They released the enhanced client years ago. I'm not quite sure how many people prefer the enhanced client over the classic client but I for one can't use the enhanced client for anything except placing a house.
The graphics update and ability to control frame rate is probably the only thing I actually like about it. Being able to zoom in and out and have a smooth 144hz experience.
THE MAIN PROBLEM WITH THE CURRENT ENHANCED CLIENT.
-The user interface.
Why couldn't they copy the classic user interface into the enhanced client keeping the game the same just with enhanced graphics? I see no other reason than saving money or utilizing some employees skills (copying the old interface was not in their skill set).
I think that we need a new enhanced client that has all of the classic client's user interface and none of the current enhanced client's user interface.
Maybe a new container system that lets us make containers and items within bigger so we can see things easier.
I like the EC as it is thanks.
Well it's not very likely they will have time to make another client!
(Insert long pro and con post here)
Final line only important one
The odds of BS diving into the client issue and making a third one is as good as them dropping the windows version to make a Mac only client.
In other words not a chance in hell if they have any choice.
PS anyone know of another game with two live clients for one platform?
Now this is a first, someone wants the CC with the EC graphics, WOW.
I think you should have a long hard look at what part of the CC has become a crutch for you, once you figure that out, you'll embrace the EC like many others have.
I like a lot of the options that EC has, but I can't play it long, for the graphics hurts my eyes... Playing it for more than an hour or two gives me a migraine that takes days to go away.... If it wasn't for that, I would have switched for good cause I do like its features...
Are you using Pinco's? He's fine-tuned the graphics options to reduce much of the inherent wonkiness.
Well if they allow custom interfaces why haven't they added the option to switch everything back to the original interface. oh and trust me I've tried to learn the new interface but I can't stand it just feels too cheap and half ass.
Because no one has built the original broken as all hell interface as an option and made it publicly. Feel free too.
It would be nice if they could update the the EC to have the legacy art
I would switch and I think most others would then they could drop the cc and only have 1 client
Am I the only one who remembers that one of the main reasons we have a 2nd client was that players complained long and bitterly that the CC graphics were outdated?
Personally I do not want the CC graphics, if I have to go back to the CC I won't be playing any more.
In EC you can make the containers larger using the scaling tool.
I remember it so well because I was perfectly happy with the existing graphics. I mention it only because of the idea being suggested here, that putting cc graphics into ec would make everyone happy and allow the retiring of the older client.
My regret with EC is that the developers of that time saw fit to re-invent some of the existing mobs instead of merely updating the graphics we knew. Creatures should not look totally differently in the 2 clients, and ones created by the current team, don't.
There are some graphics in both clients that are good and bad, it's not an all or nothing thing we have to take the good with the bad I guess. The Bane dragon does look good. I like the Swamp dragon too. Feels more like a dragon and less goofy.
I agree that a lot of people would find an enhanced client with classic client user interface to be awesome and pleasing but I don't think that they should ever retire the classic client because the classic is still basically the real game. The enhanced client models and sprites are lame in comparison to the classic client.
The point is it would be cheap and easy to incorporate the classic client interface into the enhanced client and people would respond well. It would give classic client people the ability to use the enhanced client.
I totally disagree with the OP. The EC is much better than the CC, besides cosmetic wise. For one, I will need 3rd party software to survive the CC, like UOassist and Automap. With EC, its integrated, stronger feature cannot be matched. If anyone thinks the EC graphics is bad, CC graphics dated all the way back to 1997 style. Why not try using all softwares at that time and see how it feel. Its horrifying!
