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MMO players blast "disgusting" $90 early access charge for WoW: The War Within - "We must say early and loudly that this is not okay" (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] jcdenton@lemy.lol 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Why do mmo's always have the best trailers but the shittiest graphics?

[–] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So it's more accessible. You don't need to upgrade your PC regularly to play an MMO.

Beyond that, WoW is very stylized, and it's far from ugly. No, it's not realistic looking, but it is nice looking.

[–] jcdenton@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago

You know what age is beautiful stylized and can run on anything? The greatest game every made Deus Ex

[–] tilgare@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if you have checked out WoW lately, but it's actually a pretty beautiful game. I think generally they want the tech specs to be a low barrier to entry for a game where they want millions of players playing concurrently. It also cannot be super heavy or things like raids and battlegrounds would chug.

[–] medgremlin@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One thing that Blizzard has always been good about it making games that can run on a potato. It'll look like crap and your view distance will be obnoxiously short, but you can run WoW on a potato of a laptop and still participate in the core gameplay. Obviously, there's lots of options to crank up the graphics to 11/10 if you have a powerful computer, but I really appreciate that they lower the hardware barrier to entry where they can.

[–] PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Not always. D2 necromancers used to be shunned if they summoned in full games

[–] qwertyWarlord@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

For hype, obviously. WoW has literally done that since day 1, blizzard has done it for decades now.