The problem to get houses now

[hakurou46]

I'll chime in to say that even if 2.0 had been written completely from scratch (which would honestly have been a dumb effort - much better to strip the functional parts from your broken game to make a functional game from than to spend thousands of man-hours rewriting code that you already have), it's still a pretty old game by now. Writing server code that'll flawlessly scale is hard. I mean, they've mentioned in a few live letters that they're getting to the point where they are starting to get problems with issuing enums to all their items in game, which I can almost entirely guarantee you wasn't an issue they ever planned for. (It's the kind of issue any programmer can see coming years in advance, but if you expect to stop before coming to it, you don't have to put measures in place to fix it.)

[Kytrin]

I'll chime in to say that even if 2.0 had been written completely from scratch (which would honestly have been a dumb effort - much better to strip the functional parts from your broken game to make a functional game from than to spend thousands of man-hours rewriting code that you already have), it's still a pretty old game by now. Writing server code that'll flawlessly scale is hard. I mean, they've mentioned in a few live letters that they're getting to the point where they are starting to get problems with issuing enums to all their items in game, which I can almost entirely guarantee you wasn't an issue they ever planned for. (It's the kind of issue any programmer can see coming years in advance, but if you expect to stop before coming to it, you don't have to put measures in place to fix it.)

That does not surprise me in the least. Nor would it honestly surprise me if, instead of addressing the various things we players keep asking for in 14, they incorporated all of that into their next MMO. Which would, hopefully, have considerably better coding and a stronger engine. I imagine it's far easier to implement instanced housing and higher item slots and such from the get go instead of trying to cram it in afterwards.

It wouldn't surprise me if we started seeing teasers for the next MMO sometime in the next 2-4 years, but that's a whole OTHER discussion lol.