Graphics like these - Possible soon?

If that happened, I would frown. But, my forest fairy swarm would still be fluttering about. They wear anti Bristlebane charms, so they're safe.

No one is safe from Bristlebane.

And I have the scars to prove it.

Better graphics do add to the immersion and realism of the game.

And this, people, is why smart Dwarves carry nailclippers.

You assume the scars are physical.

He meant metaphysical nail clippers.

Character models need to be updated first as its the first thing you see and honestly the most important model in the entire game. Who cares if a dragon you see after 60 hours of gameplay looks neat when your own character looks like garbage.

You're not wrong!

I think I'm ready for new character models...

If they are going to do this they need to remove the older models as well otherwise it is just another model that they have to support for the long term even if they don't support new things.

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As the PC models are only client based it does not matter much to have different versions of them around. There will always be players that do prefer old models and it does not require much support.

And they can't do any changes that would cause issues for people who are using those models.

It was not an issue in the last 22 years, so it won't be one in the future.

Because player models haven't changed in 22 years? As they upgrade to direct x 11 and if they decide to change models what works now could cause problems.

To much fear and theory. There always could be problems and if you think that there will be some, they will be there.

Others would argue to much holding onto the past and not wanting to move to newer and better graphics.

It's very possible that the two are tied together and the UI updates are a stepping stone to graphic updates.

It is about identification. The players are used to some kind of appearance, especially if those are the PCs that they do play. Like in RL where players are used to identify themselves with a name which is going that far that they do even think that they are the name. Most players won't have a problem with better graphics as long as it would preserve the identity of "their" PCs which is stronly based on theirs appearance.

Yep those graphics are doable, and only 1 person (more up to a point is better) is all it takes, and doesn't require much time.
Theres videos of people doing amazing things within a week solo.
Then you have this community, thoughts on said Idea, "lack dev's" "lack time" "too many resources would be spent"
the person who did something amazing solo within a week, hold my dev's hold my time hold my resources.

Gotta be on a good engine though.
IF they go the route upgrade EQ to the latest and greatest. It takes away nostalgia.
IF they want EQ like game to be on the latest greatest, EQ3.
keep the nostalgia
stay up to date
brand stays relevant

GW1 to GW2 was a huge success.
nostalgia kept
GW2 moved onto that times latest and greatest
and you can still play GW1 if its not heavy populated anymore its because newer games outdated it, newer #esports, time to move on anyways, timing was good
GW3? I think on the way, good feeling.

EQ1 to EQ2, the outcome, others did 2nd version well, the outcome? other brands are doing well from their move.
that outcome was 2 decades old too, times changed, it was a long long time ago and the michael jordan of mmos was in its prime.

thinking,
the future of gaming.
YOU MAKE THE GAME
use the UE5 engine
use chatgpt to tell you what goes where and how to do what you want it to do

community support, community coming with ideas.
Quake1, that success was because grappling community stuff, capture the flag was community, clan arena community.

community stuff thats possible again with UE5 with chatgpt
AND
when dev's at big companies don't meet expectations of the community

fine, I'll do VR EQ myself
fine I'll do fun version EQ myself
hence you see all these youtube coming up, mind blown EQ. easy done
hold my extra devs hold my time hold my resources
done

so community, UE5 thats given free to all community
chatgpt given free to all community
we are in the
"just do it era"

yes its doable, quit making excuses
"just do it"

EQ3
just do it

sooner or later, a couple from now,
everything is gonna be a github repo of things, people going to make their games.
they'll buy stories

EQ lacks stories
it has nostalgic zones, but those zones are empty
zero stories have been told, just old folklore, fippy bark bark. thats it, no story or anything to it.
Some guard in some roams, folklore, no story just some guard that roams. everyone has their thing about why some specific guard is roaming.

EQLandmark, just not fun. they just did not know how fun it was. Thats where we are now, and where going towards. "just isn't fun". Fortnite. Heavy next generation players too. Not old farts and somewhat old.