Quote Originally Posted by Aenarion View Post
that fact that FF14 isn't ever likely to attain that sort of number aside, it's not like character data is a hard thing to save. If CCP, a much smaller company than SE can save every single character's data on every account that's ever created in EVE in the 8 1/2+ years of the game's history so far (which is actually likely far above just 1 million), along with FAR more items in their inventory space (which is unlimited, I myself have thousands, if not tens of thousands of different item stacks across my characters), then I don't see how SE can pull a too-much-stuff-to-save card unless they're cheap beyond a fault and/or utterly incompetent on how to create/manage a database.

thats just my best guess, maybe they're just greedy