Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
If we count 1.0 the game is 8 years old and 5 years old if we start from 2.0.
I mean we could count 1.0, but then you'd have to acknowledge that the game has already gone through its major rework, albeit not one involving texture/character creation upgrades.

At which point the clock one might conceivably measure by when determining when this game would likely see a major upgrade to things like character models and such (which may take more work behind the scenes than we realize, hard to tell with us not being on the dev team) would realistically be reset...and we're back to my original point. This game as is happens to be just over 5 years old, and most MMOs that have done major character model upgrades took 8+ years (HD textures, where those have appeared, have come faster, but that is a different beast than reworking character models and changing character creation to a more significant degree).

In fact, the two I'm most familiar with - LOTRO and WoW, took about 10 years before they each managed to do it.

Of course, that's if they even decide they want to make more than minor changes over time.

As for living 3 years more if it continues this way? At no point has the lack of a character model rework ever doomed an MMO, so if that's what you're worried about you can rest easy.

Don't get me wrong, I'd like to see improvements made to character options, but I'm also being realistic about the chances of a major rework.