You completely avoid the central question. Why has it taken eight years and CIG still hasn't managed to get two servers to share state? If we were one year in on a complex project, that would be fine.For what they want (one shard with x thousand of players) + long term persistence of objects + the actual data they manage in the alpha (which increase at each patch), the architecture they have to build now must be more complex than the one used for WOW.