Quote Originally Posted by LianaThorne View Post
The amount of people I've seen so far saying they'll need to upgrade their PCs to meet recommended is alarming tbh.
Anyone who has to upgrade their PC is either running a pretty old PC or shooting for high frame rates and/or high resolution.

For example, I'd been running FFXIV at 4K on an i7-6700 and a GTX1080 until recently, and it ran fine at about 60fps.
That's a 8 year old GPU and a 9 year old CPU, so of course an upgrade from that will be needed.

The new recommended specs are also for pretty old components: the i7-7700 was launched in 2017, and the GTX 2060 in 2019; and the latter was a mid-range component when it launched.