Thread 719701803

Why has PC Gaming fallen ?

Steam and Valve ruined it, nothing to do with expensive flagship RTX cards

Graphicsfags ruined everything.

>>719701887
this and even worse developers only develop for them now, causing massive system requirement bloat

>>719701887
>color movies ruined silent film cinema

>>719701887
Came in here to post this

5060ti is enough for everything

>>719701957
Color was revolutionary. Adding individual hairs on someone's model is not. Graphics have not made any worthwhile advances for nearly two decades now.

>>719701957
Color didn't make cinema stagnate, unlike graphics fags.

>>719701803 (OP)
AI and its consequences have been a disaster for the master race

>>719701803 (OP)
"Why bother optimizing if you can brute force everything with enough computing power?" - Every game studio since UE5 launched

>>719702245
>>719702280
Games like the Witcher, Cyberpunk, Yakuza and Resident Evil greatly benefit from photoreal graphic
cope and seethe millennial. the days of cartoony PS2 graphics and PS360 piss and shit filters are over

>>719701803 (OP)
5090 costs that and still cant run GTA 6 on release. What garbage.

>I need the newest top of the line components or else gaming is ltierally impossible
I don't like goyvidia, but I'm kinda glad they're filtering the absolute goycattle that would otherwise infest the gaming community.

>>719701803 (OP)
>Could've bought a top of the line PC with a GTX 580 with 2k in 2011
Holy fuck, is a market crash coming or something?

>>719701803 (OP)
No one wanted you to be rich.

consoomers who ate these prices up

>>719701803 (OP)
I don't even play AAA slop that requires this.

>>719701803 (OP)
It's beautiful

The PC Master Race marketing campaign worked too well, so now console sheep who should've been penned in with the rest of their ilk forced their way in. Demand goes up, so do the components, and then the quality dips.

Arrogance bit them in the ass, they did it to themselves.

>>719701803 (OP)
The company is worth 4 trillion US dollars. They hold all the resources in this area and can do anything to you and you're not allowed to take their stuff or the government will lock you in a cage. It's called civilisation.

The crypto boom showed Nvidia that they can charge whatever the fuck they want and get away with it, can you blame them?
Until they get some actual competition it's only gonna be worse.
CPUs are going down the same path, Intel shit the bed and is losing the desktop market fast, so AMD is gonna bump the prices as well

>>719701803 (OP)
>manufacturers see what Nvidia is doing
>Literally every single piece of PC hardware skyrockets their prices
>games are so bloated that it's impossible to brute force your way to good performance with enough money
just play old shit at this point and wait for the great reset

>>719701803 (OP)
cryptominers hogging all the cards and creating artificial scarcity

>>719708774
this, cryptoniggers dont care about PC Gamers and along with developers refusing to optimize for lower cards because they want gamers to only play on the newest shit, this is why a lot of normalfags are starting to return to consoles, its doesn't make any financial sense to be forced to upgrade every 2 years when the current consoles will cover you for at least the next 8-10 years

>>719701803 (OP)
My favorite part is anyone who bought an 8GB VRAM GPU in 2020-2025 (still to this day sold) have purchased e-waste that isn't even good for native 1080p modern PC ports of PS5 era. So they shamefully sell their bad graphic cards and buy a new one from NVIDIA for the low price of 600-900 dollars for the middle tier 16GB GPU. After calculating the loss of their first GPU, they're well over 1000 dollars into NVIDIA's pockets.

That's what PC gaming is Uzzy nsilvias trannies.

>>719701887
it was fine before cryptobros took over video cards
now it's AI bros

>>719708774
>2017 Cryptomining
>2020 COVID tourists, AI bots purchasing, 8GB VRAM cancer grips the industry
>2024 AI graphic cards dominate NVIDIA's market (90% profit is AI cards) and Unreal Engine 5/new hire developers are dogshit at porting PC games
As you can see the last decade for PC gaming has been astonishingly bad for consumers. Incidentally the GTX 1000 Pascal family was released right before the shit really hit the fan, it is noted for being the best value NVIDIA family of cards in different tiers from entry GTX 1050Ti to the GTX 1060 middle tier to the higher 1070 and 1080 tiers with a lot of VRAM for their day. Raytracing has also had a major impact in PC games performance.