First one is probably best one - or at least it's how I remember it, it was so long ago. Both Steam and GOG verisions have been updated farily recently to run on modern rigs.

Anything attached to Uplay is basically a dead game.

Pretty much.

And I don't mean it figuratively, I mean literally with their 4 layers of DRM tossed onto some of their games, 5 time installs and no plans for long term support for half of their games. I know EA has basically allowed Battlefront and Titanfall 1 to die on PC (effectively dead MP only based games).

The way Uplay and Origin work means that a good chunk of their games either die a short death, or cease to function due to some layer of DRM either dying or blocking you from going any further. 

Blizzard though, those guys are still stuck on the "gotta have a net connection buddy"  bandwagon.

I'll try to check it on youtube, because on the video that's on Steam for the first game, it doesn't seem to run very well.

You may have seen it at the thread about Nvidia's Gamescon presentation and reveal of the RTX 20x0 parts but, if you haven't, you should know that Nvidia has taken notice of the complains about the poor performance of its new card when using Ray Tracing, and has posted a comparison between the 1080 and the 2080:

https://www.techpowerup.com/247019/nvidia-releases-first-internal-performance-benchmarks-for-rtx-2080-graphics-card

Also, at Videocardz have made a summary of other interesting news about the new cards, like the block diagram of the TU102 chip, Nvidia's new self overclocking tool and the shading performance of the new cards vs Pascal: https://videocardz.com/77696/exclusive-nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-ti-editors-day-leaks

And because not everything has to be Turing, Hexus has a new global contest with an iGame GeForce RTX 2070 Vulcan X OC graphics card as the price: https://hexus.net/tech/features/graphics/121250-win-colorful-igame-geforce-rtx-2070-vulcan-x-oc/

Maybe I'll eat crow, but I still think in current games, with all the settings same, there won't be as much improvements.

Review embargos end on September 14th, so we'll know for certain in 22 days or so.

~50% is what I predicted on Discord, so this is looking pretty good to me.

You're just lucky .