The "30fps campaign, 60fps multiplayer" approach

[Mr Puggsly]

Conina said:

Mr Puggsly said:

I'm pointing out the specs that appear to be most common on Steam statistics are less powerful than current gen consoles. Its unlikely many of those machines can play modern graphical showcases at 60 fps if at all.

For example, I have a low end video card that should be able to handle CS:GO and DOTA at 60 fps. But that doesn't mean I can run high end 8th gen games well even at low settings.

As long as Steam doesn't make individual hardware stats for every game (or at least for the popular games) it is still mostly blind guessing in which resolution and with how many fps these games are played on PC.

Valve has the data... it would be easy for them to offer filtered hardware stats of every Witcher 3 or Doom (2016) or Skyrim owner. Then we would have a better base for discussions.

Why include every laptop in the "average settings" which haven't even access to the game or don't even fulfill the minimal requirements of the game?

I see what you're saying, but specs are a limitiing factor on what people play.

Which is why many popular games tend to be designed for lower end specs.