Playing games at minimal resolution is unacceptable? Or is “being able to play at all” better than “not being able to play at all”? Will you buy a new PC if you can no longer play on “Ultra”? That’s what “Mein MMO asks” is about today.
If you buy a console, you can firmly expect to be able to play the titles of the coming years. After all, all games on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are optimized for their respective consoles. This eliminates the need for expensive hardware upgrades. But those are just the “dirty Console Peasants.” The colleagues from the “PC Master Race” have to deal with questions every few months:
- Can my graphics card still handle the next Battlefield at 60 fps?
- Is my RAM sufficient for Destiny 2?
- Is my hard drive large enough for the new WoW addon?
- Is my floppy drive still adequate for the “Monster Hunter World” installation?
If you can’t afford a completely new computer under your desk every year, you’ll have to make compromises on graphics or performance. But does a game still actually fun then? Or does a game lose its appeal if you can’t squeeze out the optimum performance?
That’s why we want to know from you: How important is it to you that a game runs optimally and with the best graphics settings? Can you enjoy games only with maximum performance?
Or is perfect graphics only a secondary concern and far behind the fun of being able to play the game at all?
Cortyn says: Sure – messing around with 2 frames per second in Minecraft is only fun for about 5 minutes. But back when I wanted to play Evolve on my old computer, I always said a prayer in the Nether that the game wouldn’t crash during the loading screen. It ran poorly even on the lowest settings – but that didn’t dampen the fun much. A truly captivating game doesn’t need awesome graphics for me, but it’s certainly a nice bonus.
In principle, I have a simple indicator of when my computer is “ripe” again. As soon as World of Warcraft can no longer be played on the highest settings, an upgrade is necessary. Not because WoW has any particularly significant influence on me but because I still associate the game with the saying “WoW runs on any computer” – and if mine can no longer handle it at the best settings, then an upgrade is in order.
But now to you: Do you always need maximum performance? Are you so-called “graphics whores”? Or are medium or even low settings sufficient as long as the gameplay is convincing?
