Benchmark is telling us something...

[Alestorm]

It's unfortunate that a lot of people need to upgrade their PC's for Stormblood, but this is also a bit of a wake up call since if you need to upgrade for this you'll need to for more modern games as well. Good thing I rebuilt my system a few months back.

[dragonseth07]

Replacing a cpu isn't something a lot of us could do
And it's not just any part..it's the cpu that stormblood is really asking a lot of

It's certainly a better investment than buying a whole PS4...

[St0rmchild]

Buy a ps4
That's the impression I'm getting since it old CPUs are going to struggle so much

No thanks, I'm not goin to wait for "ps4 limitations"

My 3 year old rig passed the SB benchmark with flying colors ... but I'm still going to upgrade

[Stitches1974]

No thanks, I'm not goin to wait for "ps4 limitations"

My 3 year old rig passed the SB benchmark with flying colors ... but I'm still going to upgrade

Same. Will most likely upgrade my ram, cpu, and mobo this fall.

[Rysir]

My computer is kinda dated but its still got enough muscle to pass for extremely high so not that bad I think.

[Airget]

Anything over 7k is icing on the cake. Take a look at the graph they provided

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchm...n=na_benchmark

It's at the bottom, it has 3 negative, under 1k, 1k-1499, 1.5k-1999, with only under 1k being considered unplayable.

2 middle rating 2k-2499 and 2.5k-3499 which suggest it can be played at standard setting

And finally 3 top tier rankoing, 3.5k-4999, 5k-6999 and 7k+ which all state the game is easily playable with said specs.

So even though you might have a 5k rating and feel inadequate towards someone who scored 12k, don't, your rig is fine.

[TsurugiKoutetsu]

Outside of the graphics card I got early in the year most of my stuff is a few years old and I still managed to get a little over 10k on the benchmark,if you're struggling to reach high then it's time for a upgrade.

[ErikMynhier]

And here I thought PC was the master race....

*flame shields up!

[Jetstream_Fox]

It's certainly a better investment than buying a whole PS4...

Not necessarily, if they're going to struggle running 4.0 there is a huge possibility that anything new is likely going to be pushing their system to the breaking point. Also if you have a laptop you can't really upgrade the cpu as easily as you could as desktop, and if you're going to throw a new cpu into your rig, a new i7 you'll still be sitting at roughly 300-400 for it. Could get a later gen ya, but that's not something I would do.

[ToasterMan]

Not necessarily, if they're going to struggle running 4.0 there is a huge possibility that anything new is likely going to be pushing their system to the breaking point. Also if you have a laptop you can't really upgrade the cpu as easily as you could as desktop, and if you're going to throw a new cpu into your rig, a new i7 you'll still be sitting at roughly 300-400 for it. Could get a later gen ya, but that's not something I would do.

Yeah I'm with this too. I know you're just talking about CPU's here but I think with everyone that found out they needed to upgrade wouldn't need just a new a new CPU. They would need a graphics card, in which a decent one would run you about 200-400 dollars. If the machines are REALLY old, then they might need to get a new motherboard, new ram, etc. I spent about 1500 dollars building the computer I have right now and that was a little under 3 years ago. If it got to that point, I'd personally recommend just getting a PS4 if you don't care playing the game with high end hardware.