The Business: Once Again, Gaben Does Nothing And Wins

My Vidya brothers, I feel you, and I join you in praising Gaben.

You should take note of this and use it for your benefit.

With Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft all shooting themselves in the foot you had better believe that Steam giving you the tools to clearly see if your rig can run it is yet another customer-friendly element that everyone else somehow fails to understand or care about.

Want something that's going to work? Have your rig be at least as good as a Steam Deck, then look for Deck OK labelling. Later on Steam Machine labelling will work. Only buy what gets the Green Check.

Or buy from GOG. Those games are so old that you can run it on Grandma's email checker.

This is another place where Indies and AA are rooking AAA across the board; design for the low-end specs of your target audience. This is why World of Warcraft worked- you could run it on the basic bitch machines of the day and do fine, as I know from personal experience.