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Blizzard Opens World of Warcraft: The War Within Beta Test Sign Ups | MMORPG.com

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited April 15 in News & Features Discussion

imageBlizzard Opens World of Warcraft: The War Within Beta Test Sign Ups | MMORPG.com

With the new expansion to World of Warcraft, The War Within, coming at some point this year, the developers have opened up beta sign ups for the Public Test Realm whenever it goes live.

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  • NeoyoshiNeoyoshi Member RarePosts: 1,450
    I wonder when this game is going to get another major graphics update that requires a GeForce RTX 4090 to play.


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  • RobokappRobokapp Member UncommonPosts: 146
    whats wrong with current graphics?
  • TalraekkTalraekk Member UncommonPosts: 290
    I mean, I could see better graphics. At the same time, it's one of the few games with a graphical style that's aged...... perfectly. Old textures and models might be poor in comparison to the here and now but the style and quality still feel..... right for the game.
    Robokapp
  • kitaradkitarad Member LegendaryPosts: 8,164
    Have to admit the art style was flawless. It never ages and yet can be updated for more definition. It's the smartest thing they did. Bet 10 years from now it will still have not aged.

  • XiaokiXiaoki Member EpicPosts: 4,036
    Blizzard slowly updates the graphics over time rather than the entire game at once.

    Every expansion Blizzard updates some old models.

    And, now with The War Within, they are also updating old texture mapping using AI.

    So, it might not get as much attention as updating the entire game at once like with FF14 but the results are still similar.
    ValdemarJ
  • AngrakhanAngrakhan Member EpicPosts: 1,750
    edited April 16

    Neoyoshi said:

    I wonder when this game is going to get another major graphics update that requires a GeForce RTX 4090 to play.



    You're going to have to help me understand what you mean by this statement. "another major graphics upgrade that requires a GeForce RTX 4090 to play" implies they already released a major graphics upgrade that requires an RTX 4090. I'm pretty sure that's not the case. Matter of fact I'm pretty sure I could fire it up on my RTX 2080 and it would play just fine. Also, considering how many people actually own an RTX 4090 (tiny percentage), such an update its unlikely to happen any time in the next decade. Part of WoW's success is the fact you can run it on a potato. I rather doubt they're going to suddenly shift directions and require an $1800 video card plus a machine to support it.
  • DattelisDattelis Member EpicPosts: 1,674
    Would be kinda hard running 10 clients with graphical fidelity like that.

  • ValdemarJValdemarJ Member RarePosts: 1,378
    Blizzard is leaving money on the table. They should be charging $500 per beta test "season" like the very successful high-fidelity game Pantheon.
    TyidalNeoyoshi
    Bring back the Naked Chicken Chalupa!
  • NeoyoshiNeoyoshi Member RarePosts: 1,450
    edited April 17

    Angrakhan said:



    Neoyoshi said:


    I wonder when this game is going to get another major graphics update that requires a GeForce RTX 4090 to play.






    You're going to have to help me understand what you mean by this statement. "another major graphics upgrade that requires a GeForce RTX 4090 to play" implies they already released a major graphics upgrade that requires an RTX 4090. I'm pretty sure that's not the case. Matter of fact I'm pretty sure I could fire it up on my RTX 2080 and it would play just fine. Also, considering how many people actually own an RTX 4090 (tiny percentage), such an update its unlikely to happen any time in the next decade. Part of WoW's success is the fact you can run it on a potato. I rather doubt they're going to suddenly shift directions and require an $1800 video card plus a machine to support it.



    Alright, so I have to apologize. That's one of my many 'waste basket comments' that just kind of come out when there is a much longer and more complicated stream of thought I'm having, and I don't have any quicker way of conveying what I want to say because it's probably really early in the morning at the time.

    Me and WoW have a bit of a love/hate relationship, and while I have very fond memories of my experiences, I was kind of spoiled by South Korean, Japanese, and Chinese video game art design very early on before WoW even came out, so going from FF11 and Lineage II to World of Warcraft was... jarring for me, but I still fell in love with WoW like most people did.

    But I kept that sort of scrutiny of the game's art design like I was wearing a backback the whole time playing WoW, and when Legion was announced and that they were going to do a major art overhaul, I was really excited, and when I saw what they came up with and what the hardware requirements looked like in contrast to what the game was going to look like, in my mind, it just didn't add up.

    Back then, though, I wasn't really thinking about just how old the engine was and that this was probably the best the developers could do with the resources they had to work with, but I always wondered what the game could have looked like if they were really given the resources they needed to truly overhaul the whole game from the ground up, instead of layering art assets on top of each other and then layering additional elements on top of that to make things look as good or as modern as they could.

    Most of my personal gripes with the art design are in the details on a lot of the armor sets and environments, especially trees, of course, started looking better as they became more stylized in expansions like Mist of Pandaria. 

    So in the comment about the RTX 4090, it's my brain not functioning properly. Brain, please tell them you are sorry.

    Brain: Sorry guys.

    That doesn't change how I feel about Warcraft's visual art design. It's not about the style, but the details, and the art just lacks details. I hope they can take advantage of whatever resources they have now that newer tools are available. Being owned by Microsoft now, I am hoping they could somehow make use of the Azure Cloud Stack and perhaps help offload some of the overhead hardware requirements and expand what the game can actually render without players feeling it so much on their physical computers.


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  • WarlyxWarlyx Member EpicPosts: 3,367
    edited April 17

    Neoyoshi said:

    I wonder when this game is going to get another major graphics update that requires a GeForce RTX 4090 to play.



    i hope never lol , wow 2 maybe , optional RTX or upgraded graphics ? yeah but required? no

    wow lives because it can be played on anything , and i hope it stays that way
    p.d
    So in the comment about the RTX 4090, it's my brain not functioning properly. Brain, please tell them you are sorry. Brain: Sorry guys.


    hahahah :)

    still salty that the 3 days early acess is only for the expensive option , it was a bad move and the reason i still havent reserved.
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