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[Skivvy]

Enough of this "Won't someone please think of the Servers!" nonsense. This 2018 and we aren't using dial-up!

Sadly, SE hasn't received that memo yet.

I could be wrong, but judging by your join date, it looks like you may be fairly new to the game. Over the last several years, it's become almost laughable how many times they have come back saying they cannot implement something due to server stress/load/data/limitations/etc.

[Hyperia]

Sadly, SE hasn't received that memo yet.

I could be wrong, but judging by your join date, it looks like you may be fairly new to the game. Over the last several years, it's become almost laughable how many times they have come back saying they cannot implement something due to server stress/load/data/limitations/etc.

From what I understand, in order to get FFXIV 2.0 out in time, they had to repurpose a lot of the FFXIV 1.0 code and as a result, its a mess of spaghetti code behind the scenes.

Yes, if they were creating modern up to date code from the start, they could probably have over 1,000 customizations without worrying about overloading the data transfer systems from instance server to zone servers but they do not have the luxury. They are stuck with what they have and are trying to clean it up as best they can. its similar to trying to perform an oil change on a car driving down the highway without locking the engine.

In order to replace all of the code with proper cleaned up code, it would be a monumental effort requiring a massive amount of development time. My guess is that they would essentially have to recreate the entire game to clean it up properly. This isn't a missed expansion but probably two to three, were talking 5 to 6 years. You don't just replace the infrastructure on the back end, you have to redo everything from server coding to graphic assets and more to allow for what everybody wants.

Trust me, I want loads of options, vastly improved graphics but to get there, were talking essentially a new game like FFXIV-2. Can they do it? Sure, but they need the financial and developmental resources that are being spent on KH3, XIV DLC and VII teams to do it. They will make incremental optimizations when they can but that's the best pace they can manage with such a difficult code base.

Yoshi saved the game back in 2.0 but at the cost of a difficult future, he knew that going into this, I'm sure he has a way out.

[Genz]

From what I understand, in order to get FFXIV 2.0 out in time, they had to repurpose a lot of the FFXIV 1.0 code and as a result, its a mess of spaghetti code behind the scenes.

No

...or at least that's what I'd like to say, but their communication is so shitty that they let this kind of "fake news" slides without a care in the world ; maybe it's right in the end.

But there is no reason to think they re-used the architecture of 1.0. 2.x is obviously vastly superior on a ton of technical aspects, even if there are still some, maybe inevitable, limitations.

Also, there seems to be a confusion between code and assets, and some may think code was re-used since assets were re-used, but of course it's separated (especially on the server-side, which doesn't care about assets)