Almost every gamer is affected by the currently skyrocketing RAM prices. Now the head of Larian, the developers behind Baldur’s Gate 3 and the Divinity announced at the Game Awards, has said they are also affected.
What exactly did the head of Larian say? Swen Vincke, the head of Larian, gave an interview for thegamer.com. There he talks about the developments of Divinity and how it is influenced by RAM and SSD prices.
Especially the work on the game now has to be adjusted by Larian. Vincke says the following: “It most likely means that we will have to do a lot of optimization work during Early Access that we actually didn’t want to do at this time. So it’s challenging, but they are video games.”
How is Larian affected by the prices? Swen Vincke explains why RAM prices are throwing everything into chaos for Larian:
This basically disrupts all previous forecasts because normally you know the developments and can plan the hardware accordingly.
He further states that they would normally know the development of the hardware and plan accordingly. The situation is also new for Larian, and Vincke remarks on RAM prices:
Interestingly, another [problem] is actually the price of RAM and SSDs, and damn, man. It’s literally as if we’ve never experienced anything like this before.
Players hope that developers consider old hardware
How are players reacting to this news? In the PC gaming subreddit, the article from thegamer.com was shared.
The Reddit user QuinSanguine hopes that the developers realize that many gamers are still using older hardware. Over 2,300 other users agreed with him, and many pointed out that they too still use older hardware (as of 18.12.25, at 11:30 AM).
Reddit user ggRavingGamer has a clear opinion and claims that building PCs is currently dead, as no one would spend 400 – 500 euros for 32 gigabytes of RAM. Over 1,400 users also agreed with him (as of 18.12.25, at 11:30 AM).
How could the situation end? ggRavinGamer sees only two possibilities for how the situation can end and writes: “Either AI starts to make real money, and we are done for, or the AI bubble bursts, we get everything cheap next year, the stock market crashes, and we are done for too.”
He refers to one of the reasons why RAM prices have risen so drastically, as AI companies have bought large amounts of memory: After large companies have been buying up graphics cards for years and driving prices up, now another component is affected
