Ah, that's a interesting find.

I wonder why they chose to do it that way now... I see some lag when I query the server for things sometimes....like for instance, summoning retainers. And I'm sure you notice how you can search by part of a word when looking for a crafting recipe but when searching the market board it's exact first word only.

Maybe they are scared of querying the server too much? I remember a review with one of the devs talking about how they accidentally broke the game once by allowing people to query what zone their friend was in too quickly... so they added delays for lots of operations so people couldn't knock the server offline.

Everyone querying the server time at once might cause problems? Maybe not... but I bet they'd err on the side of caution... 2.0 early access/launch was a bit messy with the server crashes. Not as problematic as other game launches though.