What are they going to say?

Our server architecture was programmed by a 3 year old and its too inferior to support this at this time? That's about the long and the short of it isn't it?

Even with the junk server architecture, I am not sure why they couldn't bring another server (hell make it a VM-we'll call it playersearchserver) to just manage players on a world. It's a band aid fix, but pushing player name, location, job out to playersearchserver every minute or so doesn't seem like an insurmountable task.

My guess is they don't want to pour money into the adhoc solution I suggest above because it doesn't resolve the overarching issue of junk server architecture that must be addressed anyway at some point before this game goes on ps3.

My other guess is they don't care about the current player population, so this is not a priority.