• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Can I say as a non PC gamer who follows game news. PC gamers all have different machines, isn’t optimising the games extra costly? In addition, I can imagine the annoyance of getting bad reviews on steam because some Dingus is trying to play the game on a 10 year old PC.

    Also, something like 30% of PC gamers pirate their games, so that doesn’t sound like an attractive market to me.

    • mbfalzar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      What does this post have to do with anything when it launched on PC the same day as PS5 and XSX? As well, a 10 year old pc would likely have a GTX 1070 or better and that’s enough to run the game just fine?

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      7 months ago

      So you are advocating against user driven reviews the alternative which tends to be corporate relations driven reviews? You don’t want consumers to have a voice or user based resources?

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      7 months ago

      isn’t optimising the games extra costly?

      These days compilers can optimise it for the hardware mostly on their own.

      I can imagine the annoyance of getting bad reviews on steam because some Dingus is trying to play the game on a 10 year old PC.

      Yeah, that’s the great thing about PC. You don’t have to upgrade your hardware more than once a decade, and you can give feedback to games publishers that chasing ever increasing graphics trends is alienating their customers. You console gamers have to take whatever slop you’re given, but us PC gamers don’t have to worry about a publisher not supporting backwards compatibility, so we have more market power. We can apply greater pressure on the industry to apply pro-consumer business practices.

      Also, something like 30% of PC gamers pirate their games

      That’s definitely not true. I wish it was.

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        7 months ago

        Also, something like 30% of PC gamers pirate their games

        That’s definitely not true. I wish it was.

        It’s just Spiders Georg bringing the average up.

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      7 months ago

      PC is the largest single platform right now. Even if 30% pirate the game, there are more copies sold for the typical game on PC than PlayStation.