This game already so demanding as it is. Have you seen PC parts price lately? How the heck people afford that? 650% increase on RAM alone… WoW is fine as it is you don’t need more customization features of spell effect.
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i want more pool ponies.
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I don’t think upright undead would add that much strain to your rig.
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Yes it would. You don’t know anything my or other people rig.
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can i have gold
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I’ll give you 50g.
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I don’t want new stuff. I want more stuff we already have and I want it shared.
I want a Nelf Paladin or Shaman.
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I agree, and Blood Elf Druids, and updates for Nightborne!
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I want skimpier transmog. WoW should look like Modded Skyrim
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AI chatbot NPCs in towns you can talk to about in-game content!
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Yeah, look, uhh…
Just because you don’t have the cash to upgrade your rig doesn’t mean people should demand less or that Blizzard shouldn’t strive to make the game better.
And I say this as someone who just had to yank a hard drive out of my PC because it finally died and had to reinstall WoW on another drive to be able to keep playing.
RAM prices will vary depending on where you’re buying and if they’ve put limits in place to allow their stock to last longer. Search for stores that put limits on the amount of stock people can buy, and while it’s expensive, you’ll probably find it’s still within affordable limits. The alternative is to downgrade to DDR4 instead of DDR5. The extremely expensive RAM is DDR5 at the moment, but there’s still plenty of DDR4 out there. You’ll take a performance hit, but you can probably get your hands on DDR4 more easily and for cheaper than DDR5.
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…Ram has increased in price because of AI datacenters. It has nothing to do with people asking or getting things in a 21 year old video game.
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Time to break out the early 2000 era video games that could run on a potato
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I feel like all the most popular games, are only ever the ones that aren’t too demanding.
Or, they’re like Pokémon or something where the system itself (DS, Switch) isn’t expensive like building a PC, so people are able to play it.
Games like League of Legends, or FortNite, that are also completely free in addition to being able to run on pretty much anything.
WoW is such a game, maybe more expensive but the low requirements are what keep people around.
No matter your PC, if it came from the early-mid 2000’s it can likely run WoW.
If WoW ever had a major shift in system requirements, it’d actually kill the game, no meme.
I have a decent gaming computer but it’s especially hard to obtain one now.
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so you’re asking others not to ask for more in-game content… hmm.
anyway, more races, more hairstyles, more colors, etc. — those aren’t things that would break the game or use more RAM. Maybe they’d take up more SSD space, but RAM? no. 32 GB is perfectly fine nowadays.
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If only developers (across the entire world’s industries) optimized their applications…
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No one said or implied otherwise? Since you didnt understand the post, he was saying that because the price is high, blizz shouldn’t be doing more to drive up the memory usage of the game.
The broader issue is that every expansion results in more and more memory usage. I think some optimization is due from Blizzard’s part, regardless of the current price of PC components.
16GB of memory wasn’t common in the early 2000s and WoW wont run on 8.
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This is funny. I looked up WoW system requirements from 2010 vs now
2010
• Windows XP 32bit (SP3), Windows XP 64bit (SP2), Windows Vista 32bit (SP1), Windows Vista 64bit (SP1)
•Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1500
•1GB or more of RAM
•NVIDIA® GeForce® FX or ATI Radeon™ 9500 video card or better
•DirectX-compatible sound card or motherboard sound capability
•25 GB free hard drive space
•Mac OS X 10.5.8, 10.6.4, or newer:
•Intel Core Duo processor
•2 GB RAM
•25 GB free hard drive space
vs now
Minimum Requirements (Windows)
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OS: Windows® 10 64-bit (May 2019 Update or newer)
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Processor: 6 Cores, 4.0 GHz boost (Intel Coffee Lake / AMD Zen 2 or newer)
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Memory: 8 GB RAM
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Video: DirectX® 12 capable 4 GB GPU (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 10 series / AMD RDNA 1 / Intel Iris Xe2-LPG)
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Storage: SSD with 70-128 GB free space
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Internet: Broadband
If your pc is over 15 years old, you’re probably not having a good time when you’re playing wow
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My PC is probably about that old, but it’s been routinely upgraded so it doesn’t really count.
But, I was able to install and play WoW on several computers that weren’t gaming PCs, and was able to play it. Probably with low graphics on those.
One of which was a Dell computer at school in the computer lab, lol.
A lot of computers could run WoW without any modifications. (Installing it was the hard part.)
Also had it installed on some crappy Lenovo laptop that couldn’t really play any other games except maybe Hearthstone. But it could run WoW on the lowest settings.
That same laptop, gave me trouble with Minecraft of all games.
This was around fifteen years ago.
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WoW has different system requirements now and the graphics and textures are constantly updated
I’m also curious on why you think anything you did with technology 15 years ago is relevant at all today?