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This anecdote seems to extend to all players on the most standardized, commonly owned systems (current generation consoles).

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So 7 year old PCs?

I'm not sure why this matters when we're on a thread about refunds on said "7 year old PC".

It matters because while most of the blame is on CDPR some should go to players pre-ordering without realizing that getting such a massive game to run well on a 7 year old PC is not realistic. PC gamers would not expect this to run on such an old system for sure.

If it's not realistic, then CDPR should not be releasing a broken version of the game for those consoles. They're happy to take the money of a fully priced game which comes with a set of expectations of what that game will look like. This game has been in development for years, there's been loads of promotional material for it, and it's frankly anti-consumer to say that the customers are idiots for expecting something they purchase to be a functional piece of software.

> and it's frankly anti-consumer to say that the customers are idiots for expecting something they purchase to be a functional piece of software.

I specifically said per-ordering. I agree CDPR should have been more upfront about this being an 'impossible port' so to speak.

Tens of millions of exactly the same hardware setups isn’t really a generalization-failing anecdote the way “it didn’t work on my old computer” is.

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