Raven's Cry Developer says "Anything above 30FPS does not matter for the gaming experience"

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

Vendetta , Curse of Raven’s Cry - formerly known as Raven’s Cry – appears to be lacking SLI support and from the looks of it, there won’t be any in the foreseeable future. And according to one of its developers, anything above 30 FPS does not matter for the gaming experience.

 

When a fan asked Reality Pump Studios to further optimize its title, Reality Pump’s Raidor responded that the team is analyzing the game’s performance issues, claiming that this is an expensive, complicated and time consuming research.

“On the one hand it is quite understandable, that a customer who spent 600+ bugs on a high end card (e.g 980Ti) expects that a game runs faster than on a 2 years old (e.g.780 GTX) – on the other hand … if you put two or four engines in a car it will be probably not run faster than with one powerful engine. It will for sure be more heavy and bigger, consume more fuel and be very expensive. Please notice, that the developers of the well known Benchmarks receive any support, money and any hardware they want from the graphic card manufactors … we received the last free graphic card 5 years ago, never ever any money and have to purchase graphic cards like an end user without any discount in retail.”

 

 

studios rarely receive GPUs in order to test games, which is why a lot of such titles release without SLI support (or with various performance issues).

 

However, Raidor went ahead and said that Reality Pump was never looking at creating a new graphics benchmark, and that anything above 30fps does not matter for the gaming experience. Now that is hilarious.

 

And I may add something: it was not our intention to create a graphic benchmark. VCR is a complex RPG with unique characters and story driven. Our focus is on interesting quest chains (which are very difficult to create) and not on frames per second. Beside this I thing that anything above 30 FPS does not matter for the gaming experience. And on my PC i7, GF 780GTX the game runs with 4K never below 30 FPS. No idea what it does on a GF980ti – I heard it is sometimes slower.”

 

This kinda reminds me of 

DriveClub Is 30FPS For The Same Reason Other Games Are, Director Says : http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/173897-driveclub-is-30fps-for-the-same-reason-other-games-are-director-says/

 

given the game is on the worst list of jimquisition, i wasn't exactly surprised when i heard this news, the game is a mess. to put into perspective, this is what 30 vs 60 looks like 

PS idk if LTT allows 60 fps, open the image in a new tab to see the difference. 

 

Edit : reading through the rest of the discussion, it seems the dev resorted to damage control later on. 

 

Source : http://steamcommunity.com/app/386280/discussions/0/458604254442508834/

[Unhelpful]

Who is this "dev" and why should I care enough to mock them? 

[Godlygamer23]

Car analogy is kinda terrible. Weight of a PC does not affect performance. It might be harder on the devs to implement SLI/Crossfire support, but surely weight does not matter.

[Paralectic]

What an ignorant prick, and his invalid car engine comparison too. Sigh....

[Nexxus]

Car analogy is kinda terrible. Weight of a PC does not affect performance. It might be harder on the devs to implement SLI/Crossfire support, but surely weight does not matter.

Seriously I had all kinds of wut reading that

It boggles my mind people make PC games and then go and not do their damnest to get to 60 FPS im not gonna say if they are right or wrong to aim for/cap at 30 but I will say you do not know your market AT ALL if you think this shit is gonna fly.

[-BirdiE-]

When I play CS:GO, I IMMIDIATELY notice if my game is running at 60Hz instead of 120/144Hz... So to say that nothing above 30fps matters... It makes me sad inside.

[EricX2]

In other words, our devs can't get it to consistently run at a higher frame rate so we locked it.

[SirSquid]

Having seen a two twin engine cars I can safely say it is faster than a single strong engine.

[SeanBond]

I think 30fps is even excessive, im more like a 6 fps type guy myself, that way I can analyze the amazing graphics each frame has to offer. 

[Nexxus]

Having seen a two twin engine cars I can safely say it is faster than a single strong engine.

Highly debatable because of how vauge the statement is, I know of some of the 2 engine cars they are not going to touche a veyron for example but ya 

[Me1z]

Not that I had even heard of this game before, but now I have exactly zero interest in purchasing it. Your beautiful story driven game is as good as shit if I get severe headaches when I play it. Why is it so hard to understand that 60FPS is the minimum for an enjoyable gaming experience? Not 30, not 45, 60. 

[Misanthrope]

For a dumbass, everything it's complicated, time consuming and expensive. Glad to know you are basically admitting your team mates are dumbasses who can't compete in the PC market, now gtfo.

[Derangel]

I was going to say that the dev's initial statements were some of the dumbest things I've read in a while but then he had to go and top himself.

 

 

SkacikPL - are you sure, that your framerate counter always shows you the real framerate? - And you are probably not aware that the framerate on a console also not limited. On consoles people usually do not see a number for the framerate, that's all - and that's the reason why no one complains. Beside this, it is possible to manipulate all framerate counters on PC. Sometimes this is the "optimization" you think has been done.

 

 

And some fun damage control

 

 

pharaun12: I did not say, that 30 FPS are the target, I only said, that everything above 30 FPS (and I meant this - as game should not go below 30 FPS) will not significant improve the gaming experience of an RPG.

[Dabombinable]

And I can tell them to get fucked. I've played Halo 1 on my Xbox at 30FPS after playing it at 60FPS on my laptops and desktop, and 30FPS feels broken in comparison.

[Yoinkerman]

Ravens cry is trash who cares what they think

[raphidy]

Well, the game hit 60fps, so i don't know what's the problem here. SLI isn't a must have but a nice addition for port but they should implement it if the game is demanding.

[Unhelpful]

Car analogy is kinda terrible. Weight of a PC does not affect performance. It might be harder on the devs to implement SLI/Crossfire support, but surely weight does not matter.

Weight of PC absolutely matters if your GPU is so heavy it breaks the PCI-E slot!

 

All of those custom osmium back-plates and heat-sinks out there kill boards!

[TetraSky]

... And here I am, not caring at all about the difference between 30 and 60... This is a RPG. Not some twitch shooter where you need butter smooth visual at 60+fps

[Dabombinable]

... And here I am, not caring at all about the difference between 30 and 60... This is a RPG. Not some twitch shooter where you need butter smooth visual at 60+fps.

In all games 60fps makes everything a lot smoother, ergo the experience is improved.

[Shakaza]

... And here I am, not caring at all about the difference between 30 and 60... This is a RPG. Not some twitch shooter where you need butter smooth visual at 60+fps

And that's fine. Some people, including myself and my sister, are perfectly fine playing some games at 30 FPS. But, what this developer is claiming is that it is an objective truth that 60 FPS does not provide a smoother gaming experience, which, as just about everyone could tell you, is blatantly false.

[Master Disaster]

Highly debatable because of how vauge the statement is, I know of some of the 2 engine cars they are not going to touche a veyron for example but ya

Except the veyron is actually a 2 engine car. It's 2 V12 engines running side by side to create a W24 so yeah.

[BuckGup]

[TetraSky]

And that's fine. Some people, including myself and my sister, are perfectly fine playing some games at 30 FPS. But, what this developer is claiming is that it is an objective truth that 60 FPS does not provide a smoother gaming experience, which, as just about everyone could tell you, is blatantly false.

Except he never claimed that.

Yes he said

"anything above 30 FPS does not matter for the gaming experience"

but that doesn't equal to "60 FPS does not provide a smoother gaming experience".

 

He even say it himself

"Once again - I did not say that 60 FPS is not better than 30 FPS - I only said that for an RPG 30 FPS on 4K is sufficient."

 

To me this is the toxic part of PC gaming that is putting words in his mouth by making assumptions. 30 FPS is perfectly fine for certain type of games and a RPG is one. That said, the game doesn't exclusively run at 30 fps either. So people are complaining for the sake of complaining here just because one dev, gave his PERSONAL opinion on the matter. Which quite frankly, I share as well. 60+fps is nice, but not the absolutely requirement if we were to believe what some people on that steam thread seems to be preaching about.

[atrash]

Except the veyron is actually a 2 engine car. It's 2 V12 engines running side by side to create a W24 so yeah.

 

 

It's actually W16, not W24 hence the name Veyron EB 16.4

[Master Disaster]

It's actually W16, not W24 hence the name Veyron EB 16.4

Meh, so 2 V8s then, the point was still valid.