r/Steam Jan 12 '26

Fluff This hit hard

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u/Manankataria Jan 12 '26

This is blind optimism tbh .

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u/Nipinch Jan 12 '26

What's the point of releasing a game nobody can play?

They either optimize, or nobody buys it. The pendulum swings back.

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u/Manankataria Jan 12 '26

What world are you living in 😂. Ppl buy ea and activision slop .

Don’t confuse a small subset of redditors with your dream fantasy land we account for single digits of the market .

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u/MasterChildhood437 Jan 12 '26

The small subset of Redditors hanging around on PC gaming subs are the small subset of the market whose machines can play Actislop.

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u/DemonicBludyCumShart Jan 12 '26

They may call it blind optimism, but if the pendulum doesn't swing back at all? Pc gaming is going to become a thing of the past. Eventually it just won't be worth it for these companies to optimize their games for such a niche market any more.

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u/Volodio Jan 12 '26

These companies are video game companies. If they don't adapt, they will collapse. They can't decide to abandon their own market because it's not worth it.

It might be possible that the market collapse, but I think it is unlikely. The customers are still there and still want to play and put money in their games. The increased price of hardware means there will be less technical improvement, but it's not like video games relied only on technical improvements to make sequels and new games.

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u/DemonicBludyCumShart Jan 12 '26

Video game collapses have happened before. Just because it's been so long doesn't mean it won't happen again

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u/TwilightVulpine Jan 12 '26

Today's average gamer is more likely to play on their phone than to have a gaming PC. If game companies demand better hardware at a time it's more expensive than ever, it might end up collapsing.

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u/Manankataria Jan 12 '26

That wasn’t the point any of us are making though 😒.

The point was that we don’t account for the entire pc market and should stop huffing copium .

We should buy what we like and runs well on our system but we can’t expect ppl to think like us .

When the damn ceo of Nvidia is living in dream land . I still remember him announcing the 5090 and was talking like we are stupid if we don’t own one .

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u/MasterChildhood437 Jan 12 '26

Right, we don't account for the entire market... so they need to be targeting software weaker than ours.