Yuri Feb 7, 2025

Hmm, apparently when people say to you "this hardware is decade old, you can't expect it to run games at 1080p", and you respond that it's absurd — you get blocked 🤔

Oh well, let me repeat it for the entire room: the notion that a 5-10 year old piece of hardware is somehow incapable of doing the most basic thing in this day and age is a capitalist lie propagated by corporations which would love for you to keep buying their luxury-priced hardware year after year. It's a consumeristic mindset.

Show threadYuri Feb 7, 2025

In just a few short years we've switched from blaming the studios for releasing unoptimized mess to blaming the consumer for not owning the latest and greatest piece of hardware on the market.

Games are not luxury, they are at the base of human life. You don't need to own a 5090 and a 4K display to be able to play games. You should be able to play games with a hardware that you've managed to save up for 5-10 years ago. Budget PCs are the core of the player base. They are the majority.

Show threadHeroOfDermwood
@yurisizov one of the things that really bug me is that there is not a market for low and mid range gaming PCs. Computers made with what would have been top of the line 5 to 10 years ago. I would buy a bunch of those.
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Show threadLatte macchiato  Feb 8, 2025
@HeroOfDermwood @yurisizov

But the used market is very alive and well...?
I don't know if this is different in the US, but I've assembled most of my stuff with one or two generation old components.
Show threadHeroOfDermwoodFeb 8, 2025
@privateger @yurisizov yeah, the used computer market exists here, but it is more niche than used games and consoles. At least around where I live.