Are exclusives anti-consumer?

[DonFerrari]

Pemalite said:

DonFerrari said:

In Uncharted and Gran Turismo the microtransactions are pointless and needless. You can play perfectly fine and full without them. Can't comment on the rest though.

Even more when we compare to lootboxes and EA scandal.

Same could be said about Halo 5. They aren't needed, they are still there though.

Microtransactions are Microtransactions in my eyes, I would rather the world be without them in it's entirety.

SvennoJ said:

And doesn't Battlefield have ray tracing implemented for the new NVidea RTX cards? Ah, it's unlocked now for older cards as well
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-real-time-ray-tracing-tested-on-gtx-pascal-hardware.

Games made for PC have more options, run better in different resolutions and frame rates, let you navigate menus with the mouse. Exclusives are good for PC as well.

Metro is another franchise that pushes the PC.

SvennoJ said:

Meanwhile on PC I got locked out of playing Elite Dangerous any further until I upgraded my hardware. On the plus side, now I've got a new gaming laptop it looks phenomenal again.

Your PC must be extremely antiquated.
Here it is running on a Core 2 Quad Q6600. (Year 2006)



Rest of the system is your bog standard 8GB Ram.
And on the GPU front a Radeon 4830 (2008) is enough to run the game. (Aka. Direct X 10 GPU hardware.)



When is an appropriate cut-off point for old hardware to be able to run the latest games in your eyes on the PC? I don't see an Xbox or Playstation from 2006/2008 running Elite Dangerous?

I certainly prefer games without MTx and DLCs only being made and release like 1 year after original launch with substantial content as was the case in the past with expansions, or couple of Sony efforts this gen on the Infamous Second Light and Uncharted Lost Legacy.

Still if the alternative is lower games or more expensive. I would accept it.