Quote Originally Posted by Abriael View Post
@Sakasa: you're overcomplicating the problem massively, while as a matter of fact, you know absolutely nothing abaut the game's server tech and about what it can or camnnot support.

Here are a few facts for you:

1: other developers managed it wit no hitch on games that are visibly more data intensive that ffxiv will ever be.
2: other developers, like ccp, managed to store all the characters created by their userbase over 9 years on the same server cluster, an that system doesn't have a single problem, despite the fact that their characer data is immensely more complex than ffxiv's and is constantly fished out by a metric ton of external appli ations via API.
3: other devlopers are succesfully retrofitting this system or similar ones intheir older games, despite the fact that their server tech was not built for it.

ffxiv's dev team is made by pretty competent people. So why don't you leave the feasibility assessments to them, since they have the competence and all the necessary info, instead of cooking up makeshift ones based on thin air?

It obviously is possible, whether it's cost effective or compatible with their plans and tech it's for Yoshida and his team to assess and decide.

as I said before about cost assessments, I'm rather sure that they don't need help from the forums on that.
1. Oh i forgot you developed all these games so you can show us some facts about that...
2. again i forgot you designed and managed all those database...
3. other developer published their games with that system so i guess they planned and worked from first day with it. And which old games changed technology to a similar system?

They are competent thats why you should let them do their work, instead of demanding a system you want. Did you ever think it could be possible the devs don't want something like that and don't start again that its obligatory to surivive in the future market...

The question if it's possible can only be answered by the ARR devs and not by you cause sry even if you had some interviews in the past i doubt you are able to give us some facts...

They won't need help from us, but even less they will need help from someone who is bored cause he stil can't test the game....