$$$ to unlock an item/emote for 1 character = awful, but per ACCOUNT..?

[ConstantlyVexed]

I know I would buy more stuff from there if it was account wide. I refuse to buy single character only items though and always will. Fantasias dyes and furniture I can see as an exception though

[Kosmos992k]

It's more that the database and associated systems sound like they're extremely poorly designed that's the issue.

I believe it was said that the system uploads the entirety of every character's database every 15 seconds or something, which is why there are so many issues about not letting the database get too large.

That's not poor design. That's designed to ensure that rollbacks are not an issue if you get disconnected. If they were to go the route of transaction logs, it would make eco very more difficult and the server would be running a crapton of additional logs. You say that they sound extremely poorly designed? I'd say that your comment was extremely dismissive and glib, unless of course you have experience designing multiple MMORPG databases and administering them.

[Naunet]

That's not poor design. That's designed to ensure that rollbacks are not an issue if you get disconnected.

I can't recall ever disconnecting in other MMOs and losing items or progress I'd already made. They are definitely doing something different, and I really don't think it's helping them in ways that are worth it.

[Eldevern]

I can't recall ever disconnecting in other MMOs and losing items or progress I'd already made. They are definitely doing something different, and I really don't think it's helping them in ways that are worth it.

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