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Originally posted by Poloboy
They're trying to show off the eye candy at E3 though. The appeal is that if you're in a regular group you can have all of the options turned on and enjoy the work they put into it. If you're in a raid, sure you need to turn graphics options down, but the gameplay environment of a raid is completely different and makes up for the lack of eye candy. SOE offers you awe-inspiring graphics in everyday encounters with more advanced game mechanics than WoW, or, during raids, lesser graphics more on par with WoW graphics, but gameplay unparalleled by anything.
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Eh, in what way has SOE ever proven itself to be able to provide "unparalleled gameplay?" Everquest was a bore. Every expansion after Velious was just time-sink on top of time-sink. Planetside was a horribly laggy bore. From what I hear from EQ vets, SWG is an incomplete bore. How do you expect a company with this sort of track-record to suddenly learn what makes good gameplay, and not just slap in time-sinks in order to milk more money out of its customers?
If you check out Blizzard's previous games (and don't even bother with mentioning Diablo, that wasn't even Blizzard as it exists today), they are fun and graphically impressive at the time of release. I don't see how anyone can think that SOE has a better chance of making a fun and engaging mmorpg than Blizzard. SOE may have "experience" but it obviously has not paid off for them at all in their post-EQ games.