Quote Originally Posted by Sibyll View Post
I just don't see why they can't save your buffs and progress. I've played MMOs where any buffs/effects you have on when you log out are remembered for when you log back in, so I know it's possible. I don't understand why such a basic QoL feature like this is outside of the bounds with the technology that exists.
Technically speaking one of the biggest goals and points from the 1.0 to 2.0 transition was building better faster clients and servers which were lighter with better capacity. Technically speaking such a feature does require some bandwidth/state. The bigger problem is its a fairly significant investment of development time, debug, testing and polish. Which is why I don't think we'll see such an "advanced" feature ;-/