Sunday, May 18th 2008
Blizzard Considering Major World of Warcraft Graphics Engine Update
In an interview about next expansion of WoW called Wrath of the Lich King, World of Warcraft producer J. Allen Brack said that the game will "probably" undergo a complete graphical upgrade in the future. "Will we need a graphical update from the ground up at some point? Yep, probably," he said. "That's actually something we talk about every expansion," he added. "I'm positive we'll talk about it next expansion."
"A lot of people continued to play with the original client, because it was faster, or they preferred it, or were just used to it or whatever," he said. "And so for me as a game developer, the idea that we would spend so much time and energy on something and have people go, 'meh, that's not really for me,' that's not very exciting."
Source:
Eurogamer
"A lot of people continued to play with the original client, because it was faster, or they preferred it, or were just used to it or whatever," he said. "And so for me as a game developer, the idea that we would spend so much time and energy on something and have people go, 'meh, that's not really for me,' that's not very exciting."
42 Comments on Blizzard Considering Major World of Warcraft Graphics Engine Update
Recommend reading the entire thing. ;)
As for an graphic upgrade. IMO it's not needed. WoW is a fantasy game. I DONT want realistic graphics in a fantasy game.
maybe WARHAMMER: Online will be for you :)
They have made all their games playable on most systems even the upcoming SC2 they are claiming this.
As far as EQ goes I remember friends going and getting more Ram or HD space as major updates came out, lol.
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mine you thats back when having 1gb ram was considered overkill by most gamers, and a p3 900 was considered a monster of a chip.
i have said this about mmo's before, they should offer an upgrade pack thats 100% optional to the gfx of the game, i have seen games do this.
ultima online for example offered uo3d, a fully 3d client that was play compatable with the normal client, the only problem was that support for it was suq and it ran poorly even on powerfull computers, in it never was very popular because of that, now alot of UO players complained about it when it came out because they where using old pentium1 systems or even 486's to run UO with 14.4 modems, (no joke i knew a few that still chuged along at 14.4 lol) those people where the minority of players but they where the loud winging/crying minority, they drove OSI to effectivly dump the 3d client updates, sucks because with refigning it would have/could have been great.
And ..oh noes, developers of an MMO might actually have to CODE for once.
Oh the fukking horror of it all.
~stabs self~
It's got my support. Send the carebears away.
im a little off wow atm :p its better for the casual players and people who are new to the mmo world ;p ...still a good game though
oh well :p
i played it for a bit to long though...im just bored of it :p
Im an OLD mmo player, Ultima Online was my firts,then some ragnarok and others, honestly UO was the only one i didnt get totaly sick of, because in UO theres so much to do that no matter how long you play, you will alwase have something new to work on mastering, be it cooking, alchemy, fishing, magery, slew of wepon skills to work up, carpentry, mining, lumber jacking, tailoring, sheering, it goes on and on and on and on, and theres no leveling bs, your charictor is what you make of it thru pure work, the more you use a skill, the better you get at that skill.
WoW is fun on privat servers, to me the pay servers just get to boring trying to level.....
Once wcell is avalable for use I will be working with a few friends to build a version of wow's game play thats a bit more advanced and less restrictive then what you see on the current pay and privat servers.
we all are intrested to see if we can re-create most of what UO offers but using WOW as the client, i know building houses wont happen, but being able to bult a charictor 100% based on your own effort will be fun, :)
i was leveling a warrior orc...got bored ans being a warrior is boring for me...tried a blood elf mage...then got banned from wow...the unbanned.. i cant be bothered to play again :p