Is it maybe time for a full infrastructure rebuild? (Re: Database and netcode issues)

[RukiaFae]

This.

It's not going to be an option, and we're going to hit the point where they'll need to start deleting expansion items from the game to make room for new ones.

Remember that chest piece appearance you're so fond of? Better not get too attached to it...

Now you're being dramatic. That's not going to happen. You're trying to cause panic where there is none. Just like any other game once this game hits it's max of where they want to take it, it will fade over time while they create a new game. For example FFXI which is still active.

[Callinon]

Now you're being dramatic. That's not going to happen. You're trying to cause panic where there is none. Just like any other game once this game hits it's max of where they want to take it, it will fade over time while they create a new game. For example FFXI which is still active.

FFXI is still adding new content and items with every patch (monthly). Also a lot of FFXI's "technical limitations" turned out to not really be limitations once the dev team stopped making excuses and started finding solutions.

Maybe the OP is being a little dramatic, but their point is 100% on target. The number of times Yoshi P has come out and said they can't do some basic expansion of a particular in-game system after only 2 expansions is, frankly, alarming. Do you remember back in 2.0 when SE said your entire character data including all your retainers is sent to the server every 15 seconds and that's why they couldn't expand retainer storage? The number of cut corners and band-aids revealed in that statement alone made alarm bells go off in my programmer brain. And that was in 2.0. What happens in 7.0?

The point is this needs to be addressed now while it's a manageable problem and not later when it's a behemoth of a problem.