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[Mormolyce]

Can't blame the South Koreans really; 10 years to prepare for the game and its release, and they still screw it up royally.

Because they've been amassing servers to deal with day 1 rushes for the last 10 years amirite?

Has any game of D3's size ever had a launch without servers going down?

[Rendia]

The way he said that may be bad but he has a point. WoW system requirements are low. Very low. Even those mentioned for MoP. I understand that some people cant afford to buy a new PC but nobody is asking to buy a state of art machine. If someone can afford to pay monthly sub for WoW then he should surely afford to buy cheap PC parts that would meet the MoP requirements. And by cheap I mean really cheap. Second hand market etc. Unless someone can barely make it to pay that monthly WoW sub and there is no room for anything else. But in such case I would think that this person should consider if playing WoW is a reasonable thing to do at all.

I know some people can be in tough life situations. But world moves on. By that logic someone could demand that WoW should be playable on hardware from 1995. Blizzard is already holding back becouse of people with weaker systems. If you would ask me, I would be for making a total engine overhaul that would probably boost the requirements x2. Some of WoW models from 2004 look goddamn awful today and lots of people will agree with that. And Blizzard is not upgrading only becouse that would piss people with lower machine settings.

And yet I now read that some people say that MoP requirements are too high? Seriously? Lets try to be reasonable. Some compromise maybe? Since 2004 I bought a new PC three times already and next year I will probably buy fourth. That is perhaps over the top and I understand that. But if someone cant afford now to buy PC parts from 2005 he should reconsider if gaming is a good hobby for him.

I am not saying they are too high, far from it in fact. I just feel that they could have gone the EQ route and had their lower end settings for people that have crappy PCs, and have a greater field of upgradeable options, such as models, texture, etc.

They don't HAVE to force the higher settings, they are choosing to.

TL;DR Not complaining that they are too high, just that they moved me out of being able to play.

[DarkIron]

So the first raid encounter is a minute long.. Awesome, gg casuals for destroying the game.

[Deleted]

My antivirus is blocking the korean site link.

Just to let you know...

[deadman1]

Because they've been amassing servers to deal with day 1 rushes for the last 10 years amirite?

Has any game of D3's size ever had a launch without servers going down?

It's blizzard they should know how to run servers. This isn't their first rodeo.

---------- Post added 2012-06-25 at 02:45 AM ----------

it`s been happening weeks and weeks later, not just the week later.



maroon is a shade of red, it`s not so much red itself, just like the cata box is more orange.

but i agree, jade or cyan or teal, fit much better.

MoP Box huh, either theyve had these for a looooooooong time now, or the release date is right around the corner?

I'm pretty sure the cata box is black judging by that picture.

[Granyala]

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2, up from the Intel Pentium D.

Recommended... with a Core 2 Duo you can forget raiding 25mans. How can they recommend that?

[Stormgnoef]

lolol.Butthurt much?Stop wasting money on useless stuff and upgrade pc once ina life time instead of being cheap skate.

[NatePsy]

It's clearly a Blizzard employee with his/her own personal computer desk, look at the pattern of it. Also some of them have Razer mouses.

[Granyala]

lolol.Butthurt much?Stop wasting money on useless stuff and upgrade pc once ina life time instead of being cheap skate.

1. My butt is none of your business.
2. I'm running a Core i5-3570K
3. I'm critisizing that the recommended specs aren't useful to people who don't have a clue about hardware. They'd buy an old C2D rig and would just have to see that it's not enough to have fun in LFR/25man Raids.

[Larwood]

It's clearly a Blizzard employee with his/her own personal computer desk, look at the pattern of it. Also some of them have Razer mouses.

some of a lot of people have razer mice...

[ZeroWashu]

Recommended... with a Core 2 Duo you can forget raiding 25mans. How can they recommend that?

because I would bet that a majority of people do not do 25 man raids, let alone raid.

[dizzzave]

So the first raid encounter is a minute long.. Awesome, gg casuals for destroying the game.

Clearly the raid is complete, fully tuned, and ready for release.

Dumbass.

[Granyala]

because I would bet that a majority of people do not do 25 man raids, let alone raid.

Shouldn't the recommended setting tell you "with this system you can do everything in the game w/o problems"?

And I doubt that it's that few that do LFR (which is 25man).

[Myzou]

Oh hey look, they upgraded the specs outside of my laptop specs.

I hope they enjoy losing quite a bit of subscribers with those upgrades. (This laptop is from 2007. It's only 5 years old. WoW is older than it, so to the people telling me to upgrade: Bite me.)

They're going to see a substantial subs drop if the recommended ends up real. I only actually know 1 person with a computer that meets those specs. Quite literally only 1. (at least offline). Everyone I know has a computer from 2007-2009, which don't fit those specs.

[good diu bro]

Completely unwarranted response.

But, since it seems you were in fact the one that failed to read, let me c/p it for you:



It doesn't take a genius to see that this statement definitely implies/gives the suggestion that SC2 is on a monthly subscription model in South Korea.

You sir are a genius that I dont even...
Yes, we have a monthly "plan" which is 1/10 of the "recommended" price for 30 days, just like most other games. When SC2 just released, we even have a one day plan which sell for just 1/40 of the store price, just like other new games on shelf.
But that doesn't imply our SC2 is on a monthly subscription model. Buying the game off the shelf in a store is way cheaper with more stuff and a lifetime pass.
What you see is just a trial with a price tag.
(Oh and NEVER buy Blizzard games via battlenet digital download, it is a rip-off. If you know your local gamestore well, you can get the same game alot cheaper with the box)

Let me give you another example, MMORPGs here can be played without monthly or year pass. We can charge our account with pre-paid game time (eg:30 hours of game time for the price of 1/2 of monthly subscription).
But that doesnt mean our WoW is based on a time-based subscription model, because we can have a monthly subscription and pre-paid game time at the same time.
If our monthly subscription run out, we can still continue the game with pre-paid game time. If we beat the game and decide to turn causal, we can ditch the year pass and choose to be charged per minute.

You can even go to your battle.net account, choose "buy digital games", change region to "Korea" or "Taiwan" and see how your game in Asia works, its still in English.

TL; DR, It is just a lame name to charge you $$ for a trial product.

[skyclops]

Kudos to casey for having icp on

[Granyala]

Everyone I know has a computer from 2007-2009, which don't fit those specs.

I bought a comp with these specs early 2006 and back then it wasn't even high end. Seriously what rigs are your people gaming on? If they bought 2009 their comp should be a lot better that these recommendations.

[Tackhisis]

So they have decided to alienate their population by increasing the system requirements to these of the newer games? There's absolutely nothing in WoW which requires a $300 videocard, or multicore processor.

[Larwood]

Oh hey look, they upgraded the specs outside of my laptop specs.

I hope they enjoy losing quite a bit of subscribers with those upgrades. (This laptop is from 2007. It's only 5 years old. WoW is older than it, so to the people telling me to upgrade: Bite me.)

They're going to see a substantial subs drop if the recommended ends up real. I only actually know 1 person with a computer that meets those specs. Quite literally only 1. (at least offline). Everyone I know has a computer from 2007-2009, which don't fit those specs.

Maybe your friends need to learn to shop more carefully then, I bought my current PC at the very start of 2009 and it was extremely cheap, every component was totally entry level or thereabouts and it still does 25 mans totally fine. The only upgrade I've had is a graphics card that you can now buy on ebay for easily under $50 (HD 5770).

As for you personally, well, you're trying to game on a laptop, what do you expect?

[Laylriana]

I had expected the box to be red. Red denotes good fortune in China. That is why brides usually wear red and why red boxes are given on New Years.