Quote Originally Posted by GeminiReed View Post
If you think that's horrifiying then I hope you haven't tripped across the rumors that character data is stored as a flat file in a filesystem instead of something sane like an RDBMS.
Nah I'm not in IT, I just had a bad run-in with SQL when localizing software.

But I'd find it believable if our character data were stored just individual .txt files per account, given how hard the devs insist some improvements are.