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Old 2012-06-10, 07:10 PM   [Ignore Me] #9
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Re: Eyefinity and Surround Vision Support?


Originally Posted by kaffis View Post
It's not *only* about what's an advantage vs. people who don't have technology X.

It's also about how expensive it is to attain technology X and how prevalent it already is.

Plenty of people have surround sound audio systems, and if they don't, it's just a cheapo $20 pair of desktop speakers away since virtually every motherboard manufactured in the last, like, 10 years has the integrated Realtek HDA or equivalent.

For Eyefinity/nVidia Surround, though, you're talking about requiring a multiple GPU setup and 3 monitors to get access to that advantage. So for the vast majority of users, that's 2-3 new monitors (depending on whether the model they already own is still available to get two more), another video card, and probably replacing the motherboard.

The developers want the game to not have the stigma of being pay to win. Just because the $1000 upgrade that gives people an advantage is going to hardware manufacturers instead of the game publisher/developers, doesn't mean that's not pay to win.
you can run eyefinty from a single card for the past 2 generation of amd/ati and current gen nvidia 6 series gpus. you can also toss 3 22" monitors together for about 350$ I can build an eyefinity setup today for around 600$

how is my running 5760x1080 a huge advantage over someone running 1920x1080 (relatively common res nowadays) compared to someone running 2560x1200 vs someone else on 800x600 monitor resolution? Think its pretty clear from your post that you are one of the ones who cannot afford a setup so dont want others to be able to use theirs...
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