WoW died with LK. Greed and stupidity killed it. All that remains since then is unskillfully embalmed corpse. No miracle it stinks more with every passing day.
I'd love to see a game that has the same quality as WoW and plays well. Rift almost did it until their expansion destroyed the game.
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What pc gaming industry you are speaking about? If you are speaking about single player games - they have much lower hardware requirements than MMOs given same graphical level, because you don't have hundreds of models spamming aoe all at same time on your screen with additional sync checks, which increases hardware requirements exponentially. And even with that there are enough threads on various forums about different unoptimzied pieces of "soft" which like to produce BSODs.
If you are about MMO gaming industry, I didn't really see much success from any modern MMO with flashy graphics. Lack of creativity is only one reason for this, other reason is hardware requirements. And it is not like we are dealing with economical crisis to look at PCs as expendables. There are many countries where one medium salary isn't enough to buy half-decent PC.
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"There is a pervasive myth that making content hard will induce players to rise to the occasion. We find the opposite. " -- Ghostcrawler
"The bit about hardcore players not always caring about the long term interests of the game is spot on." -- Ghostcrawler
"Do you want a game with no casuals so about 500 players?"
"There is a pervasive myth that making content hard will induce players to rise to the occasion. We find the opposite. " -- Ghostcrawler
"The bit about hardcore players not always caring about the long term interests of the game is spot on." -- Ghostcrawler
"Do you want a game with no casuals so about 500 players?"
Don't try to evade your own logic.Your logic applies to single players too.You said it's better to keep a game old and low quality to attract more players.What does the game being multiplayer or singleplayer have to do with it?
Higher requirements?Don't generalize,there are a lot of pc games with much higher requirements then most mmo's.
Yet the industry is moving forward and improving graphical quality,multiplayer or singleplayer,your logic doesn't apply to reality.
Not even gonna question the truth of this claim but are you now even claiming that the failures of those mmo's is related to their graphical quality?
Indeed, because it was successful from all sides. What was it's main competitors at time of release? EverQuest I and II.
EverQuest I it is like doing WoW heroic mode times eleven all the time (not in raids only) - it is not the best analogy but so you could understand. And it greatly suffered from loading screen and fps issues (especially after Luclin or what was that expansion), even though it has much inferior graphics to WoW - loading screen could take up several minutes, while in WoW it's near instant. Corpse run could become a pure torture, as you often had to pass through multiple loading screens to get to your corpse...
EverQuest II? It was like WoW, but it had so high hardware demands, so it wasn't successful at all, and people only really started to check on it several years later.
The WoW engine was developed by Blizzard and is modified over time. Each expansion and sometimes patches adds new tech to the engine. Weather effects, sunshafts, shadows, etc. These are all signs of a modern engine.
The minimum system requirements go *up* every expansion. Why would this happen if the engine is not being improved? This is also the minimum. If you turn everything up it starts to look really good. Once the player models are updated everything will be in sync.
Show me a few MMO's that have better graphics, perform at a high level with them turned up and can have 100 players on the screen with no lag? Rift? FPS drops to 25 because the engine is garbage? SWTOR? Same thing and there weren't even high resolution textures available before I quit. Tera? Nothing but complaints about crappy FPS on good computers.