Lol replace a crappy game graphics and you gonne play for another 7 years unbelievable can't believe what im reading here.
Graphic is not at all so crappy but i would like to see atleast something like Tera graphic. Maybe is that game crappy for you but believe me if you spend few years in this game it is like cyber drug and every other game just looks so empty. Now when i came back i enjoy flying on my mounts and listen sounds of lands. I do explore this huge world again and that is just a little part what wow have to offer
Are you kidding me? TERA's graphics were beyond bad.
Give something graphically like Crysis on DX11 or BF3 at max maybe and then you can talk.
And as for TERA's combat system - that's pretty damn bad too, it's not full on real time and the dodging/evading doesn't always work as it's meant to, which is hilarious because of the fact that it runs on the Unreal engine, which you'd think they'd find a way to make that happen.
As much as I hate WoW, it still has a strong subscriber base while TERA's is dying and will sink just like swtor has.
Hmmm... you are either trolling or you have not played nor looked at any videos of Tera (if you hated the style then you did not convey that with your comment). Graphics are some of the best I have seen in an MMO. The combat also works as intended. I have no problems dodging/evading and attacking. I probably won't play TERA after another month or two, but that is because I am one of those A.D.D. gamers who can't seem to stick with a game.
Regardless, I suggest you actually look at, or play the game before commenting.
While happy for You, sadly, for me, graphics are the lowest priority when it comes to MMOs, and WoW has more prbolems than just visuals.
Dumbed dwon, overly streamlined, repetitive, gear grind oriented, static gameplay is simply not something that I am able ot enjoy anymore. It's been fun those few years ago, but time moved forward and it simply stopped being fun. Not to mention fully tab target combat, watered down storyline, content quality going downw ith each following expansion, constant nerf cycles, constant tendency to make content obsolate, lack of actual challenge ... yeah. I'lls top here.
WoW had it's time for me but I happily said goodbye to it and not planning to return at any point in history. There is nothing Blizzard can do to make me interested at this point without redesigning the whole game from scratch, which will never happen.
Sorry dude but this is your opinion. I think that wow pvp is best what we have in classic style mmorpg. If you think it is dumbed down try to find a partner and win against top teams in arena. It is all about skill and to know each of classes to be able to counter attacks. In arena tournaments all players have top end gear and if is gear only about wining we would not have almost all the time same teams at the top. My friend for example was so bad in wow pvp and he did won maybe 5% of duels and now in swtor he rocks with Marauder because he don't need so much skill to play just raw power. In fact Blizzard is the only one in mmorpg who gives a lot of money to winers on tournaments
Are you kidding me? TERA's graphics were beyond bad.
Give something graphically like Crysis on DX11 or BF3 at max maybe and then you can talk.
And as for TERA's combat system - that's pretty damn bad too, it's not full on real time and the dodging/evading doesn't always work as it's meant to, which is hilarious because of the fact that it runs on the Unreal engine, which you'd think they'd find a way to make that happen.
As much as I hate WoW, it still has a strong subscriber base while TERA's is dying and will sink just like swtor has.
Hmmm... you are either trolling or you have not played nor looked at any videos of Tera (if you hated the style then you did not convey that with your comment). Graphics are some of the best I have seen in an MMO. The combat also works as intended. I have no problems dodging/evading and attacking. I probably won't play TERA after another month or two, but that is because I am one of those A.D.D. gamers who can't seem to stick with a game.
Regardless, I suggest you actually look at, or play the game before commenting.
True for sure. It is best graphic i saw in any mmo.Tera world is amazing
Are you kidding me? TERA's graphics were beyond bad.
Give something graphically like Crysis on DX11 or BF3 at max maybe and then you can talk.
And as for TERA's combat system - that's pretty damn bad too, it's not full on real time and the dodging/evading doesn't always work as it's meant to, which is hilarious because of the fact that it runs on the Unreal engine, which you'd think they'd find a way to make that happen.
As much as I hate WoW, it still has a strong subscriber base while TERA's is dying and will sink just like swtor has.
Hmmm... you are either trolling or you have not played nor looked at any videos of Tera (if you hated the style then you did not convey that with your comment). Graphics are some of the best I have seen in an MMO. The combat also works as intended. I have no problems dodging/evading and attacking. I probably won't play TERA after another month or two, but that is because I am one of those A.D.D. gamers who can't seem to stick with a game.
Regardless, I suggest you actually look at, or play the game before commenting.
True for sure. It is best graphic i saw in any mmo.Tera world is amazing
I just wish the game was more open like all the posts stated it was. I still find myself in constricted areas (ie; big hills/mountains forcing you into a corridor). But I am only level 15 so far, so I am hoping it is jus tthe area I am in. I also wish the PvP was a bit more hardcore. I think the punishment is a bit much. And no, I am not a ganker/griefer. I'm usually the one getting ganked.
I just cannot for the life of me understand why Blizzard don't do this.
They are making over a BILLION dollars every year from WoW, and it would cost maximum 50 million imho to texture the world in not TOR quality, not GW2 quality but proper modern game quality. If WoW looked better than TOR, there would be no reason to play it. I realistically just don't understand why Blizz cannot just spend 5% of their annual income from WoW on a good investment for the future.
I"ve never heard graphics as a reason people stop or start playing wow, . If thats your end all factor, look atthe pretty pictures.
I just cannot for the life of me understand why Blizzard don't do this.
They are making over a BILLION dollars every year from WoW, and it would cost maximum 50 million imho to texture the world in not TOR quality, not GW2 quality but proper modern game quality. If WoW looked better than TOR, there would be no reason to play it. I realistically just don't understand why Blizz cannot just spend 5% of their annual income from WoW on a good investment for the future.
they don't even need to upgrade the textures, just get better shaders and add some normal maps and the game will look pretty damn modern
Are you kidding me? TERA's graphics were beyond bad.
Give something graphically like Crysis on DX11 or BF3 at max maybe and then you can talk.
And as for TERA's combat system - that's pretty damn bad too, it's not full on real time and the dodging/evading doesn't always work as it's meant to, which is hilarious because of the fact that it runs on the Unreal engine, which you'd think they'd find a way to make that happen.
As much as I hate WoW, it still has a strong subscriber base while TERA's is dying and will sink just like swtor has.
Upgrade your system if you think that game looks bad... I mean really, I have played everything and the graphics and animation in Tera still have me amazed at times. And as good as it looks, it runs perfectly for me, which shocks me more.
As far as the combat, that's your opinion as it's obvious you hate the game. My bet would be that you never played and are just jumping on the hate wagon. in my opinion, the combat in Tera has made just killing mobs fun again. Of course, I like WoW also.
Are you kidding me? TERA's graphics were beyond bad.
Give something graphically like Crysis on DX11 or BF3 at max maybe and then you can talk.
And as for TERA's combat system - that's pretty damn bad too, it's not full on real time and the dodging/evading doesn't always work as it's meant to, which is hilarious because of the fact that it runs on the Unreal engine, which you'd think they'd find a way to make that happen.
As much as I hate WoW, it still has a strong subscriber base while TERA's is dying and will sink just like swtor has.
Hmmm... you are either trolling or you have not played nor looked at any videos of Tera (if you hated the style then you did not convey that with your comment). Graphics are some of the best I have seen in an MMO. The combat also works as intended. I have no problems dodging/evading and attacking. I probably won't play TERA after another month or two, but that is because I am one of those A.D.D. gamers who can't seem to stick with a game.
Regardless, I suggest you actually look at, or play the game before commenting.
I agree completely, as I just wrote on his post before I saw this...lol. Like or hate Tera, it looks ridiculous! I'm having fun in there now and just hope that the PvP works out and gives me a reason to do it other then, just killing everyone I see who's not me.
Updated graphics wouldn't bring me to play WoW again, I haven't played in years now. The reason I quit was the game has just aged as a game. It got so tiring and felt like a chore to log in to do dailies/raids/arenas/farm stuff for those things, all to have to do it all over again when a new expansion came out. I guess the whole pvp/pve gear grind has run its course for me, I can never go back to playing a game where just having the best gear means winning or losing no matter what the persons skill is. Having been in top arena teams and top raiding guilds, I just couldn't do it again.
Wow is a good game and I enjoyed some of the years playing it, it's just not the game for me.
Blizzard has never been good with state of the art visuals so don't hold your breath that WoW 2 or whatever MMORPG they are going to produce next will have it.
Can't believe people are still talking about this dried up game / developer after this long. With TERA, GW2, TSW, and FFXIV 2.0, WoW won't be able to keep up. Not because Blizzard can't keep up with these companies, but because they choose not to. (Working on other projects).
Ugh, I couldn't stand tears art style, too Korean for my taste. Not to mention the pedophiles dream player race elin. I'll take aged graphics over that filth anyway please.
I don't think WoW should change their graphics. It would be nice to see them using high res textures in more places though. The style is very important to WoW and that engine captures it well.
Play for fun. Play to win. Play for perfection. Play with friends. Play in another world. Why do you play?
Have you played Age of Conan on maxed graphics? Nothing currently on the market can even touch it. And, I prefer the combat in AoC as well. If AoC had a "truly free" F2P model, I think it would be more popular than it currently is.
I would probably never have stopped playing WoW if the developers had cared about anything other than money. In my opinion, Blizzard stopped making great games when it turned it's focus 100% on money, much like other large companies in the industry (EA anyone?). Not to say Blizzard can't still turn out a well polished game worth the purchase price, but they certainly are a shadow of what they once were in regards to game fun factor.
Edit: Updating game graphics would be something I put under the caring about something other than money category. Only reason to spend money on overhauling graphics is because you care about the quality of the game.
Can't believe people are still talking about this dried up game / developer after this long. With TERA, GW2, TSW, and FFXIV 2.0, WoW won't be able to keep up. Not because Blizzard can't keep up with these companies, but because they choose not to. (Working on other projects).
Huh? Is this post real life?
They chose not to? Have you heard of Mist of Pandaria? You can think what you'd like, but people will be back in droves for this game. Mark my words. Everyone always says they're not coming back, but they always do.
Also, this "dried up" game you speak of still have more active paying subs then any game out by far. I'm not playing it at the moment, but I'm also not gonna act like I won't be back. I'm not a hypocrite.
I think the only way Blizzard can update their graphics engine is very gradually like how they've been doing it so far. To make this game have Tera graphics from night to morning is possible for them, but they would loose a big chunck of their subscribers who cannot run such graphical levels. And if they were to give us the option of "Big Graphics" or "Small Graphics" they would have to maintain two graphics engines, which is more hassle than it's worth.
Even so, new character models will help. I read somewhere that those new models have ten times more polygons on the face than the old ones. I'm refering to the models like Tyrande, Thrall, etc., that they implemented more recently.
Updated graphics wouldn't bring me to play WoW again, I haven't played in years now. The reason I quit was the game has just aged as a game. It got so tiring and felt like a chore to log in to do dailies/raids/arenas/farm stuff for those things, all to have to do it all over again when a new expansion came out. I guess the whole pvp/pve gear grind has run its course for me, I can never go back to playing a game where just having the best gear means winning or losing no matter what the persons skill is. Having been in top arena teams and top raiding guilds, I just couldn't do it again.
Wow is a good game and I enjoyed some of the years playing it, it's just not the game for me.
Hate to tell ya... but as a long-time mmo vet, this is par for the course. Every game you play will eventually become this way. Some of these new games will feel really different at first... but after the newness wears.. at their basis they are all repetitive games. It's in their nature to be. Just sayin.
I think the only way Blizzard can update their graphics engine is very gradually like how they've been doing it so far. To make this game have Tera graphics from night to morning is possible for them, but they would loose a big chunck of their subscribers who cannot run such graphical levels. And if they were to give us the option of "Big Graphics" or "Small Graphics" they would have to maintain two graphics engines, which is more hassle than it's worth.
Even so, new character models will help. I read somewhere that those new models have ten times more polygons on the face than the old ones. I'm refering to the models like Tyrande, Thrall, etc., that they implemented more recently.
Good post! I've been saying this forever. One of the largest factors in my opinion to WoW's success has been the min. system requirements while still looking good (stylized). I have family members playing this game on 6 year old computers and laptops. It doesn't look as good as it does on my PC, but it runs, pretty well actually.
Blizzarrd did say that they have found a new way to display textures without taking as large of a hit on performence, which will be implimented in MoP. New lighting and shadows help the game look a little more current and still run damn well. I think they're doing all right.
if Blizz was to reskin WoW with the lates graphics i would be willing to buy the whole game again, buy all the exapansions and sub to it. the second biggest problem i had with WoW (after the treadmill gear grind that was end game) when i left was the horredoulsy outdated cartoony graphics. i just could not stand looking a those 10 years old graphics anymore.
i will never understand why Blizz chose never to have "platinum edition" with next generation graphics for those that had the rigs to run it.
completly over hauling a graphics engine isnt as simple as that.
The only mmo I know thats ever done it is Eve, and thats taken some 3 years of gradual implementation.
But I agree with your sentiments, CCP (Eve developer) has a paultry 300k subs, Blizzard should have the resources to do it. But while they have 10mil subs and no sign of people leaving then they probably take the stance "why should we?"
But its not just the graphics quality, the graphics STYLE in Tera is radically different too, its very adult.
Everquest over hauled their graphics way before EVE was released. Not sure how long it took on the back end but it was part of an Expansion that it updated teh graphics overnight.
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Graphic is not at all so crappy but i would like to see atleast something like Tera graphic. Maybe is that game crappy for you but believe me if you spend few years in this game it is like cyber drug and every other game just looks so empty. Now when i came back i enjoy flying on my mounts and listen sounds of lands. I do explore this huge world again and that is just a little part what wow have to offer
Hmmm... you are either trolling or you have not played nor looked at any videos of Tera (if you hated the style then you did not convey that with your comment). Graphics are some of the best I have seen in an MMO. The combat also works as intended. I have no problems dodging/evading and attacking. I probably won't play TERA after another month or two, but that is because I am one of those A.D.D. gamers who can't seem to stick with a game.
Regardless, I suggest you actually look at, or play the game before commenting.
Sorry dude but this is your opinion. I think that wow pvp is best what we have in classic style mmorpg. If you think it is dumbed down try to find a partner and win against top teams in arena. It is all about skill and to know each of classes to be able to counter attacks. In arena tournaments all players have top end gear and if is gear only about wining we would not have almost all the time same teams at the top. My friend for example was so bad in wow pvp and he did won maybe 5% of duels and now in swtor he rocks with Marauder because he don't need so much skill to play just raw power. In fact Blizzard is the only one in mmorpg who gives a lot of money to winers on tournaments
True for sure. It is best graphic i saw in any mmo.Tera world is amazing
I just wish the game was more open like all the posts stated it was. I still find myself in constricted areas (ie; big hills/mountains forcing you into a corridor). But I am only level 15 so far, so I am hoping it is jus tthe area I am in. I also wish the PvP was a bit more hardcore. I think the punishment is a bit much. And no, I am not a ganker/griefer. I'm usually the one getting ganked.
I"ve never heard graphics as a reason people stop or start playing wow, . If thats your end all factor, look atthe pretty pictures.
they don't even need to upgrade the textures, just get better shaders and add some normal maps and the game will look pretty damn modern
Upgrade your system if you think that game looks bad... I mean really, I have played everything and the graphics and animation in Tera still have me amazed at times. And as good as it looks, it runs perfectly for me, which shocks me more.
As far as the combat, that's your opinion as it's obvious you hate the game. My bet would be that you never played and are just jumping on the hate wagon. in my opinion, the combat in Tera has made just killing mobs fun again. Of course, I like WoW also.
I agree completely, as I just wrote on his post before I saw this...lol. Like or hate Tera, it looks ridiculous! I'm having fun in there now and just hope that the PvP works out and gives me a reason to do it other then, just killing everyone I see who's not me.
Updated graphics wouldn't bring me to play WoW again, I haven't played in years now. The reason I quit was the game has just aged as a game. It got so tiring and felt like a chore to log in to do dailies/raids/arenas/farm stuff for those things, all to have to do it all over again when a new expansion came out. I guess the whole pvp/pve gear grind has run its course for me, I can never go back to playing a game where just having the best gear means winning or losing no matter what the persons skill is. Having been in top arena teams and top raiding guilds, I just couldn't do it again.
Wow is a good game and I enjoyed some of the years playing it, it's just not the game for me.
What happens when you log off your characters????.....
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Blizzard has never been good with state of the art visuals so don't hold your breath that WoW 2 or whatever MMORPG they are going to produce next will have it.
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Can't believe people are still talking about this dried up game / developer after this long. With TERA, GW2, TSW, and FFXIV 2.0, WoW won't be able to keep up. Not because Blizzard can't keep up with these companies, but because they choose not to. (Working on other projects).
Nothing you say from here on out can be taken seriously.
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This mythical "Titan" will likely be the answer to your wantings OP.
I don't think WoW should change their graphics. It would be nice to see them using high res textures in more places though. The style is very important to WoW and that engine captures it well.
Play for fun. Play to win. Play for perfection. Play with friends. Play in another world. Why do you play?
Have you played Age of Conan on maxed graphics? Nothing currently on the market can even touch it. And, I prefer the combat in AoC as well. If AoC had a "truly free" F2P model, I think it would be more popular than it currently is.
I would probably never have stopped playing WoW if the developers had cared about anything other than money. In my opinion, Blizzard stopped making great games when it turned it's focus 100% on money, much like other large companies in the industry (EA anyone?). Not to say Blizzard can't still turn out a well polished game worth the purchase price, but they certainly are a shadow of what they once were in regards to game fun factor.
Edit: Updating game graphics would be something I put under the caring about something other than money category. Only reason to spend money on overhauling graphics is because you care about the quality of the game.
Only if it was Vanilla WOW before BGs killed Open World PvP and it was GW2 or Skyrim Graphics not TERA kiddie graphics.
Huh? Is this post real life?
They chose not to? Have you heard of Mist of Pandaria? You can think what you'd like, but people will be back in droves for this game. Mark my words. Everyone always says they're not coming back, but they always do.
Also, this "dried up" game you speak of still have more active paying subs then any game out by far. I'm not playing it at the moment, but I'm also not gonna act like I won't be back. I'm not a hypocrite.
I think the only way Blizzard can update their graphics engine is very gradually like how they've been doing it so far. To make this game have Tera graphics from night to morning is possible for them, but they would loose a big chunck of their subscribers who cannot run such graphical levels. And if they were to give us the option of "Big Graphics" or "Small Graphics" they would have to maintain two graphics engines, which is more hassle than it's worth.
Even so, new character models will help. I read somewhere that those new models have ten times more polygons on the face than the old ones. I'm refering to the models like Tyrande, Thrall, etc., that they implemented more recently.
Hate to tell ya... but as a long-time mmo vet, this is par for the course. Every game you play will eventually become this way. Some of these new games will feel really different at first... but after the newness wears.. at their basis they are all repetitive games. It's in their nature to be. Just sayin.
Good post! I've been saying this forever. One of the largest factors in my opinion to WoW's success has been the min. system requirements while still looking good (stylized). I have family members playing this game on 6 year old computers and laptops. It doesn't look as good as it does on my PC, but it runs, pretty well actually.
Blizzarrd did say that they have found a new way to display textures without taking as large of a hit on performence, which will be implimented in MoP. New lighting and shadows help the game look a little more current and still run damn well. I think they're doing all right.
i've said this 2 years ago.
if Blizz was to reskin WoW with the lates graphics i would be willing to buy the whole game again, buy all the exapansions and sub to it. the second biggest problem i had with WoW (after the treadmill gear grind that was end game) when i left was the horredoulsy outdated cartoony graphics. i just could not stand looking a those 10 years old graphics anymore.
i will never understand why Blizz chose never to have "platinum edition" with next generation graphics for those that had the rigs to run it.
Everquest over hauled their graphics way before EVE was released. Not sure how long it took on the back end but it was part of an Expansion that it updated teh graphics overnight.
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