Well bard aoe wouldn't have happened on live servers like it does here. For one, the game masters would of banned or suspended you if you were screwing with other paying subscribers like that. Pretty pure and simple, ban a few bards for monopolizing zones that were full of people, you lose very little cash flow, but to have the people quit because bards are taking entire zones would be a lot of cash flow lost. Normal zone population in live was a lot more than it is here.
If you dont want to believe the hardware excuse then let's look at software. The classic user interfaces which 95% of the server doesn't use has its limitations. The velious user interface for example is such an fps hog that you will start feeling the lag with today's hardware if you have more than 25 mobs. There also was no in game changing or lowering of settings by the extent that we now have in p1999.
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