@slickr: You don't enter into the true price to performance sweet spot until you hit $200. $200-$300 is the best range (960 and 970 for example). Going below that is going to get you a card that can't get you high frame rates and decent settings on new games.
@saganage: Early adoption. Remember the Xbox One and PS4 cost around this much at release, but are now only $200 when you factor in bundle deals. The price of VR will drop substantially within 2 years. They also know they can afford to price it up this high when you need a pricy computer to use it. People who would only buy this if it was cheap, would also only have a cheap insufficient computer.
@magnusstorm: By making game purchasing and collecting more convenient, yes, I'd say steam has increased sales of PC games. I used to pirate most of my games, and I had money back then. Now days even when budgets are tight I tend to buy on steam because everything is so cheap anyway that the convenience of auto install and patching is nice.
Pirates will always pirate, but that doesn't mean you can't affect how many do it.
@BrunoBRS: If there's any RTS to try for a newbie it might be this one. I'm not great at RTS, just decent, and I obliterated this campaign on the hardest difficulty in 6 hours (when they say it takes 10). If you play it on easy or medium you'll probably have fun.
@samsmithnz: It's not scaled, but if you're doing badly there's an option for a "standard army". Most missions involve you fighting waves 1/4 to 2/3 the size if your force, over and over. You just have to preserve your units and it's easy.
@tr4newreck: Worse is that "10 hour campagin" is if you suck or play in an extremely completionist "gather all the resources" way. I beat it on the hardest difficulty in just 6 hours and only failed one mission due to misunderstanding an objective.
The whole game was a cake walk (on hard) until the last 2 missions where their solution is to just make you fight armies 10x bigger than yours.
@WingChopMasta: If you think it's a data processing issue then you need to study up. It's simple 3D, just like any game, especially easy for a low power game like LoL.
@Karmazyn: One, that's extremely obvious marketing speech that no one should fall for, and you read the box lol, read the benchmarks instead. Second, and once again, Mantle is software, die size is hardware. Physically better built hardware WILL be better.
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