23-07-2009, 07:14 AM
The only games coming from Mirage are going to be small 2d morpgs, played by a tiny (in comparison to other online games) community of dedicated people. Moving to Dx8, while having the benefit to make everything pretty and translucent, doesn't actually do much to improve the basic focus of Mirage. VB6 is still used today because it is easy, accessible and usable. Microsoft has stated that they will continue to have OS' that run VB6 for a further ten years. They wouldn't do that without a good reason. Sure, vb.net is the standard now, but is it really needed?