Quote Originally Posted by nasomi View Post
As a programmer, I understand the complexity of hte task. However character files are merely that, files. No one in their right mind would store character information in a database. What, a new table for every character? Or one table, with a billion columns with an x for every flag/item/etc? They're stored in files. So, if you even went with a new database, it wouldn't be that hard to write a script to re-write the character files for hte new database format, because new file format for storing character data is very reasonable. However a batch job to convert what, 20,000 character files to the new format? far from difficult.

I'm all about having 2.0 be as great as it can be. However to toss people out is pretty brutal. They are trying to stay afloat, this stuff costs money, and that comes from subscriptions. So as much as folks may want to say "do away with the nay-sayers".
these guys have custom inhouse special tools i bet money its not as easy as a batch file, then it wouldent take a month or more to do a few thousand characters/profiles, they would also have to stay inside the TOS & licenses of the software there using you cant just do what ever you want or a lawsuit is gonna happen.