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Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases
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The performance issues are a major one for me, nothing worse than firing up a new game and getting 40fps with tons of stuttering along the way.
I feel like most newer games also have trouble with low/medium settings not really being that much better for performance, so there's no fix for it.
I remember older games where low was like staring at a character made from 12 polygons and everything looked awful, but it would run on just about anything.
Tim Cain (the lead on the original Fallout and a long time programmer) talked about his experience being a programmer for hire at a major studio later in his career. It as a culture shock for him to see younger programmers basically doing no optimization. When he talked to them about it the attitude was basically that it wasn't worth the time to do, since none of the higher ups cared about it, and the programmers could easily get whatever they assignment was done with bloated, unoptimized code. There wasn't any experience in optimizing or a culture of doing it.
I watch a good deal of his stuff on YT, and despite being I think roughly 20 years younger than him, I agree with his level of shock.
I used to work for Microsoft.
I have worked in varying different kinds of software dev, and have been making mods for games basically since I became a teenager.
... Almost no one optimizes anything these days, in my experience, be it a video game, a database or complex SQL query, ... etc etc.
Most people seem to just be adding technical debt with reckless abandon, and its because management prioritizes slapdash, good enough solutions, over an actually maintainable and performant system.
This is a huge part of why Windows is a bloated pile of nonsense, which they think they can now fix with even more bloated nonsense ('Copilot').
Tech company managent and C Suite are basically cult members/leaders at this point, and their insanity is literally destroying the world, now that they think they can more or less build their idea of God, if only they can use all the economic capital in existence.
They're insane.
This is partially why I've lost all interest in ultra-realistic, cutting edge graphics. I know that with them comes so much bloat that they are difficult to run, and really I realized how little I care about those.
Titanfall 2.
Metal Gear Solid V.
Decade old games on PC.
Still look pretty damned good, imo.