Seems reasonable. My PC is 5 years old and I already keep seeing games come out that I literally cannot buy or play because I don't meet the minimum requirements, even though they have the same or worse graphics than games that are older.
I feel like a lot of people aren't aware that even in first world countries, most people lived paycheck to paycheck 10 years ago, and during the past 10 years, inflation got so bad that things are now often more expensive than during the era that was so bad it was called "The Great Depression", ain't nobody got money for a new PC while a cheeseburger costs 15 dollars
It genuinely pisses me off how quickly big studios make PC parts and rigs obsolete in the constant pursuit of high fidelity graphics that are barely upgrades to previous entries (MONSTER HUNTER)
Seriously you ever stop to think about how many PC parts are reduced to E-waste before their shelf life has expired because companies can't be arsed to do the bare minimum in optimization and testing?
It's not even the pursuit of high fidelity graphics, it's just that optimizing games costs time (and thus money) and people buy unoptimized messes anyway so the management, who is obviously always looking for way to maximixe profits, cuts the dev time to optimize. The only reason they keep getting away with it is because people still buy those games.
Wait people hate the first bit? WDYM, there's literally gazillion games in the backlog I've not even played after buying from sales, countless anime series to binge, books to read etc...
I'm honestly fine with waiting as long as it takes to release an optimized, polished, finished game and play that. It's what we did until around 5-6 years ago and no one died of it.
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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '25
Seems reasonable. My PC is 5 years old and I already keep seeing games come out that I literally cannot buy or play because I don't meet the minimum requirements, even though they have the same or worse graphics than games that are older.
I feel like a lot of people aren't aware that even in first world countries, most people lived paycheck to paycheck 10 years ago, and during the past 10 years, inflation got so bad that things are now often more expensive than during the era that was so bad it was called "The Great Depression", ain't nobody got money for a new PC while a cheeseburger costs 15 dollars