Mass Server Transfers...Consideration for Database-wide PF/Linkshells?

[Catwho]

Two reasons:

1. Server limitations. The amount of server stress a server experiences increases exponentially with the number of requests it has to handle. That is, doubling the number of requests to a server more than doubles the server stress. That's the whole reason we're on separate worlds in the first place and not on one giant mega server. Could SE address that issue with an infrastructure upgrade? Of course, you can solve any IT problem if you throw enough money at it. But that's probably an investment they don't want to make in light of #2, which is:

2. They're making a TON of money off it. $200,000 in November alone. Why "fix" something when it's clear that players are perfectly willing to throw cash at them to get around the limitations?

Also, I bet you half the folks who transferred over to Balmung did so for role play and not for endgame raiding, and expanding Party Finder to the data center does nothing for them.