"There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you." -Mazer Rackham - Ender's Game Orson Scott Card
Let's compare to skyrim, which was released last year.
minimum requirements:
Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit) - roughly the same
Processor: Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent processor - roughly the same, maybe slightly higher than MoP's given you can get dual cores will less than 2ghz
2GB System RAM - the same
6GB free HDD Space - lower requirement, but not really an issue
Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512 MB of RAM - a higher requirement, given both of MoP's required cards commonly had 256 MB
DirectX compatible sound card - presumably the same
Internet access for Steam activation - the same/irrelevant
And the recommended requirements:
Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit) - perhaps slightly lower, but XP is over a decade old now it's time to move on
Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU - a much higher recommendation
4GB System RAM - the same
6GB free HDD space - see above
DirectX 9.0c compatible NVIDIA or AMD ATI video card with 1GB of RAM (Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 or higher; ATI Radeon 4890 or higher). - again, a much higher recommendation
And that's comparing to one of the lowest requirements games. Compare to your average 'newer game' like your battlefield 3s and your modern warfare 3s, WoW's requirements are absolutely nothing.
Fun observation, Mists has similar requirements to Crysis, a game released 5 years ago. Women have fallen in love, married, become pregnant, given birth, and raised children who can walk and talk in the lag time between 'newer games' requirements and WoW's requirements.
Blizzard requested delete posts related to MoP cover on Official WoW Funsites
No, the minimum requires a dual core processor. Multi core refers to more than 2 in general parlance. $300 video cards and multicore processors, which you complained about, aren't in the minimum OR the recommended (hence I skipped to simply saying "aren't even in the recommended specs"). Please try consider if you have your own facts straight before attempting to insult the intelligence of others.
But hey, let me try to fix your problem for you. A single core processor bought in mid 2006 was likely using a LGA775 socket* so let's have a look...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-E2160-...item1c13026164
See, that wasn't too hard. Just stop paying for wow for a few months and you'll be able to afford that easily. Not that it would really be worth it, you'd be better off getting a whole new system probably (better chips on newer sockets are cheaper than that).
*feel free to correct me on what socket you have
The ICP in MMO was random and that makes it funny.
I'm indifferent against the box, some green was used for BC. I say the box should be black and white to honor pandas.
Well guess that means my system from 2010 with a AMD 64 bit CPU might be farked then for playing MoP even though it's played wrath and cata absolutely fine. It's kinda like how when wrath came out blizzard forced us all to have shadows turned on permanetly under every character's feet, without even basic shadows on it was a nice speed improvement on an older rig with bc/vanilla. Mind you though I can't see system requirements being upped that much this is just an expansion for WoW they havent exactly updated all the models and textures in the game either.
All I can do I suppose is get MoP and have everything turned down low and it should be playable. Because the more I think about it Blizzard's just saying Dual Core so they don't get flooded with complaints about people with CPU's older then 2010 whining why it doesn't run smooth. Hell a friend of mine two years ago had managed to run wrath on a computer from 2002 and it actually ran.. barely ran but it ran LOL.
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wow people are really complaining about the system spec?
Intel dropped the Core 2 Duo in 2006. Every half decent machine in the last 6 years has had a dual core processor. If you can't play then feel free to take your potato and go play solitaire.
Funny enough, I did buy mine in 2009. My brother assembled it for me once he had all the parts, and I did it on a budget of a little under $600. And the thing worked fine in WotLK with settings on "medium"-ish?
I'm figuring either I should've increased the budget or I'm clueless about what stuff I actually need. Maybe both. :S
I seented that box before reddit.
Pft Koreans get a refund, I should too
WoW wants basically only one thing: CPU horsepower. That means; Yeah most folks out there running a LGA 7xx are screwed if they want to do 25man w/o massive FPS lag fest.
My Rig was: C2D E6600; 4Gigs RAM (Wayne WoW only uses 1.3 or so); 8800GTX (Was twiddling it's circuits with 10% GPU usage in Raids).
My average FPS in Dragonsoul was.. 10. Yup.. 5 or less in AOE heavy situations (WITHOUT parsing Addons like recount). (Playing on ultra (-Shadows) because graphic settings didn't matter. Fun thing huh?)
That's why I call these "recommendations" BS.
I raided till May 2012 with the basic "blob" shadows under my characters feet, because my 8800GTX didn't like the new ones at all. Check your options. Chances are that your CPU will run MoP just fine, test it in Beta.Well guess that means my system from 2010 with a AMD 64 bit CPU might be farked then for playing MoP even though it's played wrath and cata absolutely fine. It's kinda like how when wrath came out blizzard forced us all to have shadows turned on permanetly under every character's feet, without even basic shadows on it was a nice speed improvement on an older rig with bc/vanilla.
My current rig is, 2.8ghz Pentium 4, 2gb of RAM and an X1650pro. I get around 15 fps in LFR (and not everything is on "low" either, most settings are good, except maybe shadows and particle and turned off sound effects.) Learn to tweak your settings a little and it runs ok. I'm hoping to get a new laptop soon, before MoP, but even so, I'm actually confident I could quest and run dungeons on my current system, maybe even run 10 mans.
I thought the intro was really funny lol, and casey's reply to it even more so lol.
LOL. I think you've been taking it from big business for too long. A bit of Stockholm syndrome if you will.
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Another LOL-inducing post. Show us where we can get such a PC for $100/$200/$400.
There's a post up there that points out that the requirements are very misleading because it does not seem to account for large PVE raids.
guess i rly need to upgrade my pc
looks good