Quote Originally Posted by frostmagemari View Post
Just how poor are their servers?
You're underestimating how easy it is for inefficient code to slow down the fastest systems. They obviously made some bad decision in their paranoia of client hacks, putting a lot more of load on the servers than other games do. It is already much better than in 1.0 where even a press on the "buy" button was executed by the server, not by the client. The whole UI only had graphics client side, it was almost as if you were streaming the game and not playing it on your PC... except that your PC had to render all the stuff.