Monk Girl
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Posted - 2009.01.29 05:40:00 -
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Well, I have to confess that I have not had a hand in the decision (because I did not comment).
However, most of the complaints from people all seem to be in regards to 5/6 year old computers.
Tell me dear chaps, how long do you want eve to support your laptop/desktops graphics?, another 5 years perhaps? This is not realistic, and to date I think CCP have done a very nice job of keeping Eve client side quite light. However it is now getting developer heavy, thus the required hardware has to be revisited.
I am not surprised by this, and I am sure many of you whilst griping and quite possibly in full knowledge that it will impact your gaming experience will understand that it is a market necessity. In a couple or years time (or less) I suspect shader 2.0 will also be out the door on its arse. If they forced you into Shader 3.0 graphics territory, which is PC's from around 18 months old then yes I could see the issue, however we are not. I do accept however that with the world market going into melt down most large firms will not be recycling there PC's quite as soon as before (thus providing access to cheap 2.0 PC's).
Does this make me a CCP fanboy?, well I hope not because things like the walking around station's thing sux imo, and I would rather see skill queing, and new ship models for the 30 variations of 1 ship (like the Marauders, did they really need to use the same base model? - Yawn). There are many things I would like to grip about, but not this.
And as sombody did point out, new PC's costing sub ú300 for netbooks can run SM2.0 so finding a ú100 or less second hand PC will not kill you, or your could bring forward the upgrade of your main PC should you be using it primarly for an alt. In some cases a simple graphics card upgrade (for you PC owners) will cost you about ú15 and is quite easy to do.
On a different topic, I suspect XP only has about 2-3 years of support from CCP tops, and will soon be lite version only.
And I agree with the other chap, Premium and Premium Lite is a stupid idea. Eve Premium & Eve Lite makes more sense.
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