Quote Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah View Post
I think so. However, it is necessary. Otherwise, and it pains me to say this, but they will have too tough of a time working around the limitations.

Just look at them struggling to implement simple things to the UI. They seem to be proud to announce that soon all three action bars will be visible... simultaneously. months of work and they're finally close to the goal!

Goddayum.
I fully support your main idea that the game needs to run better net-wise so that it can actually be played properly without lag. I'm one of the many people who "liked" your post for it.

But the idea that it has anything to do with the graphics engine or that the graphics engine should be "overhauled" is ridiculous. They spent years developing JUST the engine, and the entire purpose of such an engine is to be able to implement artists' work more easily into new games. To overhaul it would defeat its reason for existing in the first place. If they needed to redo the graphics (which they don't) then they'd just scrap the game entirely and build a new one from scratch.

They do need to fix the net code and stop asking the servers for extra special confirmation on every action. We need to be able to play the game and not have up to a few seconds of lag on a regular basis. We need more streamlined UI that doesn't ask as many questions as it does, or require scrolling windows where they're unnecessary. But the graphics engine does not need to be overhauled to accomplish this, nor would it even be remotely feasible to spend time and money on at this point, in what is already the best looking MMO around.