[Dev] Overtaxation of PC Hardware

[MonsieurVerde]

I'm well aware there's no "standard" specs....that's not the point.

The point is that the games' engine is about as optimized as a soda can. The engine runs like crap, period....when new games come out, like Crysis 2, and I can max everything in it, and then look at the Witcher 2, which also looks like I can max.....to not max a game from last year, and an MMO no less (which are supposed to be less hoggy than SP games, not the other way around), it doesn't make any sense, and it certainly doesn't make people that don't have 3 grande to spend want to play your game. Other MMO's that just launched (Rift for example) can run on a lot of things, and yea, you need some decent hardware to max it....but then too it has a decent engine that will likely last a long time. You don't need to create some engine that's way ahead of its time in order to remain current graphically.

Crysis II is a CONSOLE PORT By default it is meant to run on the Xbox or PS3 both of which are four year old pieces of hardware, Of course you can max it out. -_- An MMO will ALWAYS be more demanding than a single player game as single player games have finite amounts of resources to load.

You do NOT need 3 grand to play this game. Hell, it would only take 500$ at this point to make a set-up at the reccomended settings not that you can't play it on less. Also, Rift uses the Gamebryo Engine...which is a rather ancient engine at this point so it wouldn't be too hard to max it.