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.
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.
Expect games to be playable on your hardware. Make games that are playable on many devices.
If you're into hi-end and experimentation, make sure that there is a graceful path for those who are not a part of the strongest economy in the world. People play games everywhere and they deserve to be able to enjoy them on whatever hardware they can get their hands on.
Stop eating the bullshit that is fed to you by marketing agencies. FFS.
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