Maybe I am being picky, but why does it seem the graphics haven’t changed in the past 3 or so games? Is it because they release them so close to each other they just don’t have the time to commit more resources to the graphics engine or is it because they are only focused on the console versions?

My experience with “crunch time” is that at times it can be really rewarding.You can look back and go “holy shit, I just did all that in ____ time.” However, it is not rewarding when that amount of time becomes expected or the norm and you aren’t seeing any decent reward. It is bad for the company too because if you…

That may be true for the core, but they also have a database running server-side that contains all the data and names for every item, creature, as well as ties the creature models to the creatures.

That’s not entirely true. Its not like people have a magic program that magically recreates the game. During 1.12 there were not many people sniffing data at all which means a large part of the functionality had to be hand coded, tested, de-bugged, and optimized, especially to run on a server with over 10,000…

Personally, I like to think the good Congressman started vaping and trying out all sorts of games to better understand his younger constituents. Seems a lot better than spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on new outfits or private jet planes for vacation.