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Originally Posted by moopf  I can see his point that not supporting the 7 series for this means he'd get less out of these new features but, wow, he's amazingly condescending to anybody who doesn't have really up to date systems. He even said that supporting series 8 should be considered "generous"  |
Then he's an idiot with no grounding in reality. Wanting to play with deferred rendering on corporate dime is sure nifty way to spend one's time at work, but leaving your application look like shit for large part of your customers when it could be easily addressed... well, that has quite obvious impact on retention numbers. I'm quite fine with condescension when it's backed up by solid knowledge, but when it's just hubris and bravado to excuse laziness, it's another matter altogether.
Newsflash: people did shadows and/or per-pixel lighting long before 8-series nvidia cards* It's not hard, and it'd roughly what, triple amount of people who can enjoy the gfx improvements? And that generation he's "generously" supporting? It' has yet to make it to more than 20% of the
gaming systems out there (
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*) heck, doesn't even the open source viewer do them for that matter, since Ogre supports these things and they use it as renderer?