Quote Originally Posted by Talraen View Post
Oh I agree that a different server setup would potentially alleviate these issues. But that's not going to happen anytime soon (or ever), and we should be realistic about whether requests like this will be implemented as a result. Criticizing their years-old design doesn't solve any problems. I'm not sure it's at all practical to ever change basic server design issues for a running game anyway, because they've likely taken advantage of this design in other ways that a redesign would end up breaking. I do hope FF17 or whatever has a better basic design, but I'm not holding my breath for this game.
Yup, for sure. It's a hard problem to fix now. Very hard. It'd be worth doing, but that's not to sell short the scale of the work.