When did calling PS4 players “console peasants” become acceptable?

[Gaethan_Tessula]

[FONT="Franklin Gothic Medium"][SIZE="3"] Consoles are holding back development, it has been stated several times in interviews - and it's obvious. If you go and develop for 4-year old systems that can't be upgraded, what do you think is the outcome? Look at the "PS3 limitations" this game suffered while PC players had plenty of VRAM left but had to look at bad textures or there were even NPCs moved because the console could not handle it (in one patch note they moved NPC in Revenant's Toll due to the PS3 having massive frame rate issues - let that sink in).

Console gaming is also still more popular in Japan than PC, and FF MMO's have had a long legacy on console. Square Enix has to consider their home market, so holding back development or not 14 will continue to support console, likely until its run its course and gone into maintenance mode a la FF11. At least in 14 you can still play the game on an equal footing between platforms; PC was miles better in FF11 just based on how much easier it was to do gearswap macros alone.

2. There seems to be this inferiority complex going on regarding jobs. I'm not doubting min wage jobs suck. But it's temporary - as you get older and work on career/school/marketable skills you will move on and be able to afford nicer things, it's how it goes. (And if you aren't moving along, maybe ask yourself how you're prioritizing your time and work/life balance. MMOs are a great hobby but don't let that come at the expense of your career.)

I think you underestimate the reality of late-stage capitalism. Power concentrates ever upward, and true upward mobility becomes scarcer every generation.

I have a Master's degree and a state geologist's license, and it still took me a year post-grad school to find a job in my field. In that time, I worked at a grocery store gas station which thankfully had a union attached. I met a lot of great coworkers, people who are essentially trapped by these sorts of undercompensated service industry jobs. I saw firsthand how the employer fought the union, tooth and nail, to even take away the meek wages and benefits we already had, let alone consider paying their workers a living wage for the region we were situated in. How they tried to cut out higher paying jobs (why pay for professional meatcutters at $22/hour when you can make "courtesy clerks" do any job in the store for over $10 less?) and automate as much as they could (ripped out nearly all the non-"self service" lines. Union did a poll of customers, found they preferred manned lines, they took that to the employer and the employer sneered "they'll get used to it").

For more and more people, min or near-min wage jobs are not temporary. They are a career. And anyone working full time for a living deserves a livable wage. Full stop.

Pc master race Vs Console peasants is a meme.

Take it easy!

Memes, even the "joke" ones, are the fundamental building blocks of transmissible cultural ideas. "The DNA of the soul" as Metal Gear once put it. Being a meme or a joke does not put an idea above criticism, and I do think there's something unpleasant about framing anything relating to unequal power dynamics in terms used by racial supremacists.

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Ah, I just went and made this thread 10x worse, didn't I?