User: idburns

Re:Impressions from the closed and open betas

On: A WoW Player's Guide To Warhammer

The graphics in the closed beta were bad, texture wise at least. In the open beta, they're significantly better. Hardly any graphic settings are changeable in game currently, so I figure they had a crappy default on the closed beta, a slightly better one now, and when you can tweak it to use your full system, it will be able to rival AoC.

Apparently you didn't pay much attention to the beta forums or anything else that was being released to us closed testers. I've been in the closed beta for 4+ months and the graphics got progressively better with each content push as the devs worked on the lighting engines. To claim about crappy graphics in a closed beta is foolish, especially since the developers were always vocal in the work that was being done on the game during testing. As for the lack of visual options, by locking the settings down it makes trouble-shooting and any possible feedback easier to deal with. The point of closed beta isn't to test the graphics, it's to test play mechanics and ensure that the content and classes are working properly.

What console hasn't been sold at a loss?

On: Microsoft Loses $126 Per Unit on XBox 360

Just about every gaming console created has been sold at a loss. This is nothing new.