It is time to get a 3rd free Retainer

[Snow_Princess]

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.

Stop being cheap then and fix the issue???? it is only going to get worse and worse and harder fix and more costly to fix the more they prolong this, they can't expect 5.0 + to be made while still doing that do they?!!?!?!?!?

I know it wasn't but it didn't make sense to me, it is really illogical to set it up that way. So sick of hearing the cut corner excuse, fix it already! While we are on loading issues, why does it take years for GM mail to load(sometimes fail to show anything, need exit the support center menu completely and try again, if you click on one letter and hit reply, you have to exit the system completely again otherwise you are spammed with failed to send, along with moogle mail being slow af. Why is the game like this? Again it feels like the servers are from the 1970s when you deal with stuff like this, and all the errors you get when trying to multitask (joining a pt while crafting, or cannot do x because you need to exit some menu.