Amy Tiels
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Posted - 2009.01.14 18:50:00 -
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Right now I am running a geforce 4200, an athalon proccessor, and 1.5 gig ram on my main computer.. my other computer runs just UNDER minimums but still runs clasic. if we force the player base to upgrade to clasic lite, then we will screw many of them out of eve. I cant even afford the money to fill my gas tank, let alone buy a new GFX card or upgrade more. and forget replacing the laptop. the econemy is horrid in the real world and it is even transfering to eve... less people playing already so the econemy in game is starting to fall off from the decreased demand. If you want premium lite, then great.. release premium lite... just dont kill classic.. leave lite as a third option for people with mid grade systems.. I already have to turn off most effects in missions or I lag out. lite would kill the game for me. if lite is such a help for CCP, then give me 3 months free so I can save up and upgrade my GFX card. then you can save money by NOT losing me... lose 3 months of my time and keep the next few years untill you screw us over again with another mandatory upgrade that I cant afford, or just lose me because you moved past what I can afford. I have recommended my friends to play eve because it doesnt require much for GFX or even internet connection. forcing everyone to upgrade their hardware will ensure one thing.. those with money RL will rule eve.. they will buy isk from GTC selling, they will have the hardware to run massive fleets to move through and conquer everything, and those of use that are struggling to scratcdh by IRL will wind up lagged out the second they try to run a lvl1 mission and easily get over run anytime they go into lowsec or nillsec. keep eve fun for those of us that play. let us see more of the game then a slide show. so what if my ship looks like ****. atleast I can fly the damn thing. upgrading the game's GFX will just ensure the gameplay experiance suffers. some people that can play classic at max GFX may be reduced to lesser frame rates and lesser resolutions to run lite and so they will suffer too. increased GFX only means increased strain. this is more then just a comment, this is an open plea.. the players begging you, dont take the game away from us.. dont make eve a game just for those that can afford better systems... what's next after that.. making Vista the only supported OS? then you would lose 50% of your players because no one uses that crap, and it takes such a powerfull computer no one can afford the hardware... step back and look around you. what do you run? how much does it cost to buy it? now look at what your players run.. put a button in the next release of eve to collect and send you the system info for every player who logs in.. make it mandatory to send in the info before you can log in.. hell, make the client do it automaticly on log in.. then look at it.. see what everyone runs... how many players run crappy systems...you can assume that alot of players who run GTCs cant even afford to pay for their account and so will not be able to upgrade computers to run eve. releasing lite would be suicide.. look at what happened when SOE released the "combat upgrade" and the "new game experiance" for star wars galaxies... well over 50% of the players left. they tried to make the game look flashier and make the combat system simpler... in the end they made a mix of WoW and o****er strike and everyone hated it. you are on the same road.. lite will only force people to quit eve from lack of hardware to run it. mabey you all have stock in ATI or Nvidia, but many of us can bearly afford to live because of the econemy IRL. I cant afford luxeries like a new GFX card. I am TRYING to save up to buy myself a whole new computer... but that wont be for atleast a year. mabey two. You should feel pretty good about yourselfs now.. you have done what WoW cant.. you have forced your players to BEG for the right to play the game.. because you have forced us to beg you not to change it so that we CANT. |