Coprolaliac
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Posted - 2007.12.10 12:38:00 -
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Congrats on the biggest yet expansion, and I do hope the mood at the office is sullen or grim about disgraceful condition you launched it... ...and you were showing promise with the last releases.
Mechanics-wise I am seeming changes that promote your commitment-to-a-fight filosophy, which make me warm and fuzzy inside, then there are ofcourse number of other changes that I don't really know how to take (yet). Time will tell how they serve the game, not my subjective speculation. Despite the loud ruckus in forums, I don't see any such that would make me tear my tunic and sprinkle ashes over myself.
New ships are (still) interesting, althou I am inclined to think that they (BS'es) may be pre-nerfed too far, and I see why some people say that for a ship of their price, they should show some more potential. But again, little time will tell, if they exceed their apparent potential.
What comes to the graphics, I think I understand more than well why it is imperative for Eve to get modernised graphics, as so much of the income comes from new suscriptions, and since the average "lifespan" of a subscription is (in my opinion) so short. You would attract less and less new customers with ever aging graphics. Heck, even I was drawn to Eve in my first days because of the graphics alone(!) - the game crashed on me several times an hour (in the first few minutes of tutorial too, which was not restartable at the time). So while I didn't even know how to warp for the first evening, I stayed, and overcame... A good, or even mandatory, move from CCP.
Personally thou, I will be postponing my personal graphics upgrade to premium due to the crazy glitching. The release is blatantly obviously premature, but I'm sure you get it hammered down by next summer. Who knows, maybe we'll finally have darker backdrops too by that time.
Finally, what suprised me was the apparent lack of performance increase. At best it is negliable (ca. 3% more fps). I was under the assumption that it would be significant given that whopping load of the processing would now be done by the GFX chip...
Good expansion. My only real critism goes out to QA and/or management for making the decision to release prematurely. ...althou I have no suggestions on how to handle masses of raging forum monkeys screaming it being late.
Perhaps the next release has more limited scope and is easier to get into shape in time. Good luck with the next one, already.
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