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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This just seems like they are trying to take a shortcut that might end up having unforeseen consequences. I have no problem with AI upscaling as a technology. It's already proven its merit with almost all triple A games that have come out in the past few years. But this just seems like a way to push the cost off onto consumers by making them buy more expensive hardware at the cost of efficiency. Games are so poorly optimized these days that this just seems like another way to release games that run like ass. If you see this as a benefit in any way, just remember that we will all be paying the extra cost that they get to save.

And of course there's gonna be people that'll just be like "upgrade your PC, bro" which just makes us fight amongst ourselves instead of fighting the companies that are fucking us over. We'll fight each other for hours on end about how shitty someone's PC is before we even consider that the game they are playing is so poorly optimized it's a miracle it even works on a high end PC. It's already to the point that a $4,000 PC isn't even enough to play some common triple A titles at a good frame rate. I can play God of War at the highest setting with no issues whatsoever but can't even play Jedi Survivor at a stable frame rate. Sure a better PC would achieve better results, but that's not a hardware issue.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Maybe gamers should star withholding money... that's the most effective way to regulate these clowns. Deny them profit unless their product/service DESERVES to be rewarded.

Remember every time you give a shiti company money, you are feeding your enemy. They turn around and use this money to enslave you as worker AND customer.

Last 15 years clearly painted a picture of who and what we are dealing with... don't collaborator with the corpo oppressor. something about six foot pole...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Games are so poorly optimized these days

Yeah. Valheim runs with 2 FPS in the menu on my iGPU that runs even badly optimized Ark Survival on medium settings.