Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes

• Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The eye rolling would be justified if the 30FPS was on something like a 3070 or something like that, but when the complaint comes from someone sporting a 5090, well…

  If the game runs at 30FPS on the latest, greatest top-of-the-line card from Nvidia, imagine what kind of performance people are getting from 4060s or RX6600s…

  A game that’s this badly optimised is a disrespect to all gamers.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is that what the situation is? I think that’s also only the case on 4k with brutal mode enabled or whatever.

    Obviously that’s still not great if so, but I’d still put it in the eyeroll category personally. I don’t really feel butthurt if I have to run at 1080p or enable vlss or not get 120fps or whatever, especially on day 1 for a game.

    But I come from an era where there were games you had to shrink some 3d games lower than 320x200 to get a playable 10fps, so I’m also probably feeling some “back in my day we walked uphill both ways - kids today” energy here. What do I know.

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    • Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You had the luxury of 320x200 ? What were you playing on, a Cray Supercomputer ? /s

      The thing is, we keep being bombarded by promises of how spectacular and wonderful New Game X will be, just to be punched in the face by stuff that falls short of that. This emotional roller coaster has actual costs, not only in terms of money, but also mental and emotional health. Is the reason why some countries, like mine (Brazil), have consumer protection laws that explicitly prohibits misleading advertising. And yes, showing a beautiful demo on a trade show counts, to then deliver a half-assed product falls squarely on the misleading advertisement category. This means people (at least here) can expect a certain level of performance and polish from games, this being backed by law.

      Basically, is not about feeling entitled, is about ensuring our rights as consumers are not trampled by devs.

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