Update the graphics

Asfer - Heavens Tear

Like another popular P2P MMO, I think PWE should revisit old content and improve it. For example: The textures in most places are far too blurry and low quality. Old quests should be revised. Quests should be more varied, I mean I am sick and tired of flying to another place to grind and then find out I have to do it again. I would really like escort missions and such. Sound should also be improved new sound effects (especially the walking sound effect), and the music I am sick and tired of hearing the same tracks in non Tideborn areas.. You can't expect PWI to be popular if you have monotonous missions, outdated textures (from 2005!), and poor sound effects.

Michael_Dark - Lost City

PWI as it sits is 3.5-4gb on someone's hard drive.

I'd really like them to update it as well, but increasing textures, adding more sounds, changing the repeated use of monsters throughout the game... would cost far more than it would be worth to an old and dated game. It would really increase the download size of the game.

I'd like them to do that, but it wouldn't make solid business sense. After all, this game is really only about money.

Kupuntu - Sanctuary

I think the mobs and the overall world map is the reason why PWI looks so nice. Make it look like that bad FPS game that took place "underwater" and I'm gone for good. MMOs aren't supposed to look too polished.

Anjiru - Sanctuary

Wait, isn't that what Forsaken World is for?b:chuckle
b:avoid

Airyll - Dreamweaver

I have to agree that many parts of PWI are outdated when it comes to certain textures, quests and a few other aspects of the game. But, from a business standpoint and as Michael has said, PWI is the cash cow of the company, and it would be wasteful to spend so much money making an already large game larger, to improve it when it's already doing relatively well.

The music also isn't really as much as an issue. It used to be you could actually change in-game music by replacing the files, but recently the client files were edited and the music's now locked away, unchangeable without messing around with files you aren't allowed to and earning yourself a ban. You can, however, still turn the music off completely and just play your own soundtrack or whatever in the background. Bit of a null and void complaint in terms of the music.

The recycled mobs... well come on, people only have so much creativity. People probably wouldn't complain as much if small edits were made to colour and size. (Look how many monsters the Final Fantasy series has recycled. People don't complain about the Flans or the dragons or whatever else simply because small edits are made to the different monsters in game to make them look slightly less same-old-same-old. That's all.)

tweakz

There are 2 very good reasons they should ignore this thread:

1) They can't seem to update anything without introducing annoying bugs
2) They need to get busy and fix bugs that have been around a long time now

NightRage - Raging Tide

Why update a dying game?

Boogiepanda - Raging Tide

To make it die slower? b:sad

frankieraye

I, too, would like to see this happen in the next major update. We'll just have to wait and see what the devs do...

Ilwyn_ - Dreamweaver

frankieraye wrote: »

I, too, would like to see this happen in the next major update. We'll just have to wait and see what the devs do...

If only we weren't still scratching the mosquito bites they gave us in the last major update. La di dah.

Nowitsawn - Heavens Tear

Ilwyn_ - Dreamweaver wrote: »

If only we weren't still scratching the mosquito bites they gave us in the last major update. La di dah.

Mosquito bites? More like the black plague b:scorn

Golassic - Harshlands

frankieraye wrote: »

I, too, would like to see this happen in the next major update. We'll just have to wait and see what the devs do...

a new expansion :O?

Ranfa - Dreamweaver

PWE spending resources on improving the game? b:shocked
I'll have what you are having...

BarbHammer - Heavens Tear

Ranfa - Dreamweaver wrote: »

PWE spending resources on improving the game? b:shocked
I'll have what you are having...

I'm with you. Pass the good stuff. It has to be better than what I have to make you think that.

Xarathox - Dreamweaver

Golassic - Harshlands wrote: »

a new expansion :O?

Haha, hell no...that's too soon.

Takes PW-CN more than a year to churn out expansions, and the Tideborn expansion hasn't been out that long.

BarbHammer - Heavens Tear

Xarathox - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Haha, hell no...that's too soon.

Takes PW-CN more than a year to churn out expansions, and the Tideborn expansion hasn't been out that long.

Long enough to get the QQing over with. Though that still lingers around.

Golassic - Harshlands

Xarathox - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Haha, hell no...that's too soon.

Takes PW-CN more than a year to churn out expansions, and the Tideborn expansion hasn't been out that long.

You never know what can happen.

Aubree - Dreamweaver

Expansion is coming... that's old news. I hope they make clerics sounds better.. as of right now it's like dragging finger nails across a chalkboard.

Ilwyn_ - Dreamweaver

Nowitsawn - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Mosquito bites? More like the black plague b:scorn

Actually, Ebola would be more like it.

BarbHammer - Heavens Tear

Nowitsawn - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Mosquito bites? More like the black plague b:scorn

Ilwyn_ - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Actually, Ebola would be more like it.

Both good choices.

Kupuntu - Sanctuary

I can't wait to see a "Perfect Candy Land".

Xarathox - Dreamweaver

Ilwyn_ - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Actually, Ebola would be more like it.

Black Plague is worse than Ebola. Not only did it take 30%-60% of Europe's population, but it's one of the oldest viruses known to humans (having been around about 10,000 years or more).

Azura - Lost City

Asfer - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Like another popular P2P MMO, I think PWE should revisit old content and improve it. For example: The textures in most places are far too blurry and low quality. Old quests should be revised. Quests should be more varied, I mean I am sick and tired of flying to another place to grind and then find out I have to do it again. I would really like escort missions and such. Sound should also be improved new sound effects (especially the walking sound effect), and the music I am sick and tired of hearing the same tracks in non Tideborn areas.. You can't expect PWI to be popular if you have monotonous missions, outdated textures (from 2005!), and poor sound effects.

Dude, they can't even fix century old bugs. Just walk away and find a better game.

Olba - Sanctuary

Xarathox - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Haha, hell no...that's too soon.

Takes PW-CN more than a year to churn out expansions, and the Tideborn expansion hasn't been out that long.

And there's still a lot of it that could be said to be broken. The Psychic debuffs, no 92 TB skillbooks...

BarbHammer - Heavens Tear

Kupuntu - Sanctuary wrote: »

I can't wait to see a "Perfect Candy Land".

A stoner's paradise

MystiMonk - Sanctuary

There are MMOs older than PWI with older graphics that still look good.

Boogiepanda - Raging Tide

PW's graphics aren't even bad lol. You just gotta turn all the details up.

Darksylph - Heavens Tear

Xarathox - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Black Plague is worse than Ebola. Not only did it take 30%-60% of Europe's population, but it's one of the oldest viruses known to humans (having been around about 10,000 years or more).

You have to consider the time in which it existed, prior to anti-biotics. Ebola is a much more viscious desease while black plague can be stopped with a couple doeses of penecillin.

Paramedic - Dreamweaver

they really could 'update' pwi and add some new content

instead of pumping all money they earn to develop another failing game every 4 months b:lipcurl

Yukkuri - Heavens Tear

Asfer - Heavens Tear wrote: »

........... The textures in most places are far too blurry and low quality. ................ Sound should also be improved new sound effects (especially the walking sound effect), and the music I am sick and tired of hearing the same tracks in non Tideborn areas.

Texture: True, there are many that aren't well detailed. (I'd improved details for barbs).
Sound: Well... I can't really complain here. Sound effects I only find useful to hear from where an enemy is.

Music: There's a reason I left an extra line for this part. Just like the OP, that SAME TRACK OVER AND OVER. Not only that, but the lack of gap-less loop throws me off. Aditionally, loading the same track when entering an area with the same music.

There are details in which I can expand on, but then I'd just highjack the thread. (more)

frankieraye wrote: »

I, too, would like to see this happen in the next major update. We'll just have to wait and see what the devs do...

Personally, instead of more content it would be better to update the game itself. I'd say update the game engine, but I don't think that's the right wording... The game, as is, runs very poorly. With a 1 GB video card, the game gets an average of 20-30 fps on the world map (no people around). Even though I'm using Anti Alias, if I turn it off I only get a few more fps (less than 10).

[put bugfixes here]

Xarathox - Dreamweaver

Darksylph - Heavens Tear wrote: »

You have to consider the time in which it existed, prior to anti-biotics. Ebola is a much more viscious desease while black plague can be stopped with a couple doeses of penecillin.

And like I said, the Plague's been around far longer. Archeologists have documented cases of entire regions getting wiped out long before penecillin was invented....even before the major cases of it in 1300 a.d europe.