For me, playing CoX for a while got me used to devs overpromising and underdelivering (bases), screwing up just enough of a system to make it suck (just about every balance change), or outright lying ("we'll never have PvP/loot/etc."). 
I always keep my expectations extremely low so I can never be terribly disappointed.
The whole limited wards thing is the part that really bothers me, though. For me, the fact that people can get to the point where they've fulfilled the gil requirement and still get shafted on having a house is extremely annoying. That's just exclusivity atop exclusivity for no good reason, IMO. Is some finance guy behind all of this? Is someone at SE still saying, "Geez, this game could implode into a massive quagmire at any moment, so let's not spend any money on infrastructure until we absolutely have to?" Why don't we have like... 80 wards just to start? Why isn't EC2 or Azure being used to spin up new wards on demand (as soon as one fills up, one pops within X hours) that can be live migrated back to the proper datacenter? The whole thing boggles the mind.
I always keep my expectations extremely low so I can never be terribly disappointed.The whole limited wards thing is the part that really bothers me, though. For me, the fact that people can get to the point where they've fulfilled the gil requirement and still get shafted on having a house is extremely annoying. That's just exclusivity atop exclusivity for no good reason, IMO. Is some finance guy behind all of this? Is someone at SE still saying, "Geez, this game could implode into a massive quagmire at any moment, so let's not spend any money on infrastructure until we absolutely have to?" Why don't we have like... 80 wards just to start? Why isn't EC2 or Azure being used to spin up new wards on demand (as soon as one fills up, one pops within X hours) that can be live migrated back to the proper datacenter? The whole thing boggles the mind.
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