Feedback: Delete old content that no one does anymore to make room for new content

[Venandi]

How people went at the OP is really eye opening when these same people criticize the XIV reddit. At least moderation of threads occurs on reddit on a more regular nature.

The forums are full of know-it-alls who spend their entire day reading a dictionary just to own someone who spends their time learning common sense and working. Just look at the number of know-it-alls who had to keep debating about fall in the other thread.

Deleting old content obviously gives them more memory to make new content. This is basic common sense and basic computer science but the people in this forums will come up with all sorts of dictionary definition to tell you this is not how memory works or something probably because they're looking at the wrong definition of "memory", which is about human memory. But these people just want to win a debate more than they want to learn. So you have them stalking and harassing and spamming me with definitions from the dictionary.

[Venandi]

Contrary to what OP said deleting content will make devs have even less time. You don't need to QA old content, and I really doubt SE even looks at it, but if you remove anything you absolutely need to make sure nothing references it and that there's no crashes or other undefined behavior because of deletion of some content. That is some real work and if any crashes happen because of it... well I wouldn't want to be the guy debugging it and I feel sorry for the guy who would have to.
Funfact: Nothing has ever been deleted from the game files. Even the old Tomestones are still there even though the oldest ones were phased out soon a decade ago. They are inaccessible but not removed.

Also this argument



The biggest memory hogger in anything is the graphics and the server side doesn't have them because why would it need them. It likely just has some binaries and scripts and the size of them is probably very minimal if you look at what's taking space. If you are concerned about memory point your finger at player data and I'm sure there's not much you can do to the size of that.

Guildhests is just one example. Think of all the old dungeons that no one bothers with anymore like Pharos Sirius which has a whole zone about it. When is the last time you did it? Might as well delete it, it's probably taking up like 500 MB of space.

[Venandi]

I would be hesitant to say "most players are using the forums"

the number is often less than 50% ever visit them since actual help is not very prevalent

Every time you file a complaint on Support Desk you literally need to go on the forums to provide feedback. You're telling me most people never followed up on their complaints? I doubt it.

[TheMightyMollusk]

The forums are full of know-it-alls who spend their entire day reading a dictionary just to own someone who spends their time learning common sense and working. Just look at the number of know-it-alls who had to keep debating about fall in the other thread.

Yeah, you'd think by now they'd just give up and let you be wrong.

[Krotoan]

Yeah, you'd think by now they'd just give up and let you be wrong.

The most hilarious part of this.. is the continual arguments against such nonsensical and obvious baiting are exactly what this person is striving for.


They're winning. Unequivocally.

[TheMightyMollusk]

The most hilarious part of this.. is the continual arguments against such nonsensical and obvious baiting are exactly what this person is striving for.


They're winning. Unequivocally.

The secret to keeping your sanity on the internet is to not argue with people who can't debate in good faith. Just walk away and let them believe what they want. You could tell me that two plus two is five, and I'll just smile and go back to my own business.

[Shibi]

How so? I haven't played that one in a decade and my choices for second MMO were it and this.

Are you referring to the old Isle of Refuge and class structure?

Would have to be Isle of Refuge - which did come back as a 11th year veteran/cash shop house. Outside of Freeport's and a bit of other remodelling, I can't think of any other content that was removed.

(considers "sadly Qho Augren wasn't deleted" and chuckles)

[Venandi]

Yeah, you'd think by now they'd just give up and let you be wrong.

Welp, guess I have to block yet another person. -_-

You've gone WAY too far, and its bullying at this point. I ask you to please stop. This post is about how SE can delete old content for more development time. Not about how you feel about me for whatever personal reason.

[TaleraRistain]

Would have to be Isle of Refuge - which did come back as a 11th year veteran/cash shop house. Outside of Freeport's and a bit of other remodelling, I can't think of any other content that was removed.

(considers "sadly Qho Augren wasn't deleted" and chuckles)

They completely redid the Isle of Refuge (well Queen's Colony and Outpost of the Overlord) to stack up a bit better with the other newbie zones (though ones like TD are still much better). I poke around the game still and ran a baby warlock through recently.

I'm thinking, yeah, they must mean the old sub-class structure and such. That one is a shame, because the class quests were pretty fun. They did also restrict some of the old racial areas in the cities by having them invaded by void monsters, like you can't go to Baubbleshire anymore.

[Bright-Flower]

Okay I was pretty sure the OP was trolling in the November thread, but this clinches it.