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Clickbait thread title aside, I was thinking about this the other day. Is the fact that PUBG runs like a pig been good for hardware manufacturers, and the PC gaming community as a whole?
I have personally had to upgrade 3 systems (wife's, friends, and family members) just to be able to play PUBG at reasonable visual quality, and framerates. Without this game, it probably would have been a couple of years before any of these systems saw an upgrade. That's the part that is good for the hardware manufacturers. The part that's good for the gamers, is that now they are enjoying a better gaming experience on the other games they play, and at least with a couple of them, has had them branch out to some other games that they probably wouldn't have tried a few months ago.
I'm not advocating for poorly optimized games, but it seems like we need a title like this every couple of years, that's basically a must play title, but is going to push people to upgrade their hardware. It seems like it's been awhile since we have had a title like this.
I'm hoping that this game will continue to increase in popularity and become one of the standard esports titles, like CS:GO, DOTA, Rocket League, LOL, etc. Those games have certainly done good things for computer gaming, but PUBG could really push the hardware side forward like none of the other esports titles have, and push manufacturers to release faster, cheaper hardware on an accelerated schedule.
I have personally had to upgrade 3 systems (wife's, friends, and family members) just to be able to play PUBG at reasonable visual quality, and framerates. Without this game, it probably would have been a couple of years before any of these systems saw an upgrade. That's the part that is good for the hardware manufacturers. The part that's good for the gamers, is that now they are enjoying a better gaming experience on the other games they play, and at least with a couple of them, has had them branch out to some other games that they probably wouldn't have tried a few months ago.
I'm not advocating for poorly optimized games, but it seems like we need a title like this every couple of years, that's basically a must play title, but is going to push people to upgrade their hardware. It seems like it's been awhile since we have had a title like this.
I'm hoping that this game will continue to increase in popularity and become one of the standard esports titles, like CS:GO, DOTA, Rocket League, LOL, etc. Those games have certainly done good things for computer gaming, but PUBG could really push the hardware side forward like none of the other esports titles have, and push manufacturers to release faster, cheaper hardware on an accelerated schedule.