Quote Originally Posted by Ashren View Post
The World Pass as it was would have no place in FFXIV regardless of whether it was abolished or not, you completely misunderstood what I was saying (or simply didn't both to read it correctly). The key feature of the World Pass was that you gave a friend a code, it let them make a character on your server. That alone is the function I would like to see added into FFXIV in a worse case scenario, just a code that lets your friend make a character on the server you are on regardless of character creation restrictions.

As to it not being as simple as increasing server capacity? I'm afraid your wrong. When 2.0 first went live there was in fact a server capacity of 5,000 (this only meant how many players could be connected to the server at once), the server capacity was then increased to around 7,800 roughly a month after its release. However, again, you missed my point completely here. What I am referring to is not the capacity for concurrent connections, but essentially to relax on the character creation restrictions. We have server queues for a reason, I don't understand why in addition we also need to make it so players can't even make characters on that server just because there are x amount of people currently logged in.
And you're missing an important point Enkidoh was referring to. Balancing out the connection pool can be be a big challenge... the database servers themselves also have indexes for performance that have to be maintained as well, it isn't just about the network devices. As your potential userbase increases, you also have to adjust the pool size and garbage cleanup.