"Probably, maybe even close to 45 fps on average. If correct, that's a pretty low bar for a gaming PC."
I absoululty disagree. 45fps on average is not only totally fine and all you need, but about what the majority of pc players will probably be able to run with their hardware.
oh really, if you want the best experiance you should buy the best currently available hardware. Great conclusion guys. But not everyone needs or has the capabilities for the "best experiance". And I do not think that you need the "best" experiance to have a good experiance. med-high settings @ 45 fps is totally fine, and is all that is "necessary"
This article is nothing but clickbait, really. Nothing but pcmr snobbiness. And I really hate all things "pcmr".
I don't think it's "pc master race". I myself love PC gaming, (I love consoles too but that's another conversation) but with that being said, I myself don't like that article at all. Being a PC gaming person myself, I don't like the article, but I don't consider it pc master race, so much as I feel like the article is just trying to show off and sound smart, and rile people up and draw attention to their brand in the process. I feel like it's silly and blatantly obvious.
How is it clickbait? To me it is an article aimed at managing expectations and giving you the detailed rundown since CDPR has not released specs the same way Ubisoft did which was highly praised.
I agree that the article is clickbait because as others have correctly pointed out, the article pretty much seems to ignore that CDPR released minimum and recommended specs. CDPR never claimed that these specs were "high" or "ultra" specs, and CDPR even said after that they wanted to try and release some higher specs later on. So I just feel like the article is just trying to draw attention by making people annoyed because they agree, but also annoyed because they disagree, which is kind of smart for marketing, but then again, it's kind of silly and not that smart too in my opinion because we're living in the year 2020 and I'm totally used to, and even bored of these types of marketing tricks. I am so over things like this that I mostly stopped watching 99% of all TV years ago. I think the article is unfair with CDPR, and I view the article as dishonest since it's not a fair representation of what CDPR really did, or did not say.
It's very silly how the article tells people to not trust CDPR, for pretty much no reason, and then they go on to list a bunch of computer parts, which I honestly feel is a thousand times more confusing, and even less helpful. It makes me distrust toms hardware instead of who they're telling me to not trust, because now I'm just being flooded by and overwhelming amount of different products. It feels like shopping for a car at a dealership and being drowned in useless garbage-data and "good deals" until I have absolutely no idea what I want anymore.