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Gnulpie
Minmatar
Miner Tech
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Posted - 2009.01.16 16:12:00 -
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Why did I start playing Eve?
Because it had insane beautiful graphics and really reasonable hardware requirements for that. Since then I got more and more impressed by the gameplay (little I did know when I started playing...) but still.
Is CCP now that mainstream already that they jump the bandwaggon and just throw the best available hardware at the problem to generate great graphics instead of good work? Comparing the graphics of other games, Eve is really really falling behind - sorry to say. No innovative approach used here, not to mention developed. Where are the backgrounds based on fractals? Where are the procedurally generated textures of planets? Where are the automatically generated individual storylines? Hell - even the in-game mail client is still absolutely crappy. And and and
So ... enough of that ranting 
Just laughable. As soon as it is looking well for CCP (StacklessIO, Eve64 etc.) they are going berserk and shoot themselves into the foot. You can count on that, always. I wonder why.
Increasing the minimum requirements by 2 shader generations within 9 months in the time of worldwide recession/depression is beyond and serious comment. Who in their right mind would do such a thing? Who would even CONSIDER that??!
And 50 days before the biggest expansion they just mention the need for shader model 2 in a devblog which most of the people won't read? What sort of communication and community service is that?!
I can understand that CCP wants to reduce the workload on their staff and therefore want to discontiune sm1 stuff - even though they would annoy a lot of people. And really ... announcing the impossibility of playing Eve for lots of laptop players (3% is absolutely not the right number as explained in many posts already) just a few weeks prior is absolutely bad style! Hiding that fact in an obscure devblog is even worse. Such an important fact needs to be at login-screen for many days in big letters!
And to discontinue sm2? That is pure comedy - who has ever heard that a successful company forces their long term subscribers to stop playing and still stay successful? This will go ill for CCP if they really implement their considerations of discontinuing sm2.
What is better? To lose a big part of the old, loyal and most dedicated community or to slow down development by a few paces and gear down the overdrive? For me the answer is obvious. For CCP also? |
Gnulpie
Minmatar
Miner Tech
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Posted - 2009.01.16 16:35:00 -
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 Originally by: zombu2
admitt your computers are crap and do something about it invest the 50 bucks
Please tell me where I can get a new laptop for $50. Thanks.
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Gnulpie
Minmatar
Miner Tech
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Posted - 2009.01.17 15:24:00 -
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Originally by: Una D
Graphics sells **** to idiots (consolers, wowers and similar low intelligence life). EVE sells due to it being an unique game. If shiny is only thing you have than it's game over.
So very true!!
If good graphics is the only reason to play Eve, then Eve is dead. It is the GAMEPLAY which counts ffs!!!
I care a sh!t about graphics, most Eve players do, they play Eve because of its overwhelming great gameplay!
But yeah ... if you want to become mainstream and catch in tons of n00bs who then graphics is the way and gameplay becomes unimportant.
By the way, when will we have micro-transactions in Eve? Tons of more money to earn there CCP and it is almost mainstream already also.
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