Quote Originally Posted by Jennestia View Post
It's funny people always point immediately at console limitations yet can never give a proper argument as to why PC only MMOs still look like something a graduate student whipped up in his spare time.
Because it's the norm to take the easy way out, even if many are quick to shout out, "Not I!"

Graphics developers need to cater to the lowest common denominator (in this case, the dirt cheap hamster farms some people like to call a computer), and it's much easier to force everyone to play with crappy, plastic looking jagged edged graphics than to make a decent graphics slider that, at the bottom, has settings even my grandmother's computer could run, and at the top, has ones that put my rig to the test.

If everyone could afford and had the know-how to put together at least a decent gaming rig, and developers didn't mind taking the time to make amazingly detailed games instead of just pushing out something that looks, as you put it, like a graduate student whipped up in his spare time (despite knowing that you'll pay for the worse looking version anyway) we wouldn't have these issues, but alas that is not the case.