Yoshi.P stated that the current lowest settings for our video options is the "lowest they will ever go while still maintaining the beauty of the game", obviously I paraphrased.

Here's the deal though, when "beauty" starts to impact "performance" or even the ability to enjoy the game that becomes a major negative aspect to your product.


Shadows should NEVER NOT be able to be disabled. Right now we can only tune them down, but they're a MAJOR reason that people are having such bad video lag. Shadows, are normally one of the #1 things i disable in ANY game so my FPS stays above the micro-stutter of 40fps.

There's bump-mapping EVERYWHERE!! Even with everything on lowest possible settings I can still count the visual imperfections that the lighting system is casting on a wall (ie: i can tell a wall is made of brick, sand, mud, wood, etc). This looks beautiful, but drastically impacts performance on people with lower graphical ability.

View Distance, another HUGE factor in MMOs. Why is this not even an option??!


[Insert the 10+ odd standard gaming graphics options]

Seriously Yoshi, you guys need to learn how gaming works. Graphics options are one of the more robust things you should be providing, both UP and DOWN on the spectrum.


Speaking of higher-spectrum options, WHERE ARE OUR HQ-TEXTURES FROM 1.0?!

Yea, that's right, we had high-res textures for the same equipment we have now in 1.0, but are mysteriously lacking in 2.0.



Come on Yoshi, learn from your mistakes !!!!!