Graphics for a PvP MMORPG

Okay so I talked before about most people playing games based on how good the graphics are. So this is a very important aspect of the game if it's going to succeed. Honestly most of the player base will either play a mmorpg because it has good graphics or they will completely avoid that same game. Most people now a days want eye candy its one of the most important things.

Part of what goes good with graphics is the UI system but as long as the graphics are good the game will have players. I mean look at final fantasy 14 for example the detail of the graphics is pretty good. But even that game has some things which can be improved. The change from day to night and how bright things actually look can be a killer on the eye's. I kind of feel like they didn't really take into account that for the game but not saying the game is over all bad.

This is part of why developers who make a game need to allow players to modify certain ingame aspects not just from the "Will it run on my system?" point of view but also because of peoples likes or dislikes. But don't get me wrong they do need to make sure that it can run on players systems and it's very important to be able to make it so an older system can still play the game. Keep in mind not everyone is rich so you will reduce your player base by having really high system requirements for mmorpg's.

The best way to cope with that is to allow users to shut off some of the game features and sure it will leave them playing a very ugly game but they will praise the development team for allowing them to play at all without having to buy a brand new rig to play each mmorpg. One feature which would have actually been good was turning off effects in Tera Online. Many effects get very laggy the more players are on a screen with that terrible flash client. So it would have helped people if you could remove all effects from game. But this is not possible not even by ripping though the client. This is bad game design. I understand they want everyone to see pretty effects but your laptop's cant run the game well cause of lack of CPU power.

The design of art and such is a completely different topic but the models and art within the game should be made realisticly and things like grass moving when you walk though it tree's moving with the wind and weather effecting surroundings is all things which help make the game more enjoyable for the player. But for the low performance computers you can always add options to remove different effects this way you make the people happy who love a pretty game and please the person running on the dual core computer with the 5 year old video card.