In not saying all game devs do this but it's becoming a trend and bad one at that.

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  1. Antedysomnea

    Remember when devs used to rewrite entire games to optimize it enough to make expanded editions fit on one cartridge/disc?

  2. Brief-Watercress-131

    Make excuses about baked lighting and ***needing*** raytracing

  3. Hardware companies: people dont need more vram

  4. sirfannypack

    OP, how much you know about game development?

  5. Stock-Wishbone-8417

    Todd howard “get better pc”

  6. the_Real_Romak

    PC players when the recently released game won’t run on 15 year old hardware:

  7. xstrawb3rryxx

    They promised you no loading screens with SSDs, but decided to cram higher fidelity assets instead. Now you have both loading screens and no free space on your drive.

  8. RedofPaw

    Want to specify actual games? Because games do get more demanding, but that’s the nature of these things.

    Cities Skylies 2 was poorly optimized. There are games you can point to and they run more poorly than they should.

    But a game simply having higher requirements doesn’t mean it’s poorly optimized.

  9. aurelia_ffxiv

    DLSS 4 Frame Generation, Fake Frames & Fake Optimization!

  10. HANAEMILK

    CS2. The fact this game runs shit on anything except X3D chips is crazy. And even on X3D chips the performance is still crap.

    Man fuck Valve

  11. effreeti

    Its wild how excited I become now when I hear a game is in an engine OTHER than UE5

  12. HeriPiotr

    Monster Hunter Wilds

    A 2015 looking game with 2030 requirements

  13. WelderEquivalent2381

    There is no time to optimize when game is consumable to be thrown in the garbage bin of the void realm. When after 20h of rushing and skipping the all cutscene, the average gamer is content of his purchase and move to the next one.

    99.998% of game are mass-produced entertainment. Their are not a piece of art in intend to advance, have a impact, innovate and be original. Its what will print money the best with the much BS shit you can put in it that you can use as marketing material to sell it. Put as much gimmick to it as possible. Offering what was already been made 99.998% of the time at a lower cost as the cost of development become lower as tools get more powerful and accessible to novice.

    Gamer will be happy if the percieve quality of a title is signly greater and will howl to Goty at perpetuity since thier have a redfish memory and don’t actual play at all the games they bought
    Even that most people never finish any game at all. 5 years later, still only 37% of people that purchased Cyberpunk as completed the Main story.
    [https://steamcommunity.com/stats/1091500/achievements](https://steamcommunity.com/stats/1091500/achievements)
    The elden ring achievement stat is very similar, >_>

    Even The great loved Baldur gate 3 that is still a Bug infested game in Act 3. 60% of people did not reach act 3.

  14. Plamcia

    Best example is Doom: Dark Ages. Worst graphic and higher requirments.

  15. Zygmuntek

    Also required specs : These apply only for 30 fps 1080p with dlss turned on ultra performance

  16. JunWasHere

    Optimization is one of the biiig reasons why I still play Overwatch. The game is just so smooth even for friends with older machines. It has gotten worse with becoming OW2 and going fully live-service, more and more bugs cropping up every patch, but it’s still for the most part a buttery smooth experience.

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