Valefor.Prothescar said:
»Bismarck.Dracondria said:
»Should have made personal housing its own zone, kind of like a personal room or inn room instead of being in a ward. Even if you needed an FC house to buy a personal one it would've been a lot better.
but but but server limitations.
know what gets me? games like wildstar and rift (even XI) can afford to instance a personal house (several personal houses in the case of RIFT) with no issue and they hand them out
for free with even stronger personalization tools than XIV offers. what are they running XIV off of? toasters?
Pretty sure Jaerik mentioned something about them not utilizing the same kind of servers, thus not being able to do it that way.
Something something old tech something something typical SE
Maybe something about physical servers too? I think that meant that instead of an area being up, always (need more room in a zone? create a temporary new one or something like that iirc), if it crashed they'd have to perform some kind of maintenance on it
I dunno, I don't know much about this stuff so I could be wrong about this but I think that's what he said. Think how Guild Wars does it, they can keep zones up even with too many people by generating overflows, they don't need more physical servers to do it.
The type of server he mentioned was apparently also cheaper to have and much better lol