You are correct; and I admit my rig is ancient; I am glad I bought the life time pass as it’s been a saving, but I won’t upgrade my PC just for 1 element of DLC. Regards the argument of progress I disagree, but feel that is a matter of perspective.As for LEP refund, there are threads on the forum on that and IIRC it's really not easy to get one.
There are two sides of the same coin. Why should someone who understands that computer hardware obsoletes with time, and upgraded along the way, be "punished" by not receiving the new planetary tech and improvements which came with Odyssey? Maybe they're as uninterested in the 3% additional gameplay as you, but want to see better planets and stuff? I can take it even further, why I as a PC user, have to be brought in line with sub-par hardware (last gen consoles)? They're cheaper option, they can have cheaper graphics, no? Unfortunately it doesn't work that way (read: it is expensive for it to work in that way).
You could say "just buy Odyssey", right? But it still isn't as simple as you think. For example - I'm not buying Odyssey until a proper VR mode is built in. I don't have a LEP, I can vote with my wallet on this one, despite being really interested in what Odyssey offers. If they don't build a proper VR mode in, I will wait for a large discount to buy it because I refuse to support it in its current form.
As for optimising - there is a point to which you can optimise. Optimising for obsolete DirectX versions for example - some things just won't work, and maintaining different codebases for different configurations is not really fun (and cheap). There is a point when you need to cut it - and that's exactly what happened with the Mac version. When optimising, you're not making new features which will bring new clients in, you're just placating your userbase. And the "die-hards" on prehistoric equipment are usually the ones that are "uninterested in fps pew-pew", despite Odyssey being much more than that. Plus, other developers are cutting out older DX versions, I believe frontier did that already by the way. Whether or not they did a good job on optimising Odyssey is another matter but if you want to really have a say in that, you'd need to buy stocks... and a lot of them
Computer hardware needs to be updated every few years. It's called progress and being angry for that is... silly in my opinion. It's a pity you need to upgrade during the pandemic when prices went crazy - but it will pass eventually. There are millions of other games to play in the meantime.
With time, yes I may well go down that route, but only to factor in other things; right now my rig still outperforms even my works PC, gaming is not a prerequisite of mine, I am generally just bitter at the state of Odyssey in general, the only reason graphics are required a boost is to enable the foot based gameplay, and because obviously if they don’t merge them they end up with a spilt community and separate instances, I understand that. But the game as is on vanilla Horizons looks wonderful, it I’m sure without Odyssey textures, walking around on surfaces would look ugly and laggy, but as it is, it looks beautiful,
Yet my concern is it doesn’t warrant a new rig / card just to play it, if FPS are your thing good, but that is all FDO is, a bolt on FPS with some nice detailed graphics (not amazing I point out, not even by some older gen console standards), but that’s good if you want that, if you want the details but not if you’re happy with the vanilla game, FD are forcing this on everyone, that’s what I have a beef about. I’m not after a refund, just playing devils advocate, and just acknowledging FD are punishing customers who already own a product, again this is one of the reasons some of us older duffers wanted an offline mode, less fuss, less to pay in the long run.
If I wasn’t a lifetime pass holder I wouldn’t buy FDO, not because I couldn’t run it, because if I wanted to I would, it’s no concern; but because I feel EDO is actually substandard, if there was more content other than FPS, such as an actual ‘Armstrong’ moment, cabin / ship interiors, actually being able to buy a drink at a bar; generally anything more than the amateurish stuff we’ve seen in Alpha, I would consider a new card. And I still hope all that is around the corner - I would literally go buy a new card just for that alone, but not just FPS pew-pew. Life’s too short, plus any content FD are hiding I bet we won’t see for another 12 months just so they can get their money’s worth.
Rant over, but you are correct; excuse me I’m just an old duffer and I’m experiencing a wine outage.
Right now I’m I happy with Horizons and I would like them not to take that option away from us.
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