[quote] That’s how it’s always worked in the PC gaming market. If you’re going to buy some integrated laptop for ~$200 to play games with, then that’s your problem.
People deal with 30FPS on consoles, somehow. God knows how, but they do. The hardware in consoles is still bad.
Buying an actual laptop with more grunt doesn’t cost that much more (really, it doesnt), and really - who buys a business computer to do rendering? That’s just silly.
I do understand perhaps if you were coming from the perspective of someone who didn’t have a choice in the matter, but really if they’re playing games on PC they’re going to have a bad time with integrated graphics.
I know what it’s like, ROBLOX doesn’t run at a perfect 60 on old hardware. The motherboard of my desktop’s integrated graphics were so bad that ROBLOX dropped to below 30 most of the time (this being an ex-business PC), so I do understand the business laptop argument. There’s a reason it’s a business laptop. It’s for work, not for play. [/quote]
Firstly, it doesn’t matter that those “business” laptops aren’t meant for gaming. They’re still being used for gaming regardless of their “intended” purpose. Most kids don’t really get to choose what they play on, most probably get “dat dad’s old laptop”.
And Most modern laptops aren’t that good performance-wise either.
Secondly, I don’t believe it’s correct to compare Roblox to the hardcore PC gaming market in terms of available hardware. We’re more close to the casual game market that existed before the smartphones took over. Back then, casual games targeted a very wide variety of fairly outdated office computers with nothing but the bare windows xp installed on them. The games released in, say, 2009 were still using DirectX8. And I’ll bet they’re still using it even today.
That being said, however, the situation is slowly improving, because despite Intel’s efforts, the hardware becomes better and better (and more accessible) every day. So we are (slowly) updating the graphics, and we’ve got lots of awesome stuff planned for this year.[/quote]I didn’t take into consideration the casual gamers and I feel kind of bad for going off on a rant like I did.
I do agree with you, things do seem to be improving. I just got off to a little rant because I enjoy making things with ROBLOX and feel that there could be more added to the platform to make it even greater. I think I’m just growing out of ROBLOX a bit because of how limited I feel with the platform still.
I am looking forward to seeing what you guys have in store for us this year, anyway. I’m positive it’ll be a good year.