Gold Saucer - Chocobo Interface Typo

[spellsnare]

don<t worry fernehalwes your stuff your bring us is never bored we can see how hard your work to bring us a beautiful game and try hard to add some content we want. keep up the good work your dev team and community team to your are the best listener in all MMORPG time. That why i enjoy so much your game you listen your player base and that i have my full respect.

P.S : dont throw rock in me please but if only other company like you SE and the dev team for FF 14 ARR can make a exemple on you. We can have all time beautiful game wicth no day one pacth and maybe no crash or corrupted file and etc in day one release

[AlexionSkylark]

So you guys are using SVN eh?

Actually it'd be quite understandable if they used Git. Maybe Mercurial, tho I don't think Hg was around by the time ARR development started, and people don't usually change VCSses mid-project.

[uppfinnarn]

There's another reason why game developers in particular typically use Subversion (SVN) rather than Git or what have you: these are built largely with text in mind, and handles this beautifully. You can even get some images in there. But when you start to ship around gigabytes of binary assets (models, textures, tables, ...), these newfangled, decentralized VCSes slow to a crawl as it budges under the sheer weight of all that data, and your working copy starts to grow in size very, very quickly.

SVN has a design based around a central, authoritative copy, rather than each user's working copy being authoritative on its own. This means the client doesn't have to hold every version of every file in the repository, it can just ask the server for older revisions when it needs them, and scan through a manageable amount of data on the client side.

When you have a strictly defined team, such as when you're a game developer, a central server to house all the data, and a large amount of binary assets that all have to be versioned as well, you'll find that a centralized VCS works a lot better than a decentralized one.