Quote Originally Posted by Catwho View Post
Don't forget, the whole reason they transitioned from 1.0 to 2.0 was because they already completely overhauled the server infrastructure and the client/server programming once. You think it's bad now, you didn't play 1.0 where a simple UI command took the server 5 seconds to respond because everything was done server side.

They've already done some hardware upgrades since 2.0 launched though. The EU data center basically got brand new hardware, and the old servers were (I imagine) re purposed back at the NA data center to help balance out the Primal/Aether loads. There have also been a few longer maintenances where they flat out said in the notes they were doing some hardware upgrades.
one point concerning this, first when they did change the server for the 2.0 they was planning an exploitation at the same size than FF11, means maximum 1Million account, however since then.... we did come closeof the 5M that a huge difference. means the size of data that the server have to save and such are quite different of what it was planned at the start. and that what yoshida did talk most of the time when he was saying it was not possible to do stuff. because the load of data was too important or will have make the server crash.

then yes the server need to be changed and yes Yoshida do want to change them, for the one that didn't heard of it, it did talk while the live last august.

indeed, the change of server will not affect us right now, but will allows them to increase the number of residential area, the number of item per house and such or even bring new system that will recquire a lot of data transfer. in the end we will feel this change.