Quote Originally Posted by Snow_Princess View Post
Makes no sense to me:


So no, I do not think he is completely understanding what a glam log is. Also wow does it fine... so.....
FFXIV is built on the horribadly coded original game that very few people liked and it was thrown together by many outsourced companies. They used the same engine and base code for the active game servers to talk to the character information servers.They've mentioned before that this means while you're walking around the server is constantly sending information back and forth between these servers for very little reason other than it was originally designed like that. Our characters entire inventory, currency status, quest status, timers and other unique data is being thrown back and forth the entire time you're logged in. It's like a beautiful city built on a very poorly tamped foundation. They COULD scrap it and redo the coding from the ground up, but that's what they tried to avoid when they did 2.0. Salvage what they could and make it into a game people wanted to play without just starting from nothing.
this is not an argument for or against your ideas. This is the reason they keep talking about bandwidth and servers. It's a limitation they're constantly working around due to the games origins.