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Posted by: Borderline.9361

Borderline.9361

game doesn’t even look all that impressive graphic wise; why would it need such a high end gaming platform? looks mediocre graphics yet also runs like molasses.

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Posted by: Swordbreaker.2581

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Disagree. I think it looks beautiful on maximum settings.

Asrock X79 Extreme4 mobo / I7 3930k @ 4.7ghz / 16gb Kingston HyperX 1600mhz
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Posted by: SolarNova.1052

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Compared to what can be done i agree the graphics are not great, they r good for a MMO, but compared to other games they are ofcourse nothing to shout about. I mean it could be so much better with DX11 effects such as tessolation, true HD textures instead of repeated SD/LD textures, better AA etc.. but all that comes at a massive cost when it comes to MMO’s due to the size of the areas in question.

The graphics card required doesnt need to be that expensive tbh, I mean you can pritty much play max on a 560ti which isnt expensive ..or if u wanna try push supersampling maybe a 660ti. Again not all that expensive.

However its the cpu that NEEDS to be strong ..but again it aint all THAT expensive. A 2550k or 3570k + a good aftermarket cooler ,,then OC and your sorted. That doesnt cost all that much The CPU is around $200/£180 and a good cooler around $35/£30.

Ofcourse this is asuming your already running a 1155/6 platform. If you going form say AMD you would have to add on the price for a motherboard and possible DDR3 RAM which together would cost about $100/£100.

Worst case it would cost you $335/£310. (+ asuming u keep ur current GPU,HDD,Optical,etc) Which isnt much at all in the computer gaming world, you couldn’t even buy a top end GPU for that.

A ‘high end gaming platform’ would cost ALOT more. Somthing along the lines of 2x 670’s, 3770k, Top end mothebroard, top end water cooling, 12-32GB OC’d RAM, a BIG PSU, 512gb of SSD’s.

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Posted by: Sartori.1962

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game doesn’t even look all that impressive graphic wise; why would it need such a high end gaming platform? looks mediocre graphics yet also runs like molasses.

I disagree also, the graphics are amazing at max settings. I never understand why some people complain about this. If you want to game on a pc you need good high end hardware….this includes a monitor with either DVI or HDMI inputs.

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Posted by: alphacentari.7692

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if you run the game on all high setting the graphics are really good

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Posted by: Burner.1643

Burner.1643

Disagree, we are talking about (handcrafted) art wise mmo here.
Not some cellshaded mmo.

Full HD texture’s and dx11/tesselation/etc would be overkill for a mmo/clients.
(only benifit for dx11 would be threading/performance wise)

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