Should developers stop making games that require 5090 for max settings now that the card is clearly not for gamers and is accessible to 0.1% of community?

[u/TheGGspot]

I get that the games need better hardware to dun better, but who are they really making the game for if you need a 6000$ GPU at this point

[u/Academic-Cream-4836]

how does using upscaling raise the barrier to entry for your family to game with you? like none of what you said has anything to do with upscaling 😭

[u/YouDoNotKnowMeSir → u/Academic-Cream-4836]

Because you’re excluding budget and used hardware by pushing by relying on upscaling and frame-gen.

If it can’t run well on hardware without that functionality, it makes it less inclusive for budget builds and new gamers that are dipping their toes in the water.

This is especially true in a market where windows 11 is bloated and inefficient and hardware is scarce and overpriced.

You very easily get into a 1k+ range, 1.5k+ for a decent rig that can run this game for example, because of the crutch of frame gen and lack of optimization.

Let’s exercise some critical thinking please.

[u/YouDoNotKnowMeSir → u/[deleted]]

Okay so your argument is that we should be happy that we can play day 1 without optimization and no long term prospect to improve the baseline of the game, despite us have significantly stronger hardware.

Where as before we had weaker hardware and they would actually optimize their product after a famously rushed release despite their dev teams signaling that it would take longer?

Are we supposed to accept that our significantly stronger and significantly more expensive hardware should produce subpar results and continue to encourage sloppy unoptimized slop?

Like what are you even saying?

This isn’t a compromise we have to make, we are the consumer and have purchasing power to influence decisions… yet here you are acting as if this is our only option. I’m SO thankful for frame gen, thank you for providing us with our only option to play games.