It's being forced because without the dynamic lighting you'd have no light sources and hence couldn't see. Some zones would be pitch black. You could certainly argue with the notion of forcing a feature that's not fully fleshed-out and perhaps not completely ready for primetime in which case I might be inclined to agree. I like the classic darkness as much as anyone else, but I have my doubts that it's worth severe performance hits on a 2005-era client that by rights should run on basically any working PC out there. As soon as a player obtains decent light sources and/or vision buffs the fancy darkness/etc becomes largely moot, but the performance problems remain. That's a questionable trade.
Danth
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