Quote Originally Posted by Sove92 View Post
It's not really an excuse. There's a limit to how much data you can write per second and until we get a new standard, it's not going to see a big increase. Atm character data gets updated every 15 seconds in case of a server failure. If they were to increase character data, the write delay would need to be increased. You will only want them to take the risk until your character data gets rolled back. The moment it happens, the forum is full of "I LOST MY XXX, PLS FIX SE!" threads. The only thing they can say after that is "Sorry, we can't return the lost character data"
And the main point people forget, is a character, one player in XIV is equivalent to this.

1 FFXIV character=WoW classes Warrior, Hunter, Paladin, Rogue, Priest, Death Knight, Shaman, Mage, Warlock, Monk, Druid, Demon Hunter etc.

Count that 12 classes. XIV currently has 13 classes and 12 DOL/DOH. Now think about this. Imagine if WoW allowed you to play all classes on one character, think about your inventory management then and then come back and understand why it's not as easy as you might think it is.