It's not even about the lower specs, it's the optimization in general.
My PC is a little old, but still fine for most games up to medium settings.
But when I tried FF XVI, which is mentioned in the article, I couldn't get anything close to acceptable performance with everything turned as low as possible and looking like shit.
Yeah, gotta have that and all that Secure Boot with TPM bullshit, because I'm visualizing a company workstation and nothing will work without those.
Because for some reason, no matter what I try, Windows 10 desktop is laggy as hell on Qemu, and smooth out of the box on VirtualBox.
Sure you can. wink wink 🏴☠️
I got the disc version for used games too, but the sad truth is that where I live there isn't really a market for used games.
Or, well, there is, but the prices on used discs are often barely below retail price, if you can even find a copy.
It's not like physical media makes any difference anyway these days.
Actual disk often gets just a glorified installer, and even if it includes the entire game you're likely to have to activate it online anyway.
The "own your games" ship has sailed long ago, unless you only buy no-DRM and your own backups.
One of the reasons being Nvidia forcing unethical vendor lock in through their licensing.
That's a very... capitalist way of thinking.
Also, fun fact: Kagi owner believes only criminals want privacy and GDPR doesn't apply to them, because they said so!
It might help if your country isn't paranoid about such made up concepts as "cultural appropriation". :)
Which is kinda amusing, since USA is literally made up of several different cultures.
I don't know why people are saying this is a well written article - the author seems to be bewildered that a game that looks good is bad.
It's really not that complicated. At the end of the day it's a game and gameplay is the single most important feature.
Just look at Breath of the Wild: it doesn't look particularly amazing, and it runs like shit on the only hardware it's available on.
But it's the great gameplay that keeps people coming back for more.
XVI != XIV :)