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Originally Posted by cbk1994
In the world of business (or games) you work to please the majority. Downgrading sound quality in order to avoid "excluding" the 15% or so (and that's extremely generous) of internet users still using dial up (and remember that most of these users aren't the kind of people who would be playing online MMOs either) seems like a really bad business move. If anything, maybe offer a lower quality version.
If internet users don't keep pushing their ISPs for faster and faster connections, the internet will cease to progress further than it is now.
Either way, the world is starting to move to broadband. Some governments are even trying to make (or have made) broadband access a human right. Pretty soon it will be a waste of time to cater to people stuck with slow connections, as cruel as that may sound, especially since you don't have a speedy line.
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Except there are no numbers to prove that the majority of players can download these large MP3's in a quick and unobtrusive manner... ESPECIALLY if they don't offer that much of a quality difference over well-made MIDI's. Graal is one of the more low-end MMO's out there(in terms of PC requirements and internet speed requirements), so it's not crazy to imagine that it attracts a lot of people with slower speeds.