Internet and computers were slower, broadband an i5's didn't exist, so there was less margin for error. As a bard, its pretty easy to see: keeping 4 songs up is easy on P99, but look through all the old bard websites on how "pro" it was to maintain 4 songs even keeping 3 up was considered "good". That's not a player limitation, that's a hardware limitation. That's just one reason.
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