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

[Demetri_Delethorn]

*continues to play FF14 on PS4 Pro at 60fps*

[linay]

I'm having fun playing on PC with a controller at 8-24 FPS while standing quietly alone outside the FC house. /shrug

[SerLuke]

I've ceased responding to that guy since he started making fun of me for being on the autistic spectrum on his now deleted comment, no point in continuing with someone like that.

[Evergrey]

Well I am curious.
You can also just link the thread so I can have a look myself.

[Komarimono]

Well I am curious.
You can also just link the thread so I can have a look myself.

You can find it in the thread about PS4 players wanting a parse. Only time I saw mention of console peasants and they haven't deleted any posts either from what I've seen.

While they weren't the nicest in their delivery, they are correct though in that people choose to use a platform of their own choice, that doesn't support what they want, so something they have to live with.

Pretty much it really, I just think some people need to thicken their skin some. PC Master Race and Console Peasants has been a funny tit and tat back and forth for so many years now, am just shocked people get offended by it. Personally I'm a majority PC master race, since quite hard to go back to sub 60 FPS and 144hz after being exposed to it for so long, strains the eyes since they were being spoiled. But I still enjoy my 3DS and Switch, don't own any other consoles though anymore.

[Nedkel]

No where did I insult "PC Users" I own a copy of the game for my laptop even though I mostly play on my PS4 Pro, what I did call childish was the attitude that people think they are better than others because they own a high end PC and call people who play on PS4 peasants. I think its great to game on PC and even talk about performance/hardware and what not, like I said what I was calling childish was the "I'm better than you cause I'm on PC and you are a console peasant" I've seen on multiple posts from multiple people

This all PCmasterrace meme is reffering to the choice itself and not to the human playing X.
Pc master race because you have freedom, you could multi task, you could play any mmorpg on the market, you could parse your runs, mod your game, play on any controller you want even a ps3 one, be a pirate and do whatever you basically want.
Decent PC is not expensive to buy.
This one will play this game at 90+ fps easily and is only 600$.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/7hHyw6

[HWalsh]

Pretty much all it is is the back and forth - Nobody means anything by it.

PC Master Race became a thing in the early 90's when PC gaming outstripped console gaming by a mile. Basically when FMV was hitting its stride. Until then Console Games were almost always better (with the exception of the Adventure Genre). Action, racing, and platformer games were always better on console until that point.

At least until Wolfenstein 3D came out. Suddenly there was a deluge of awesome action games that Console Gamers just couldn't play. This is where PC Master Race came from. It was a reference, specifically, to Wolfenstein 3D.

Then CD-ROMs took off and suddenly PC games were just gorgeous - Though it was still a war - Console games killed on action/platformer/fighting/JRPG while PC was Adventure/Racing/Sim/FPS.

The Sega CD tried to compete but failed.

Console Peasant came about as a term during the Playstation era. PS was bringing PC quality graphics and Console quality controls to the party. Console Games far overtook PC games in popularity (With a few genre exceptions - FPS was solely the domain of PC gamers) whereas RPGs were pretty much exclusive to consoles.

The crown jewel of which was (of course) Final Fantasy 7 - Released in 1997 - whereas PC gamers had to wait until late1998 for what turned out to be an inferior version.

It wasn't until the early 2000's that PCs would start re-overtaking console games on the whole. Even then it was more genre-determined.

If you liked some games you went PC others you went console.

The real innovation, and what ended the war in favor of PC, was when wired Xbox controllers could work on PC. Suddenly console controls on more powerful hardware combined with services like Steam.

Almost all titles were cross platforming and thus the battle was won.

(Console gamers are still vastly more prevalent.)

This has been your useless truncated history lesson.

[RareItems]

PC players have a large advantage over PS4 Players.

PC Players, especially the ones doing "Endgame Content" usually use lots of 3rd party apps ranging from Parsers, Overlays to programs automatically executing actions for them depending on situations lol.

[Saintly]

If only they released EX content clear rates/stats by platform.
Oh boy! This forum would produce more salt than China, US and India combined.

[HWalsh]

PC players have a large advantage over PS4 Players.

PC Players, especially the ones doing "Endgame Content" usually use lots of 3rd party apps ranging from Parsers, Overlays to programs automatically executing actions for them depending on situations lol.

This is an unsubstantiated claim. Doing so would get them banned. That's nothing but a conspiracy theory. I know MANY raiders who don't use overlays or automated macros.