In recent years, the demand for PC game configurations has continued to rise, but the hardware requirements announced this time for “CINDER CITY” still left many players stunned on the spot. The open world TPS MMO “CINDER CITY” developed by NC’s BIG FIRE GAMES recently released its Steam store page, and also revealed the PC configuration requirements for the first time. Surprisingly, the minimum configuration requires 32GB RAM, and the recommended configuration goes directly to 64GB RAM, which instantly sparked heated discussions among players. After seeing the specifications, many netizens laughed and said: “This is not selling games, it is helping the memory factory improve its performance!”
The graphics card is not an exaggeration, but the RAM is doubled!
Aside from memory, the other demands of CINDER CITY are not actually exaggerated as imagined. The official minimum configuration is an Intel Core i5-10400 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600, RTX 2060 graphics card and 50GB of storage, while the recommended configuration is to upgrade to an Intel Core i7-12700 or AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D with an RTX 4060 graphics card. What really makes players talk about it is the RAM demand starting at 32GB.
After all, many AAA masterpieces still use 16GB as the minimum configuration, so “CINDER CITY” directly doubled the threshold, which also made many people begin to wonder whether the game content is really so resource-consuming, or whether the current optimization still needs to be improved.
Players’ first reaction: Is there something wrong with the optimization?
After the configuration was made public, two voices quickly emerged in the community. Some people think that the price of 32GB RAM is no longer as expensive as in the past, and it will gradually become mainstream in the future, so it is not a bad thing to increase the configuration requirements in advance. But more players believe that what really matters is not the configuration, but whether the game is optimized. If a game requires 32GB of memory to run smoothly, but does not bring enough amazing graphics and scale, it will naturally be difficult for players to pay for it. After all, in recent years, many new games have been criticized by players for their “high configuration and low optimization”, so everyone has become more sensitive to the officially announced hardware requirements.
Is it a technological revolution or lazy optimization?
At present, “CINDER CITY” is still in the development stage, and the official may still adjust the configuration requirements in the future. However, the minimum specifications of 32GB and recommended 64GB have successfully made it the focus of discussion before it is officially launched. It can only be said that players used to check the graphics card before buying a game. Now when they see the configuration table of “CINDER CITY”, the first thing they do is to turn on the computer to confirm whether their RAM is sufficient.