Quote Originally Posted by syntaxlies View Post
its to limit the number of people that do it, se doesn't want to have to save the data from 1,000,000 extra characters.
that fact that FF14 isn't ever likely to attain that sort of number aside, it's not like character data is a hard thing to save. If CCP, a much smaller company than SE can save every single character's data on every account that's ever created in EVE in the 8 1/2+ years of the game's history so far (which is actually likely far above just 1 million), along with FAR more items in their inventory space (which is unlimited, I myself have thousands, if not tens of thousands of different item stacks across my characters), then I don't see how SE can pull a too-much-stuff-to-save card unless they're cheap beyond a fault and/or utterly incompetent on how to create/manage a database.