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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
While it's all well and good that you think that, you're absolutely wrong if you think all WoW players think that. The backlash over the 1 room raid that was ToC should tell you everything you need to know about how WoW players feel about atmosphere. People bitched endlessly about how boring MC looked. Same with AQ40. Even worse with ToC. People who play this game care ENORMOUSLY about how the environment looks, no matter how many other people they're playing with. One of the things that has really set apart the good raids from the bad is how immersive and real they've felt other than as a place to kill some mobs.
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I don't think that anyone here has said that it's how all players think. It's simple to believe that there is going to be a selection of 11M that do, and a selection of 11M that don't. To call it a backlash, means something more than just complaining, and I don't see any or have never seen any backlash. Backlash implies a lot more than just complaint, but also that something would happen to affect change by the complaint, even acknowledgment that there was some flaw or issue.
During MC most subscribers computers couldn't handle the existing polygon count. No vanity pets, no extra this or that... it was a freakin' cave. It was also no the end. Just like AQ40 was not the end, and ToC isn't the end.
TOC was probably the most imaginative in the circles and articles that I've read because no one expected that line of the story to unfold. Not only that but the idea that there were no trashmobs, just boss after boss after boss was pretty different after playing Naxx for 6 months.
And that's what I think the NEXT game would require. The benefit of scaling up and down for the user base that it wants to have. Not everyone wants to have powerful computers with next gen vid cards to see the beauty of the game. Some just want the game play. Some what the lore. Others want the combination. Some want the hardcore experience, others want the ability to have the experience without the timesink.
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