The Warhammer Online system requirements where revealed some time ago and while people all over the internet call them low and reasonable, I only noticed that it won’t run on my 18 month old Macbook. I guess when they said it would run on 3 year old hardware they only meant top-of-the-line-back-then gaming hardware, not your average PC and notebook with onboard graphics. I wanted to try this game, but I’m not going to buy a new PC just for that, so their “low” system requirements already lost them a customer. Judging by this hardware rundown of your average casual gamer (via Raph Koster) W:O is severely limiting its potential customer base, which is ok I guess, as long as you’re not gunning for WoW numbers. Just skimming over these graphics card numbers makes it obvious that W:O won’t run on about 80% of the PCs out there.
Incidentally I would like to point out that in the past I ran WoW on a now 6 year old laptop – now that’s what I call low system requirements.
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