I understand what you’re saying and I guess it’s true that some people are just finding excuses.

But I think you also lack some empathy towards everyone ´s user’s case.

Personnaly, switching fully to Linux was pretty easy as 99% of my gaming is being done on Playstation.

On my playstation 5 I can know for sure that I can play every game I fancy.

Why am I gaming on consoles? Mostly because it involves no tinkering.

So, despite having gotten rid of Windows a while ago, I would easily give up if I had to tinker to get a game running.

I know that gaming on Linux as never been so easy, but gaming on PC (windows or linux) looks already too difficult for some people with all the requirements.

I might jump to a Linux gaming rig in the future, but I can also understand why some people are choosing an easy path.

Netflix works flawlessly on Fedora. No streaming problem except with Nba basketball.

I also don’t really care about more people switching to Linux, except for the fact that it’s gonna force developers to make their games run on Linux.

There’ll also be some downsides with more people using linux, like more viruses…

In a way, I’d focus more on the fact that it would be cool if more people used Linux on phones instead of ios/Android. That could make it easier to run at one point…

Yeah it really makes me think something has to change.

Especially since an Fps should cost less than open world with lots of characters and locations.

These numbers sound insane. I wonder how it compares to the developpment costs of other big games.

I also wonder how it conpares to the cost of similar games like Killzone 3 or Gears Of War from 15 years ago.

Sorry for you as it sounds really sad.

I hope it’s just temporary and you’ll find a more comfortable balance soon.

These brands selling their own refurbished products is great news.

It gives you the ability to still support them while not creating directly more e-waste and benefitting from a cheaper price.

Yeah I’m always surprised when people are complaining about the cost to buy (not to produce) a game nowadays.

Where I live, games are way cheaper than they used to be during the Playstation 1 Era and it’s now really easy to buy used games online.

Of course if you buy every season pass or special skin for they used to game, it ends up more expensive.

Well I meant more something like you driving a car fast in an open world and having objects appearing in front of you because everything isn’t loaded yet.

Or landscape disappearing from your rear view mirror in racing games in order to save some memory.

These things wouldn’t cost anything to solve if we gave up some graphical fidelity.

I think it’s crazy that we always want prettier games when you still have visual glitches like cars disappearing in your rearview mirror, buildings and textures appearing late, screen tearing when you make your POV spin.

I don’t really need way better graphics, but I’d need these things gone as they take me out of my game way more than no raytracing or a slight fps drop.

I think these things would be easy to solve if we didn’t always get better graphics.