Finally Understanding SE's Decision Making (And Why It Won't Change)

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aka incompetence

Basically that. It would help if they just proactively went and tried to hire all the modders and tool developers. Because they have had these problems for 12 years now:

• Armoire issues.
• Glamour Dresser issues.
• A housing crisis.
• Problematic buff and debuff limits that break rotations.
• Slow packet and battle processing code that 2013 multi-threaded hardware probably shouldn't struggle with, nevermind 2025 hardware.
• "Difficulty carrying things with the player" across physical servers.
• Inability to revisit linkshells, such that they created an entirely different version of them called CWLS.
• Daily DDoS of their NA servers that, while I admit are difficult to prevent, there are ways to think outside the box like creating multiple routes to the server and proactively diverting player clients to a different route when attacks are happening.

In addition, the struggle with viera and hrothgar hats for half of the game's existence now.