Inventory on different platforms question

[Felis]

content of inventory is saved server side
How the content of the inventory is sorted is saved client side to save traffic.

but those stupid files are 10kbs... I think we pay enough subscription to store that amount of data on their servers

multiply it by the amount of players who play at the same time world wide.
Or wish some players the good old time from 1.0 back, where it needed 10 seconds to show us our inventory?

[Gillionaire]

content of inventory is saved server side
How the content of the inventory is sorted is saved client side to save traffic.


multiply it by the amount of players who play at the same time world wide.
Or wish some players the good old time from 1.0 back, where it needed 10 seconds to show us our inventory?

I understand that there's the factor of scale with these things, but if just about every other game's able to do it, why can't FF14?

Are their servers just really that trash? Or is the programming so bloated and requires a lot more bandwidth for regular tasks?

I personally think the answer's both.. It seems like the game just isn't very well optimized, especially on the UI end of things.. And the server lag on different time of the day also doesn't do much to get my vote of confidence.

[Callinon]

content of inventory is saved server side
How the content of the inventory is sorted is saved client side to save traffic.


multiply it by the amount of players who play at the same time world wide.
Or wish some players the good old time from 1.0 back, where it needed 10 seconds to show us our inventory?

It's an extra 2 bytes of data per item... seriously.

Carrier 0 - 5 (0 for player, 1 - 4 for retainers)
Item slot 0 - 174

Since we're already sending item IDs and quantities all the damn time, why not include 2 additional bytes of data that tells us exactly where the item is?

This would not lead to bandwidth overload or massive UI load times.