Even if you can get an SSD or find out an HHD will work, you still need i5+ and more graphic power… once again, this will cost tons of subscribers…
I mean Blizz can’t win can they, they move forward like other game companies to upgrade the game to be competitive and they cop flack because people want it to remain in the dark ages hardware wise.
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Yeah nothing like forcing people to buy stuff. Making you looking really bad blizzard. I cant even just go out and buy it. After this im leaving for good if they steal my money.
No game company can win. Always going to be a group of people complaining about progress.
I’d hate to see what they think of having to buy a PS5 in order to play PS5 games.
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Well i didnt ask for this one bit.
Nobody is being “forced” to buy anything. We’re talking about current technology, not high-tech new fangled top of the line gear. Basic entry level computer type stuff now.
You’re welcome to download the PTR and see how it plays on your system as it may play just fine. Many have already pointed out that they don’t have a SSD and are playing without any real issues.
If that’s not the case for you, then there are a lot of more graphically intensive games that are also not forcing you to buy them and upgrade your system.
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Oh so we dont need a ssd to play showlands when it comes out?
There are people in Beta without SSDs and they are playing fine, just with longer load times. Your experience may vary, but you’re still welcome to download the PTR version of the game (which includes a lot of the changes) and see how it runs for your particular setup.
Edit: To be fair, I don’t know if they’ll make it a hard-coded requirement, but it’s certainly not on the beta or ptr currently.
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If nothing else,
I’ve bought 2 of these, the 512 is in a older i3 laptop for media, and a family member got the 1tb for their older PC until we can afford to upgrade the CPU,MB,PSU.
But it’s not like Blizzard is forcing everyone to buy new PC’s every other expansion either, and as the game gets bigger, better looking, the requirements also have had to increase to match.
It’s sadly not like 16 years ago, when a 2ghz single core could rule the world.
However, minimum requirements does not mean it won’t run, but if you have issues such as poor performance, long loading times, crashes, etc… support might not be able to help you out either.
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wait really need SSD? or i can still play from HDD?
That has been answered countless times in these threads.
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Already answered.
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What are you running? I’m thinking you are trying to find an excuse to quit the game.
One of the problems with the “loss of subs” argument is you don’t have any data on why an account became inactive. Trying to use it as justification for whatever point you are making simply doesn’t work because players stop playing for any number of reasons.
stole the quote from Vrathris
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I can run Shadowlands fine on a Hard Drive. Unless it’s mission critical, an SSD isn’t really needed, you’ll just get long load times, like 20 seconds or so.
If you REALLY want to be sure, just download the current PTR as it’s the 9.0 client.
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No, you don’t. Haven’t you been reading this thread?
The game is being optimized to run on SSD because that’s the future of hard drives.
Your HDD will still work, it just won’t work as well.
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I wouldn’t do it even on USB 3.0, primarily because USB transfers are CPU controlled, meaning it eats CPU cycles and ties up that DMI link to the CPU from the PCH (motherboard chipset). However, if you have a Thunderbolt 2 or 3 connector or card in your system, an external will be run via PCI express lanes and have much less overhead than USB. It’ll still be through the PCH on most systems outside of HEDT setups, but it has full duplex communication with 128/130 bit encoding for less total overhead.
This won’t cost subscribers like you think. “Printed” specs are just those officially supported. Oftentimes games are playable below “minimum” specifications, just not officially supported.
Things that make them lose subscribers? Removing features that are necessary for gameplay. An example would be the loss of exclusive fullscreen to prevent the game client from losing focus, which then breaks setups that disabled players like myself use. When 8.0 hit, EFS went away and the UI changed to have the most commonly access element on my blind side. Double whammy. And I needed that original base UI layout without addons since I’m a clicker, and using addons to move often clicked UI elements means that if they taint during combat I’m screwed.
As a result of that loss I’ve been unable to play since July 2018. That is the loss of a subscriber. Not caring enough about disabled players’ needs lost them more players than printed minimum specs ever will.
I’ve read posts like this in the forums for every single expansion.
They never lose enough players.
Console gamers are getting ready to upgrade their hardware in the next year or so. If not the end of this year.
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Buy a cheap SSD external drive. Like 128gb on Amazon. They cost less than $80.
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In all honesty its probably to get it done early while its easier to set up in wow now then wait till they have no choice and throw it in that its 100% required probably the next expansion after shadowlands.
Wow, that sounds horrible. Can you still play Classic?