Did you even bother to click the link I posted. LOL ? It leads to a post in the thread. with my user name (o n the forums) my equipment and my stats . LOL .
Your not even quoting my most recent reply.
Yea based on your "real world hardware spec" . which is no wear close to be a top system.
"PS: people should really stop being hardware snobs. Most people currently use a 1060 Ti card with quad core processors, 7200RPM HDDs and 8Gbs of RAM. That is the real world popular gaming computer. Just check the 2020 steam hardware charts or any other meaningful popular gaming hardware pool.
Just because I run this https://www.3dmark.com/spy/15406902 it doesn't mean I do not want the game engine to be decent and the graphical options available in the game making it compatible with most people's hardware. Compatibility and optimization are very important and incremental graphical improvements available via options should be worth the performance hit to begin with. "
I disagreed with your entier post.
My suggestion is that game developers in general need to stop looking backwards and making thing backward compatible
They should design games to push the limits of future technology not to be compatible with the past or current tech .
Like the high end car market . Not everyone can afford a high end car but High end car markets still manage to make a profit.
Also if the game industry does not "force" people to upgrade making everything backwards compatible we are never going to move forward at a reasonable pace. Its like trying walk while dragging/ carrying something to heavy behind you
"Its like trying walk while dragging/ carrying something to heavy behind you"
Clarification: that is general statement mean to encompass places behind in technology, economic growth etc etc etc
In other works keep up or get left behind . I still believe like the luxury car market they would still be very profitable even "losing a subset of customers" .