Some of you have probably seen me respond to threads about this recently and some of you probably think I'm just some angry old guy or troll. But, I'm genuinely curious what peoples thoughts are on this.
I've been a PC gamer for over 20 years now. I've been building my own PC's since my teens. I make my living as a IT Admin now. When I see a program (game or otherwise) list X specs as the Minimum System Requirements, I take that to mean the absolute minimum hardware you can expect that application to run at ALL on. I do NOT take that to mean I will be happy with the applications performance as long as I meet those requirements.
However, I see people all the time running systems at or sometimes even just below the minimum requirements (again, not just referring to games here) angry that the application doesn't run as well as they would like. Personally, I just don't understand the thought process there.
So, I would honestly love to hear what everyone else's opinions on what "minimum requirements" mean. Am I the odd man out in feeling that way about system requirements?