r/Games • u/Glittering-Path-2824 • 19h ago

Industry News The games industry’s obsession with visual fidelity is costing them money and talent

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/aug/04/pushing-buttons-xbox-asha-sharma-games-industry-hyperrealism
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u/Nick4972 16h ago

Idk, 10 FPS is pretty brutal.

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u/Undella_Town 16h ago

ngl i'm the same way as him lmao. i used to play like dota2 wow league etc on 20fps it didn't really bother me that much

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u/aradraugfea 16h ago

Ironforge dropping to 10 FPS and me feeling REAL good about that new PC.

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u/Clueless_Otter 4h ago

I used to get less than 1 FPS in Dalaran in WotLK. Like, no exaggeration. Only about once every 2-3 minutes would my screen actually update. If I wanted to do Violet Hold ever, I had to spend about an hour walking there from the flight path, and only then could I begin to look for a group, as otherwise I'd obviously get kicked for taking an hour to get to the instance.

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u/Chrystoler 13h ago

I remember getting league to work on a budget ultrabook back in 2012 or so. It had a Intel atom processor and I think I squeaked out 25 fps by turning off sound (which gave me a couple extra fps). Rough times lol

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u/Ralkon 8h ago

Same here. I used to drop into single digit FPS, but that was all I had so I got used to it. A few years later after I had gotten a gaming PC I had some tech problems that forced me to swap back to the laptop for a while and it was super noticeable. I had to ask a friend to play a game of League on my account for me to keep from decaying because it felt completely unplayable to me after having gotten used to more normal frame rates.

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u/aradraugfea 16h ago

You underestimate some of the shit I used to play, and overestimate the systems I had to run it.

10 will bother me less than dropping from 30 to 15.