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>Most commercial computer games require very powerful computers. This means that a less-wealthy person cannot play online games with their more-wealthy friends.
by xabotage 10y ago
>Most commercial computer games require very powerful computers. This means that a less-wealthy person cannot play online games with their more-wealthy friends. This is especially a problem for young people, for whom gaming is an important social activity.
This. I'd love to try out a variety of fun Half-Life 2 or Quake 3 mods (which all work just fine on an old, low-end laptop running Linux), but everyone I could conceivably play them with is too preoccupied with Overwatch, Battlefront, Call of Duty 36, or whatever closed-server, walled-platform, resource-intensive game came out within the past year or two. Open Arena? These graphics look old, it must suck.
- gambiting 10y agoOverwatch will run on some ancient hardware, just like any other blizzard game. Unless your laptop can literally just about run HL2 and Q3....then I really find it hard to sympathize, things can be expected to run on low and oldish spec, but something that's decade old won't even run Chrome or Firefox smoothly, and games have become more computational intensive, not just because of graphics.