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Post by dbspin » Mon, Sep 29, 2025, 2:41 PM UTC

scott_w wrote: post #359

dbspin wrote: post #302

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Thanks, really appreciate the concrete examples. They're not quite what I was referring to (developer praised by company / media - then attacked for issues with the company beyond their purview), but they do point to a (largely invisible from outside the industry / twitter bubble) truly worrying and frightening level of animosity and aggression pointed towards devs that I wasn't sufficiently aware of.

> They're not quite what I was referring to I don't think you need a case quite this specific because of the following: > then attacked for issues with the company beyond their purview Ultimately, whether an employee is praised or not is completely irrelevant to the nutjobs taking their anger out on them because of something their employer did.

I agree. It's bad in either case. No issue with a game or game engine should ever result in threats of violence or harassment. It's vile to publicly shame, cancel, still less attack individuals for the mistakes of their companies.

My initial skepticism was based in the voluminous amount of false allegations of harassment and misportrayal of valid criticism as harassment that happened at one point several years ago in the games industry.

Post by sombragris » Mon, Sep 29, 2025, 7:50 PM UTC

ben-schaaf wrote: post #446

sombragris wrote: post #401

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If you had s/minimum/recommended I would agree. But no, we are talking about minimum requirements. I submit that a game should be playable even on 10-year old hardware. Of course, the devs can blow the ceiling in their highest settings. Do they need three RTX-7000 series in parallell cooled with liquid nitrogen and eating 3000W of electricity in order to run at the highest/ultra settings? Yeah, be my guest, more powe…

I get where you're coming from, and I do think game devs should put more effort into supporting lower-end hardware. That said, bg3 does run on 10-year old hardware. The minimum requirements lists a gtx 970, released 2014. Which, despite its age, is still 6x faster than your integrated graphics.

Good, but it is still a discrete GPU. My point is that games should be made at least playable on integrated GPUs.

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