Quote Originally Posted by angelar_ View Post
Only modern MMO not moving towards megaserver technology, if it isn't already there.
I don't think FF14 would ever want to have megaserver technology given the population numbers. Just on average, If I was to assume 20 players during prime hours in Limsa, and you had that for 32 worlds, I would not want to think of having over 600 characters on my screen in a small area. I wouldn't be able to see anything at all. I would not want to think of hunt trains of 400+ people trying to kill the same mob and someone didn't have their effects turned down. I would not want to think of dealing with 1 marketboard that was combined and dealing with bots crashing every market that much easier. I also would not want to think of a 300+ Other Tab for venues because all 4 data centers are competing now and trying to spam PF's to stay at the top. I do not want to think of a 200+ savage PF list to cyphen through to decide what to join. Crystalline Conflict would be better and worse because ranked would be harder to wintrade inside of, but casual sync'ing with friends would be near impossible and the trolls/griefers/queue problems from one data center would have free reign on all of them. Currently it's a pick your poison for what data center you queue on. Housing would be a massive dumpster fire to combine, shout chat advertising being combined of all 4 data centers would be a dumpster fire.