Quote Originally Posted by Ferth View Post
But they do crash, they require maintenance and they require dedicated servers to run. It doesn't matter that their servers don't directly affect other servers. That they need servers at all is the problem.
The only thing that's being suggested is one of the interface we use. Whether it's 3d modeled NPCs, or some board we go to with the same data presented differently won't change the fact that those servers can encounter problems. It's all the same data, that data needs to be stored somewhere, that storage requires a server.