Glowing weapons

[Peregrine]

you must think getting old means being a stick in the mud. If 25-29 year olds are going to judge a product based on how how shiny it is, then they are fools. I can see someone saying they want real content and not flash, but how about real content and flash.
There is no maturity level involved, its just an opinion, you dont like sparkling stuff, if you see sparkling stuff it makes you want to leave and throw up, thats fine, but dont try to make it seem like sparkle is intrinsicly flawed or childish. You are playing an mmo, massive multi player, ideally the world should accomodate both types of people, and the game would never force you to pick one over the other. Then the people who hate sparklies could sit around hating on the sparkly people, and the sparkly people can sit around hating on the drab people, and everyone can be happy hating on each other.

There very much is a maturity level involved, by the demographic. We don't want Twilight. We make fun of Twilight. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but we're looking for a more mature MMO.

You don't look cool. You look stupid. You looking stupid impinges on our game experience. Gear doesn't have to glow and sparkle to look good. In fact, it detracts from it.

Devs probably like the idea because if the armor and weapons sparkle and glow, they don't have to spend as much time on the detail. Congrats. Throw a little smoke effect on it and you barely have to design anything.