Game Insider #25: Jan '09 Newsletter

[Poison elf]

Originally Posted by Edward Edgemenace

While I don't directly disagree with the sentiment, I do disagree with the particulars. The more stuff they add to the game, the fewer people can play. If they don't take a step back and optimize their memory management (client side) then a whole lot of people will not be able to play, on one of these upcoming updates. I have to assume that they have all sorts of non-public information to help them estimate when one-or-the-other needs to be a priority.

Maybe some people buy a new computer every three months, always with the maximum amount of memory possible. I don't. I doubt that most players do. But if it is a problem they are calling their highest priority, you can bank that a lot of their customers are at minimum specs now, or close to it.

I think you didn't take that statement as I meant it. Personally I didn't find the lag issues at a high priority that many others did.

Stating this, I understand fully that the over all census was lag issues by players overall. I agree with steps taken towards what everyone most overall felt the biggest problem, though it was not my personal view. I do believe this the first step they should of took. I have argued for months that too much has been focused on small areas of the game and what many don't even find a important issue.

This being said, I hope to not wait endless months though to see what is also a high priority to many, such as continued content etc.

As for lag issues I have one of the poorest connections of probably most playing, barely a step above dial up. I run xp, and not a new hot computer. The lag issues are not always based off some of these such things. As for right now I believe vista users are having a much tougher time than me, due to vista conflicts and such on test right now. More than anything a bigger crowd than probably most that wanted a smoother running game, those that want to protect many of the problems/glitches = lag.

The fear I have more than anything is all the things I see in test right now dragging down anything else further and further down the line as these things are concentrated on.

Earlier today I found most things not addressed that many were original bugs from first build.
As it stands now SVS is bugged.
My items in inventory still down.
Guild has several twitches.
Compass ship tracking is off.
Quest tracking on and off.
Best I can tell from the non stop 5 minute crashes by some players, vista or perhaps another issue has many unstable.
Some texture problems in a few areas.
Still other smaller issues that may be ignored all together, maybe not.

Basically quite a few things that some could be a full blown out problem by itself.

So this being a long drawn out mess is what I am stating I don't hope to see, while waiting for the things I do find a higher priority myself.

Overall though I think this announcement a much better on the track announcement than we have heard for a long time.