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and?

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Over your head, I guess.

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Dell XPS Generation 4 Gaming System
Windows XP MCE (19" LCD Wide screen)
Intel Pentium 4 Processor (3.6GHz)
NVIDIA e-GeForce 8600 GT (256mb DDR3)
1GB RAM, 450GB HD Space

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Why would you brag about such a substandard rig?

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according to 3dmark, and extensive testing...the latest game out Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Crysis, my systems setup is way better than needed....hence I play almost every game I own on MAX settings and usually run between 60-80fps

laugh @ you.

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I bet you enjoy those max graphics at 800x600 res and without AA.

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Gaming is a hobby, much like knitting. It's pretty inexpensive to enjoy it immensely. You don't need platimun-fibre cloth in order to have a good time.

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No, you certainly dont...but the above poster is whining about WoW's requirements....which are a complete joke with the hardware available now.....(not the OP, the guy who said blizzard would lose half its customers)

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according to 3dmark, and extensive testing...the latest game out Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Crysis, my systems setup is way better than needed....hence I play almost every game I own on MAX settings and usually run between 60-80fps

laugh @ you.

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And you named your character after a computer peripheral manufacturer.

laugh @ you

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I bet you enjoy those max graphics at 800x600 res and without AA.

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I actually play on 1280 x 768 sometimes 1280 x 1024.....next?

Name a company that's been able to give a game "bleeding edge" graphics while maintaining playability for people on low end machines (i.e.; a goodly chunk of WoW and single player non-fps game players).

The answer will likely be "None".

The amount of texture and graphics sets that need to be delivered for a wider range of system compatibilities, let alone rendering processes, client-side, would make a wide-reaching game with high end graphics nigh-on unwieldy to distribute, let alone patch.

Blizzard took the low to mid end. With their choice, they can appeal to the widest array of players, as a high end machine only performs more screamingly fast on games with lower requirements and recommendations. The best part of that is seen in high density raiding and pvp situations, Advantage: High End Machines.

Aside from that, I think that WoW looks just right...the way it was meant to look. They didn't diverge from the Look & Feel of Warcraft 3. This is a good thing and was yet another selling point.

The moment they start pushing up the graphics performance of the game, they will start to force some to drop their software and service. The gain would be nothing, and loss would be a bit more than mild, as high end machines can play WoW already. They wouldn't be closing the door on one market to bring in another.

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I actually play on 1280 x 768 sometimes 1280 x 1024.....next?

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Only? Seriously man, 1680x1050 or higher please before you start flashing your e-bling

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Only? Seriously man, 1680x1060 or higher please.

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No kidding... and playing anything 4:3 on a 16:9 monitor should be just cause for a bat to the skull.

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Graphics dont make the game? Without grahpics, there wouldnt be a game....we wouldnt even have computers.

I guess what you're trying to say is....you enjoy playing games like Final Fantasy with their awesome graphics huh? More power to you!

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There were PCs before there were graphics cards, there were games before graphics cards that were in many ways better than most anything you see today.
Gameplay makes a game enjoyable, snazzy graphics are just gravy.

i kind of like wow graphics

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Graphics don't make the game.

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Very true.

I thought I had a decent system, it's a couple years old, and 90% of the game I can easily play on max settings and get very high framerates. Then when I started larger groups and BGs, especially an AV turtle at the SP bottleneck, my rates plummeted really fast. I still experience some framerate choppiness on the lowest settings, tried playing on a lower resolution but everything was too pixelated and made things tough to read, tried pretty much every setting there is, and nothing really makes too much of a difference. The game never became unplayable, but as a meele class, it's frustrating when rates drop into the teens and below.

If they upped the graphics high end, most of the player base wouldn't care too much. A good chunk of us can use the high end for most things, but only a small percentage of gamers would have the system to run the game at max 100% of the time. But how much can you really polish it though? it's still just rendering simple polygons and skins, we'd never see the complex textures and detail that the trailers show, and still have a playable game. A really high end computer would take upwards of 10 minutes to fully render a single frame at that resolution and polygon count.

I like WoW's graphical style and implementation, I just wish they would fine tune it into a more cohesive product. Fixing things like the fact that female trolls don't blink, or giving more life to pre-BC charcaters models so that they match Draenei and Blood Elves would really make my day.

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Could we? Most likely so. But that would mean limiting who could play the game. We also enjoy the style that we have and while we continue to make improvements, want to be very careful in how we go about doing it so that we can allow people to play without the need of needing to do massive upgrades.

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Alternate model sets for those of us on high-end systems with substantially increased texture resolution?

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Alternate model sets for those of us on high-end systems with substantially increased texture resolution?

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Oh god, memories of everquest...