No content for 1 year :)

[CStrife912]

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I mean its all subjective whether you think its a good MMO or good game...clearly a good amount of people think it is and it seems to be enough for better or worse to keep its current trajectory. Also slightly exaggerating if you left 2 expansions worth if you paid attention to everything and didn't rush through it would take much longer then that to go through but you do you. I will agree its starting to blur the line of is this an mmo or is this a big single player story you can play with friends...but its not quite there yet on either fence. Your opinion of the story failing and your opinion of other MMOs having good stories to...maybe but its all opinion..cant go swinging it round like its fact.

Now the real weird bit is character meshes in the faces have improved on some model types its clear to see, granted they said this will still improve before release. Ideally I want the hair mesh to be smoothened out if they are sticking with just HD textures for example. 14s models are more detailed then wow its a bit of an odd comparison especially when say wow chest pieces lack depth and look like painted on abs where as 14 actually has modelled armour (There are some wow bits that aren't but broadly yes they are) WoW also had its first visual overhaul much earlier on in its cycle compared to 14. There are way more assets collectively in 14 at its current point for the graphics overhaul then WoW when cataclysm came out...on top of that wow has a much larger team and budget. I will agree to an extent some modders can do better work..but some of the ones I've seen clash with the art direction of the game. Until we see raw video youtube compression streamed videos aren't the best indicator of it all.

I also predicted they would of done this anyway with 7.0 and 2.0 being the brunt of the visual work (Got to make new players or free trial players see how nice the game looks before hitting you with the HW onwards wall downgrade :P ) and then addressing expansions during patch cycles. I mean shaders, lighting, shadows, fog effects, god rays, fauna is being systematically put in to the others just actual object density, textures etc wont be touched yet (alongside npcs and gear) which makes sense. They announced this 17 months back...they do have finite resources you cant allocate all that to a visual overhaul when your making an expansion, now xbox port, reworking the foundations of the base game for the now even further extended free trial...blah blah blah.

Call it copium...white knighting...simping...I'm just thinking broadly what may be happening. Or yeah they could be half arsing it but neither of us can prove whos right.