Question: Gravity Laziness

Why is Gravity so lazy?
After seeing the Naght swords, I think it's time to come up with this question.
Why the weapons don't have custom graphics?
I mean, even a Gakkung Bow has it's own graphics, an Arbalest bow.
And when you pick up that Luna Bow, Burning bow they have the same sprites
as an ordinary bow! This makes those weapons look so weak!

I was impressed that Gravity made Naght blades with custom sprites (altough they're the same, just recolors, lol!). Unfortunately I still couldn't see the Violet Fear.

Anyway, for other classes the situation is worse. All daggers share the same
boring sprites. An almight two-handed axe has the same sprite as the common
two-handed axe from NPC, while the Hammer has it's custom one.

Why is Gravity so lazy?
Our equipments already don't appear on our characters (even MapleStory has that), so at least our weapons should have custom sprites!

sometimes i wonder if gravity have like only one person working
seriously, by the time they started renewall other company could make 10 games
with twice ammount of sprites than RO =T
and it doesnt look even 1/4 finished.

im still waiting for their promise about 3rdies having different sprites poses for each different skill, and weapons too.
at their speed.. it will take 10 years..

Why is this in the renewal section?
*moved to general section*

I guess they dont make unique sprites for all weapons because they would not only have to make unique sprites for every weapons but also for every class with individual transparent parts where this class is holding the weapon.

who cares about a two handed axe?
The mjolnir, weapon of a god, ITS A F****NG CLUB WITH SPIKES!

^

I don't really care.

I guess not giving sprites makes the game require that much more skill in gear switching.

Gravity has much worse problems to deal with anyway.

Now only weapons, but shield too. You are supposed to be holding an almighty cross/valk shield and where the shield should be... there's nothing.
It also kills the fun we could have with a sage/priest holding two books.

If long ago they could make custom sprites for things like gakkung bow and hammer, I think they should do the same for every level 4 weapon, as well as shields.

Monks/Champions are also the only class to ever not have a holding shield sprite, lazy Gravity...

I thought this was a thread about why, even though there's a very small playerbase these days, it takes 4-19 days for server xfers and stat resets to go through.

Shouldn't these people be like ON THE BALL with paid requests considering that they've already lost 90% of their playerbase? lol?

I remember the day when ALL bows looked like a regular bow and ALL knives looked like a regular knife then suddenly, a patch came out of nowhere and everyone was like "Yay! New weapon sprites!" I don't even remember how long ago that was and it's very sad that all the weapons that came after that patch have default sprites again (except for the twin swords).

as long as kafra bands have their own sprite idgaf

we originally got weapon sprites with amatsu in 2004

Originally Posted by Deses

Now only weapons, but shield too. You are supposed to be holding an almighty cross/valk shield and where the shield should be... there's nothing.
It also kills the fun we could have with a sage/priest holding two books.

If long ago they could make custom sprites for things like gakkung bow and hammer, I think they should do the same for every level 4 weapon, as well as shields.

Cross Shield does have a sprite...it's the Mirror Shield sprite. Not accurate, but it's not invisible unlike other special shields.

I've also wondered about this same question. I've even dreamed of one day holding the Mystellain, so I can look cool holding a black sword.

But alas...

I think there is a mystelltain sprite for Rogues, iirc. The Zeny Knife sprite is awesome too.

I didn't read anything in this thread yet, but I think it's pretty fair to state that most people are lazy (some more than others) by nature.