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There's actually a decent analogy there I think. The hamburger won't cost less, because the service of customization it itself less efficient: serving customers with their preference of with/without is more expensive than just pickles for all. Likewise I imagine making a game that looks OK with/out RT is extra work than just with.

[-] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

There is no analogy. It's comparing returning costs per product (you need a new tomato per 5 burgers) to a one time costs that can be cut during development. And additional copies of a game don't generate more costs.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There really isn't.

The op comment was that gamers need to buy expensive hardware so that developers could cut on features/optimization.

The follow-up reply likened it to customizing your burger, but the better analogy (and the one I assumed) would be for McDonald's to remove all tomato and pickles (saving money), and the user had to buy it themselves to add to the burger.

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