Off course I understand why you are such a fan of A5, I don't own two licenses, so I'm not really allowed to use A5 anymore, but I clearly see A5's advantages over A6 on slower machines, eventhen I don't even run A6 on a ultra fast computer myself and you just happen to be the owner of a presumably fast 64bit system...

I've got more than 1 pc, but I'm building my games on my target system, so I'm not developing it on my highest spec gaming pc, I know this is just some luxury I have, but it doesn't change anything as I would be developing my games on the lower spec pc anyways...

It's very good to not forget the people who own lower quality hardware or just older hardware, but considering the current minimal specs needed to be able to run A6, these specific people will most probably be a smaller and smaller becomming minority and by the time my game(s) 'hits the shelves' who knows how much people with old hardware are left...

People with a pc older than let's say when Geforce 4 became the 'standard gfx' card, will have to upgrade anyway when they wish to play any modern day game, let alone for being able to run Windows XP properly.

Fair enough, I know lots of people who still play Wolfenstein, Doom II, or Starcraft or even Dungeon Keeper II or whatever old game, but already 75% of them plays it on fairly new hardware, definately above or very close to the minimum specs required for 3dgs A6.

What does your target system look like? Second hand computers come really cheap, you can buy a pentium 3 933 mhz + geforce 4 or even with a better card for under 250$ , when buying the old pc from friends you could even get it for practically free (infact I've given away my old pentium 4 2ghz pc to a friend of mine just a few months ago). When your budget is lower than say 200$ to buy a complete pc, then the question rises if you can afford a pc at all, off course a solution would be saving some money monthly so you will be able to spent more money, but just not today...

Let's just say people could save up to 400$, then I don't really see why people couldn't afford a pc good enough for running A6 games. The difference in hardware requirements between A5 and A6 lies mainly in the area of the graphics card anyways, and 1 Ghz processors should be enough and are already amazingly cheap.

Maybe I've made it sound too easy, maybe you think that I don't know what being poor really means, maybe 'saving money' whilst being poor seems impossible, but I do fiercely believe one thing; when there's a power of will, anything can be accomplished...


Cheers