Let's just read players' opinions we have gathered. A game requiring more than what people's graphics card can deliver might decrease its supporters who just have an ordinary graphics card. People are hoping NCsoft will retain the same great character models and world graphics while not alienating those who have older systems.
Aion kina, despite some simalarities, is a completely different game. this world is nonlinear, whereas, I saw
some places that looked familiar, such as Dark Shire and GoldShire. In the world of building, no house is
gonna look the same as the last, there's always gonna be something like a higher chimney, maybe an
extra chimney, but most of all, the SHAPE will be different. (Excluding the redundant townhouses.)
Now, when I see an inn, it looks the same on the outside. And the inside, which makes it even WORSE,
because this means that no effort was put into towns, this is severely disappointing and takes you out of
the experience and reminds you that you are playing a video game.
Aion kina will not only have better graphics, but the combat will actually be FUN.
Guild Wars, Lord of the Rings Online, Hellgate: London, Age of Conan and Warhammer Online. All of
theseMMO's were touted as 'WoW killers', but none have delivered. The Warhammer Online beta was so
bad they had to pull it back into active development.
Aion kina looks interesting, but is it a WoW killer? No. It doesn't add anything substantially new to
the genre, but that's not the reason why people won't flock to it.
WoW runs quite well on many, many machines, including those 2-3 years out of date. I can already
tell, just by looking at the screenshots, thatAion kina will require more than my processor/graphics
card can deliver. That holds true for many of the WoW playerbase. I tried LotRO, but it wouldn't
play on my laptop at anything more than the most basic settings, and that just made it look like
crap.
That is, IMO, one area that Blizzard has yet to be outmatched on: graphics. Wow's graphics are
stunning considering that they've got low polygon counts and primitive textures.
Why can't other MMO's take a page from Blizzard's book, and offer stylistic, simple and well-done
graphics that are easy on video cards? At a stroke, you'd have access to a much wider audience.
Edit: Don't get me wrong, I hope Aion kina rises as a serious threat to WoW, as they sorely need the
competition. But I'm not holding my breath.
So whatever you consider with Aion kina and WoW, their developers are still doing their best for their own features. Don't be too punctilious in your attention to the question if any game is a killer to another one.















