Never mind your all petty and off topic. " I can change you post" oh "low income people have no business playing video games" what the he'll!?! So the popular people on this site can stay off topic? I meAn come on. I'm really trying here but Damn...
Basically. If I like you, you get away with lots more! Oh, yeah, I'm totally not fair. That's not my thing. I don't even pretend. If your conversation is interesting to me or enough other people or you have a history of positive, intelligent posting, I just let you run. For awhile.
Of course in this thread, off-topic is an improvement, anyway.
I think most people would rather (even on expensive system) play on ultra at 60 fps, than 30-40fps on high at 4k res. But ofcourse personal preference and all that, but to me it makes sense to not sacrifice gameplay and get all the great effects game can offer. And if any extra 'sharpness' is needed there is DSR downsampling. The highest res monitor i'd ever go is 1440p - there are also some decent g-sync monitors out there now at that resolution.
I'm kind of an image slave. I've waded through 20 fps if it's pretty enough. I'll stop atop an outcropping and watch the view in Modded Skyrim for awhile. It's easiest if I don't see Ultra visuals, but if I do, I must have them.
I have an expensive system and I run the graphics as high as I can and still have good response time: 30+ FPS. Outside CS or something, of course.
I find sudden drops in FPS to be much worse than a steady, lower framerate.
Those great effects, as I said, I don't care that much about. And a lot of them aren't too visible, especially whipping around on horseback or in a car or fighting. The high res visuals are though.
If you'd like to find me some comparisons at 1080p with bells and whistles vs without, I might care, but nothing I've seen so far is that exciting at 1080p.
If you haven't checked out 4K on a good monitor with a game that can push it. I think you'll be a believer.
Each to their own, but first, see what the other guy is talking about. I've seen lower res, higher-toy gameplay and it left me feeling like I needed to clean my eyes. It did. I'm so accustomed to, at worst, 2560x1600 I -can't- go back now.