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biceps crimes posted:infrastructure doesn't magically scale, it needs to be intentionally designed to do so. And if you pile a ton of features and dependencies upon an old system that wasn't designed to easily scale, you incur a poo poo load of technical debt, where features which seemingly shouldn't be a problem or expensive are excessively so and would require a ton of rework and throwing out old poo poo while maintaining all of the current dependencies... yeah. i can easily imagine a scenario where the only way they can scale is to throw more hardware at the problem, and that is very expensive Throwing more hardware at it is literally what scaling is. And it isn't a matter of losing money, just making slightly less profit, which can easily be offset by renting. They have an app you rent, retainers for rent, and they literally sell passes to bypass content. This isn't a crazy or even difficult idea, it's literally what they are already doing. Mind you, I don't really care, but I always think it's very strange when people are willing to just chalk up these low level technology problems as if they were insurmountable or even difficult.
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:This is a very strange argument to have when they literally are just adding more, as they semi regularly do. Fair point
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Chillgamesh posted:Check out this little booger who I'm guessing drops in the new dungeon: ZenMasterBullshit posted:That's a crossover with the nier gacha isn't it? https://twitter.com/Nova_Crystallis/status/1606283346803392515
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Kwyndig posted:So finally having done Netflix roulette again... it's not Netflix Roulette anymore. The new versions of Castrum and Prae are basically entirely new, completely standard dungeons with a sprinkling of cutscene before bosses. They cut almost all of the cutscenes that weren't bosses monologuing, no more patrols standing down or distant explosions. Castrum is the clear winner because they kept the cutscenes to the minimum and it's just a cool dungeon with huge pulls where you get the bliss of AOEing hits noises, Prae still has too much cutscenes including the Gaius laïus but it's bearable. The UW fight could cut a lot of the first phase but the second phase is nice and require your attention. Also it introduces a lot of modern trials/raids markers to practice for sprouts. CT raids has been updated with these too in some places, it eases out the discovery of later more punishing fights.
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That's great that it's from a crossover event, it'll be easy to get
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iPodschun posted:Yeah it's Mama. They showed it during the live letter:
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DACK FAYDEN posted:holy poo poo that cyber mandragora owns The trailer also showed it's a boss fight. I don't think we know from where though. Are we getting another criterion dungeon in 6.45? I'd guess that or treasure dungeons.
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Kharmakazy posted:as if they were insurmountable or even difficult. i don't think you know what you're talking about
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Kharmakazy posted:Throwing more hardware at it is literally what scaling is. And it isn't a matter of losing money, just making slightly less profit, which can easily be offset by renting. They have an app you rent, retainers for rent, and they literally sell passes to bypass content. This isn't a crazy or even difficult idea, it's literally what they are already doing. They did just come off a long period where they could not acquire any more servers for quite a length of time, to the point that they stopped selling the game because it was so crowded it took an hour or two to get on a server. Luckily that has changed which is why new servers have finally opened recently with more to come. Technical decisions were made long ago that housing wards are neighborhoods and will always be running rather than spinning up and down as people leave. There also seems to be a reluctance to touch any of the code related to housing; some of the plugin developers theorize most of the housing was done in a rush by contractors and the whole thing is a spaghetti mass that will make things keel over if you look at the code wrong. It's technical debt that has to be paid down, which is their responsibility of course. But because of the technical decisions made back in 2013-2014 and because of the semiconductor shortage, it's still not as simple as throwing more hardware at it.
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biceps crimes posted:i don't think you know what you're talking about How much can server infrastructure cost, ten dollars?
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Bruceski posted:The trailer also showed it's a boss fight. I don't think we know from where though. Are we getting another criterion dungeon in 6.45? I'd guess that or treasure dungeons. The boss is from the new deep dungeon, which typically has minions as rewards as well.
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biceps crimes posted:i don't think you know what you're talking about Feel free to think that, I don't mind. It's not like literally every other large company on earth has this figured out or anything.
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:The boss is from the new deep dungeon, which typically has minions as rewards as well. Ah right, makes sense given that it is.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:holy poo poo that cyber mandragora owns Yeah I need it so bad. And a Matrix glam
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Kharmakazy posted:Feel free to think that, I don't mind. It's not like literally every other large company on earth has this figured out or anything. there's parts of the game that still haven't changed because removing the glamour dresser somehow breaks them, I get the feeling that even adding a new housing system that's completely independent from the old code is harder than it looks plus the unspoken effect of it making diehards permasub so they can squat for a house, I get the feeling there's people in accounting that specifically don't want that patched out
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Unfortunately, poorly thought out decisions made by a developer a decade ago, followed by other devs iterating on the poorly thought out decisions for years rather than scrapping them and starting over from scratch, can make fixing things without blowing up your entire live environment Really Hard sometimes. It's basically my current work environment!
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we know that the current housing setup was on the edge of how much they could support it, given that when they implemented islands using the housing system to support the instancing they ended up making housing unusable for like a week after patch day. there's also no reason to disbelieve them saying that they were extremely limited on how many servers they could physically buy for the game other than reflexively disbelieving anything a company says
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flatluigi posted:we know that the current housing setup was on the edge of how much they could support it, given that when they implemented islands using the housing system to support the instancing they ended up making housing unusable for like a week after patch day. there's also no reason to disbelieve them saying that they were extremely limited on how many servers they could physically buy for the game other than reflexively disbelieving anything a company says How did I forget about that? The new islands meant nobody could enter their houses.
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Yeah the island thing makes it clear why they haven’t done the obvious “give everyone an instanced house” thing.
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Wow, that is some [Rak'tika spoilers]Looney Tunes poo poo going on in that ancient temple, huh
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dyslexicfaser posted:Wow, that is some [Rak'tika spoilers]Looney Tunes poo poo going on in that ancient temple, huh I very much appreciated the meta gag with Rescue.
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Thundarr posted:I very much appreciated the meta gag with Rescue. 
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Thundarr posted:Unfortunately, poorly thought out decisions made by a developer a decade ago, followed by other devs iterating on the poorly thought out decisions for years rather than scrapping them and starting over from scratch, can make fixing things without blowing up your entire live environment Really Hard sometimes. The forums will get better, I promise
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No way the Blackjack isn't gonna be $42 but if they keep adding old FF Airships like it and the Lunar Whale to Mogstation I might fork over cash for the FF9 Invincible or FF7 Highwind.
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Chillgamesh posted:No way the Blackjack isn't gonna be $42 but if they keep adding old FF Airships like it and the Lunar Whale to Mogstation I might fork over cash for the FF9 Invincible or FF7 Highwind. I'm 90% sure they said it was going to be an MGP mount. It may have just been the translators interpreting wrong, which is why I'm not 100% sure.
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So are they going to be bringing back PVP rewards to be purchased later? I missed the boat on the fist pound emote and I can't get it now.
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Vitamean posted:they haven't said if they would i thought early on they said they would? like super early
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Thundarr posted:I bought the Lunar Whale. you can simply not spend the dollars. buy chained echoes on steam and some good coffee instead
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Kerrzhe posted:i thought early on they said they would? like super early I think it was a misinterpretation of them saying you could still redeem rewards from a season prior if you forgot. I wouldn't count it out (it is only season 2 at the moment), but they just haven't said anything about it. I would hope they add them to the store alongside a general update to the stock, mainly because I'm constantly capped on trophy crystals and don't really wanna cash out on wolf collars or something.
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Thundarr posted:I very much appreciated the meta gag with Rescue. I still love the delay on the yank to make it consistent with how the actual button has lag issues.
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NEW SITS NEW SITS NEW SITS NEW SITS
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Blockhouse posted:NEW SITS NEW SITS NEW SITS NEW SITS Also a 'listen to linkpearl' emote! Which is probably going to be a limited-time PvP reward, like the other long-existent and requested but unavailable emotes.
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