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fps_d0minat0r on 19 May 2015
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Arkaign said:
fps_d0minat0r said:

 


 

ok let me ask you two questions.

1) What spec of PC do you think would be required to run the witcher 3 as it was originally showed, before the downgrade?

2) Take an educated guess as to how many PC gamers will have these builds.

 

My answers would be

1) atleast an i7/GTX970

2) the minority

 

Therefore, for the majority who dont have that, wont be disappointed by the 'downgrade' since they were not going to be able to play it at the higher setting anyway. When people bought expensive PC's that money went to hardware manufacturers, CD projeckt got nothing and therefore they dont owe it to you to make software that justifies your hardware purchase.

If you think it looks pants then fine, but most gamers know it runs as good as it can be on their hardware.

You speak as if PC gamers will just buy the game and most will set it to ultra and it will run ok because 'it looks pants' anyway. Thats not how it works.

The thing is that PC games can have really long legs, particularly if they scale well. It's nice to see games that offer what may seem like excessive settings (ironically like the Witcher 2 'ubersampling') because the hardware WILL come.

Ideally you have :

Low end settings in the realm of somewhat playable with mediocre hardware

Midrange settings in the realm of PS4/X1

High end settings that go beyond the current top end cards

We have 390X, Pascal, sub-20nm, all kinds of stuff coming soon, so leaving in the better graphics options for PC wouldn't have been a bad idea. For now maybe only high end people could run it, but HBM + dieshrinks and a midrange card in 2016 might make a 980 look slow, while a high end card in mid/late 2016 will laugh at today's SLI/CF stuff.

At least downsampling in drivers from 4K to 1080 and mods can help. Skyrim stock vs. Skyrim heavily modded is incredibly impressive for example.

Now if they simply didn't have the resources to live up to their 2013 goals, fine. Regardless of source (MS, Sony, CDPR, whoever), I'm REALLY tired at this point of the bullshots and intentionally misleading 'early' footage, trailers, etc. Yes, anyone who knows the industry knows to expect it, but it's still annoying. What's wrong with a little honesty? I remember the X1 Forza 5 gameplay they had on the Jimmy Fallon show, and we came to find out later that was the pre-downgrade version running on a ludicrous PC, with the final version being downgraded pretty heavily. Sony has done similar I'm sure, and it just seems to be too tempting for people to BS as much as they can get away with until they get closer to release, and then : "Oh, it's not downgraded!".

True, but once again, its not worth investing in futureproofing the game since the number of people playing it on upgraded PC's years down the line will be very small compared to everyone that wants a good running version of the game right now. The priority should be the people buying the game now, not the people who will buy this 5 years later because its $1 flash sale and they are curious to see how far it can push their hardware.