Wonderful stuff. Compatibility is probably the most feared thing in any IT company/project. EVE-Online another MMORPG splits the client into premium and classic graphics(possible graphics branch?). This allows them to still support people with slow systems. Also from now on you could do the extra work on newer models and work up from there. I speak for myself only but i would rather see a richer world than have my character making me blind with their sword and armor. Good luck with this, I believe it to be a great step forward (Again..)

You need a better video card.

From memory most other MMORPG's with a medieval setting have bosses, EQ/FF/WOW/LOTRO etc... So why don't we have bosses..With phat loot? That would add another dimension to the game. Make another town where there is a cave nearby where a giant <insert creepy thing here> is reeking havoc on the town. Do that and you will probably halve the amount of people at the platinum mine. (hey you could even use the instance thing you talked about in the google tech talk).

Is there a command or button somewhere to go to character selection? or even to the Login screen??

I was wondering because this is on every other game i played and i could not find it.

I think it would be best to expand the death realm and possibly have a city in there. The city could be a home city of a new race of ghouls or something. They could worship a religion solely devoted to a death god. I would like the idea of having some sort of sanctuary protected by each of the gods or something along the lines of that. The death realm can be something more than a waste land. It can be apart of the game and people can gain a  physical deformity (Grayer hair, older face, paler skin) from being in there for prolonged periods. (maybe the new race can be deformed (or evolved however you look at it) of another race.

But definitely have a town in there. And a more permanent effect, appearance not stat wise. Anything that punishes a player permanently is kind of pointless. At some point you have to draw the line on how realistic you want this to be, and no matter how hard you try Real Life is not that same as Planeshift, so you shouldn't be trying to model it off of it.

I would have thought that protocol would be in place to have the mirror for the updater up before releasing a new version... That wouldn't be to hard to do. It would still be separate from the client it would just call the client after it is done. Would mean that EVERYONE who has started the client will get updated and this means standardization of clients and less errors.

use getright it is a download manager it will break the download up in to smaller parts you will get better speeds and still keep the download intact aswell as it beening pauseable