I mean, don’t get me wrong, it is noticeably easier to see stuff in ULQ, but the flipside is my ULQ only system framerate will spontaneously implode when some in game events occur.
But it’s not as if people with a NASA Supercomputer are barred from using ULQ if they really want (why? The game looks gorgeous on max, if you can run it)
He’s ignoring the fact not all people will spend their money in a perfectly rational way.
Someone playing on a laptop can’t upgrade that easily and even desktop users are often forced to completely change the platform, just to gain some noticeable upgrades. This can be very costly, especially if RAM is involved and many just don’t have enough money to spend at that time.
Buying a couple of premiums on sale is much cheaper and thus more obtainable for them.
Computer upgrades cost like 2x the amount they used to.
My set up almost doubled in price from when I bought it 7 months ago due to ssd, gpu and ram price increases
So you said “€100 is easy if you look hard enough” really misses the reality for many people. Across much of Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, and most of Asia, that sum is often a full week’s earnings or more after taxes, not to mention the goddamn high shipping costs and local market prices that drive everything up. Just because hardware is old and cheap where you live doesn’t mean it’s affordable everywhere. That GTX 600 might be some very new and high-end tech for undeveloped countries and probably might even cost 200 euro for taxes and shipping costs.
You keep bringing up your own upgrade history, from a GT630M laptop until 2020, then gradually transitioning to a desktop, and only reaching Ryzen + 4070S in 2023-2024 – so why lecture everyone else to “just upgrade now” when you spent years happily playing on low-end hardware yourself? “Because I got good laptop and everything upgraded so nobody is allowed to use ULQ anymore.”
You do realise that that premium content costs differently across the world, especially in undeveloped nations. Let’s say a premium account costs 60 euro in Europe but probably costs 5 euro in Africa. However, buying those computer components and upgrading somehow in this world doesn’t work like that. Instead of being cheaper, it gets more expensive. Like, an Apple Mac M1 Pro costs like $1000 in North america, and in Asia it cost around 1200.
I have to use ULQ anytime I wanna play away from home on my laptop or I get like 20fps.
If I use ULQ I get around 50-60fps which is fine to play at since this game is not as fast paced as something like CSGO