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grape
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That could go on another 5 years if they could do a graphics engine upgrade.
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For a 5 year old game,i'll think the graphic is quite good
And for the record get over it,AO will not get a new graphic engine the first 2 years.Since they upgraded the texture a few months back
You call this "milking a game to death"?When thousens of people still enjoy AO,for it's deep engaging gameplay rather then complain of it's lack of pixel.Gameplay before graphic anytime
And not everybody is graphic whores
MMORPG's are visualy interactive games. If your not currently trying to improve the art and graphics then your milking your game and have no goals for long term growth. Why bother with graphics all together if your concern is only gameplay?
Look at UO for an example. The graphic engine of UO is older than I bet some of their subscribers. They milking that one? You bet.
You call this "milking a game to death"?When thousens of people still enjoy AO,for it's deep engaging gameplay rather then complain of it's lack of pixel.Gameplay before graphic anytime
And not everybody is graphic whores
If they did a graphics upgrade and a good one I would probably start playing this game again. I know graphics aren't everything but AO's graphics were always very ugly to me and really turned me off from playing it. I could never get into it because of that.
- Scaris
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So what you basically mean's is they should upgrade UO to a 3D engine and AO to EQ2 standard.I will let in to a secret,graphic upgrading cost money,it probably will cost more then income will cover.So why should they upgrade just because some graphic whores whine?Specially when they have a loyal player base that's happy with what they got
And for what i have noticed,most of the graphic whiner's is froob's,that's not even pay for the game!!
Everytime I zone in this game I usaully lag spike (this is esepcially true in Shadowlands where I'll be in a perma lagspike for about 20 secs while all the zone loads, and even then I'll still get a fair bit of choppiness once that 20-30 second bit is over with). At Borealis on RK2 it's very diffuclt to head to grid without having the screen completely free and have a new picture every 4-5 seconds for about half a minute before everything finally catches up.
Pande Raids and Tara are also hell in my opinion. The game can run pretty smoothly in some cases but in my opinion there's ALOT of choppiness that betetr graphics would only add to.
Everytime I zone in this game I usaully lag spike (this is esepcially true in Shadowlands where I'll be in a perma lagspike for about 20 secs while all the zone loads, and even then I'll still get a fair bit of choppiness once that 20-30 second bit is over with). At Borealis on RK2 it's very diffuclt to head to grid without having the screen completely free and have a new picture every 4-5 seconds for about half a minute before everything finally catches up.
Pande Raids and Tara are also hell in my opinion. The game can run pretty smoothly in some cases but in my opinion there's ALOT of choppiness that betetr graphics would only add to.
So true
While i did enjoy playing AO, it got boring quite fast. There isnt many interesting places, and by that i mean all the dungeons are very much alike the next one, towns are deserted except few "hot spots" and exploring with a lowbie character? Dont bother. More importantly, AO is level based and i really think that doesnt work very well in mmoprgs. Add instanced missions (i hate instances with passion) and AO definetly isnt for me.
Saying that, AO isnt a bad game, not by far. It has kewl, complex skills, some very unique features (the Grid for example) and pvp isnt horrible (but not good either) and grouping made even missions semi-fun.
The point of my rant is, i dont think updating graphs would be enough to "save AO". Make it skill based, zoneless, use instances only when its absolutely necessary, combat less item dependent and for the love of all that is holy, KILL ALL ROLLERRATS!!!
Mind you, i only played as a fr00bie and while i did play many classes, i never played any of them to very high lvl. So, i dunno, maybe p2p is much better.
i totally agree, willow, what kind of internet connection do u have, how much ram and what kind of graphics card, its not the game thats running un-smoothly, its u....i barely have lag except in the busyiest places and i dont have a high end comp either, just a broadband internet connection, nvidia geforce 6600 and 1 gig of ram :
I know plenty Of people with realy nice computer and this games dosnt run very well on them. Maybe you guys are lucky and dont get lag but i dont think having a nice comp has alot to do with it
They will not make graphic engine upgrade.. and thats sad because this game is great. I dont want to see LE mech battles with current engine NW is laggy enough.
Current graphic engine: more ram > better graphic card.
Do you guys realise that when a compagny buy a graphic engine, it will cost them as much to upgrade a current game than to start a new game from scratch?
Why would they spend like 2 million$ for a new graphic engine, or tons of time coding a beter one, when they could make an AO2 with a new graphic engine? Code it from scratch, learn from past mistaked, improve what they have, make more worlds etc...
Than people playing 1st one would most likely buy the AO2 box for like 49$ per copy, than P2P and maybe they could make 15$ for AO2, 20$ for both game acces pass. What this does it basicly you get less stress on each server because ppl still play, and pay for the 1st game.
That would also bring a massive new player influx, having them hire more staff (gm, coder, artist etc.) and spend a lot of money, funcom is not blizzard and they have to be carefull about decision... If they spent 3 millions making AO2, and the game was a flop... they would go bankrupt as a compagny killing both AO and AO2 at same time.
I can certainly agree with people who would like to see a graphics upgrade... but it isn't a game-breaker for me. I did want to point out that a graphics upgrade IS possible, though. If Mythic can do it with DAoC, then surely Funcom could do it with AO. I know the Camelot graphics still aren't top of the line, but they are better than they were at launch by a long shot. That said... I am still playing AO and not DAoC... graphics certainly aren't everything. I also believe that with AoC in production and about a year out, there will never be a graphics engine update to AO.
The comments i have issues with are the ones with people calling the game buggy, or saying it generally runs bad. It runs fine for me, i can even run two instances of the game on my machine without any issues. It does have the occasional bit of lag in populated areas... like around RBB... but it has never been a real problem for me. I guess having played SWG for a few years, just about any game seems bug-free in comparison.
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