is literally the business pitch behind cloud infrastructure.

I get that it might work on other games, but they were probably set up differently - I dont know to much about the technic-issues here, which actually leaves me little choice but to trust the devs. If you're saying "No, they're wrong on that!" you're basically saying they're lying - and I dont see why they should?
The obvious reason is that telling people "we don't want to invest your subscription money in providing the amount of capacity required to give you all a house" is bad PR. You think the devs are just allowed to say whatever they want without management and PR being involved? That's not how a big company works. If they say "we can't" without saying why, that's an entirely true statement on their part, because the unsaid part is "we can't because management won't give us the budget". Which is not the same as it being technically impossible.


Dont you believe the devs would like to have a better solution aswell?
If they want me to believe that, they could articulate what they're going to do about it over the long term. Silence is not confidence inspiring.

Because if you do believe that you'd also have to believe that they just dont have the ressources for that - its not only time invested in that, if I recall correctly they also had issues with not having enough staff-members to begin with a while back.
If they don't have the resources, whose fault is that? Oh, right... Square-Enix. Their own management is who allocates the resources, and we're customers of that company. If we're getting subpar service because of management decisions, we have every right to be unhappy about it. It doesn't have to be the fault of YoshiP to be the fault of the company we're paying, after all.

And if you dont believe that... what do you believe then? That the devs created this shortage of housing for their own amusment? That Yoshi-P sat in his office at 4.1 release, with streams of different housing areas on the walls, giggeling over people trying to snatch houses?
I believe in Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence."

Of course, in this case, I also think there's some Dilbert-esque PHB involved being stingy with the purse strings.

The housing system is far from ideal, granted - but the solution isnt "Just open more wards!"
Because they cant. What might work elsewhere obviously doesnt work here.
...unless ofc the devs actually do want nothing but an angry playerbase, bad press and the housing-shortage. I doubt that. And thats why I dont doubt that "just opening more wards" doesnt work with their servers.
They just did, so clearly they can. Amazing how an angry backslash in 4.1 suddenly made them able to open more wards... almost as if the problem was solvable when senior management was suitably motivated. You know what that sounds like? A budget problem, not a technical one.