Dont you guys understand?? In order for the game to progress they needed this new engine.
Personally I think OTM underestimated the processing requirement of the Destiny engine. What made it even worse is that they made all these particle effects, went overboard on lighting and shadows and put in a lot of unnecessary animations.
Games like O&C have decent gorgeous graphics that still work nicely on low end devices.
I do think OTM is evaluating what they can get rid of to make the user experience better. The idle animations are already gone, for example. Now if they can only remove the cheesy login screen animation and revert back the quick login screen. Sometimes less is a lot more.
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