Well this is all news to me because I've never played an MMO in my life.

But the point is, they're trying to be as candid and forthright as I've ever seen them be, and that means something in my book...perhaps you have a different perspective you'd be so good as to share? I've often thought that game developers focus too much on the graphics side of things, to the point where they obsess over making everything pretty as a picture, but neglect the gameplay.

This is tantamount to affirming that attitude (which many people who've been playing games for a long time have expressed, i.e. Egoraptor, AVGN, et al), and it's something I think a forward-thinking developer ought to be saying.

As long as the graphics are pretty and eye-catching, who cares if they're "the most realistic?" I'd gladly trade that processing power for something like fps any day.