Perfect World 2

Depends on the management.

Under current management? **** that noise. Wouldn't touch it with a 20 foot pole.

If they shaped up and started treating things more like they did back in 08/09? Sure, I'd enjoy the heck outta that.

SHIMBERLY - Heavens Tear wrote: »

^^ +1000000

due to this game ill never play another pwe made game.And most are cookie cutter toons with no customizations.

Always thought that was so weird.
PWI's customization is amazing; all of their other games are full of the ugliest, most plastic looking preset models. As my first MMO, PWI really spoiled me in that sense. I think it's also the only MMORPG they have where armor's not class-locked.

I'd prefer it to be re-made rather than made into a sequel; I think it would be great if they took more time writing the "narrative": pretty much that wraiths are bad and we should kill them I guess. They made this huge open world with an awesome aesthetic and that was the only narrative they could come up with to go with it. f:meh And the explanations for the arrivals of the new races were just stupid; "Oh yes, this huge chain of islands just appeared one day and they happen to be populated with terrifying fish people! Despite the apparent abundance of wise dudes with cryptic worldly things to say, we had no idea this would happen and we wouldn't ever cue the saviors of this universe in about it with some narrative even if we did. Also, packs. Carry on." I don't think I'd remove them from the game; I love my sin, psy, seeker and mystic buddies and while I don't personally find the latter three fun to play, they fit a lot of people's playstyles and are useful to squads in general.

Also the obvious things: more "western" f2p model, not selling power or selling it for the sake of convenience while also making it directly farmable in game, keeping the power levels down with new iterations or implementing some mechanism to scale with power so 99% of the game doesn't become obsolete, 75+ restriction on FCC, more aggressive advertising, anti-power-leveling incentives and more localization from the Chinese version (ie, PVP where it shouldn't be, low DQ nerfed, etc)

Also tamable octopi, quest writing contests & an evolution for any oddfoot pet that turns it into a superbuff pegleg penguin with machine gun arms and an eyepatch. We can call it 'Oddfoot Commando' or 'Kaiser Billhelm.'

Would be interesting to see one for this game, however with the way things are going, I probably wouldn't even bother playing it lol. Due to that, this will be my first and last mmo. b:bye

Sevchenko - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Not with this "don't care" management.

They should divide and conquer, split game dev teams and put each team working in 1 specific game. Hire MORE developers and make each and every game good, instead of favoring the newest games and **** oldest ones.

The games do have separate dev teams.

PWE over here? They're the publishers, not developers. The development isn't the problem with how the company's been managing things. At least, not in the manner your post would imply.

Zoldi - Morai wrote: »

It depends how you define it. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think we already got PW2.

Correct this is pw2, the first version which still exists is a timed based model as ours is a micro-transaction model with an improved game engine and other things.

More info here http://www.pwrd.com/en/

make the game + sell it to another company = fun game

Never ever ever what is managed by this company consisting of inbred monkeys, by far the most mismanaged game I have played so far!

computer gaming has lost its edge over the years due to micro managing such as MMO's like this now the micro cashshop(pay to win) **** is flooding into FPS shooters..anyway to make a buck I guess.

Strife_son - Sanctuary wrote: »

Probably not, especially if this game was managed the way it currently is with the type of content we originally had when this version of the game first went live. Today's gamer does not want to spend 1 year+ trying to reach end game level, just so they can start doing end game content. Those that do enjoy that sort of thing probably aren't prominent enough to justify running an entire game for. I digress...

I'm honestly surprised that PWE or w/e the company is called is even pushing for a new MMO (Swordsman Online). This company seems to really be focused on the cash, so I'd figure they'd be better suited to developing and publishing smartphone/tablet games where they can really pump microtransactions.

Yeah so now people just get to 100 in a few weeks and just don't do endgame content at all,just dailies..so much freakin fun...

The best years of this game was 08-09,now its a bunch of alt switching,bot grinding,ToS abusing,cash shoppin hoe dawgs.

im sure this is V2 of PW may be even V3 I cant remember was a long time ago since ive looked over it all.

Neferhotep - Lost City wrote: »

I would probably play it if
- the graphics stay (i dont like the modern looks of games nowaday, they look unrealistic to me)
-the controls stay (no force to use keyboard for skills and simple moving in all directions, most new games doesnt have this anymore.)
These are the main reasons i still play PWI xD
- there will be an EU-Server
- there is a controlled Gold market
- class roles wont be messed up like ours (like some years ago without everyone being able to solo everything with r9, g16 or aps)
-No hypers till 80

Really, 08-11 were definetely better. When i think back, i had much more fun when i had my chars at 30-80 back then than i have now with several chars high-lvl. When a PW2 or PW3 manages to bring back that feeling, i would definetely play it and even put some money into it again.

Actually, they are currently in R&D designing the client to run on the upgraded AngelicaIII engine. Rumors I've been picking up state that they are updating the graphics to improve the look of the game, but as far as I've been able to tell, it's mostly just upgrading the textures to a more realistic look.

I can't imagine why they would change the control set.

Class roles are only "messed up" because just about anyone can tank anything in this game. That's less on the fault of the actual developers, and more on PWE's reqest for customization in our version to "cater" to the western market. (Which is basically make everything carebear-style.)

The Hyper issue, is again, something custom to our version. PWE supports the cash-cow instant-gratification of today's kids. I mean, look at Skyrim, BF4, and other similar games. They've been babied down to where you can't lose and there's hardly any penalty. I'd love to see some of today's kids try playing a game like Morrowind and multi-classing.

Jaabg - Sanctuary wrote: »

Just a quick off topic, i had to cheat for a few weeks to figure out how classes worked in morrowind. That game was fun kind of complex.

On topic, if they improve textures, does that mean the game will take more ram to run, or use the gpu more? Overall, will it use more resources to run, or less?

The new engine allows the client to utilize more than one CPU Core and the GPU as well.

Hyper stones themselves exist in China.

The ability to use them in Frost to skip the game, is a PWI thing... and part of why they didn't care much about "fixing" the goon glitch for so long.

I've been playing this game for about 5 years and been upgrading my hardwares from adding more ram to upgrading cpu & gpu, oh, and OS too from xp vista and win7, but none seems to have improved the performance of the game. When it lags, it'll still have that lag especially in a crowded area no matter what hardware has been upgraded, the only difference is that I can run more clients than before.

I hope the rumors are true about upgrading the game engine, it's about god damn time they do that for both performance and aesthetics. This game doesn't look bad for an 'old' game though, but could be better.

The issue I hate so much is rubber banding, I remember how smooth movement in air back then, but I guess it's sacrificed for countering fly **** / jump ****. Kiting melees in air work so perfect without the rubber banding at that time, turning on/off flyer worked so instantly I could just drop from air and timed where I want to be, with rubber banding it's kinda delayed and hard to maneuver.

freygin wrote: »

I've been playing this game for about 5 years and been upgrading my hardwares from adding more ram to upgrading cpu & gpu, oh, and OS too from xp vista and win7, but none seems to have improved the performance of the game. When it lags, it'll still have that lag especially in a crowded area no matter what hardware has been upgraded, the only difference is that I can run more clients than before.

I hope the rumors are true about upgrading the game engine, it's about god damn time they do that for both performance and aesthetics. This game doesn't look bad for an 'old' game though, but could be better.

The issue I hate so much is rubber banding, I remember how smooth movement in air back then, but I guess it's sacrificed for countering fly **** / jump ****. Kiting melees in air work so perfect without the rubber banding at that time, turning on/off flyer worked so instantly I could just drop from air and timed where I want to be, with rubber banding it's kinda delayed and hard to maneuver.

The client isn't really going to benefit from a GPU upgrade. Upgrading RAM helps, but only to the point where the client has about 1.5GB of RAM to utilize. Upgrading your OS will make your system more stable and run more efficiently, but for the aging engine of the client, you won't see a lot of difference there either. Remember, this client is based off hardware when a high-end video card had 32MB of RAM and multi-core CPU's were pretty much only seen on server applications.

If you're experiencing rubber-banding at this point, it's most likely an issue either on your PC, or with latency in the data stream between you and the server.

START HERE, and I'll be happy to help.