As Matt stated and as I have stated many times, Conitec should allow the USER to choose which features they want for a given situation. Yes, there are users who will fail but they will eventually catch on.

While more lights and more shadows and more this and more that will slow things down, we aren't living in the year 2000 or the year 199X anymore. The hardware can handle it, and a wise developer is one that will allow this and other features to be toggled on/off in an options menu. H

The ability of my player to cast a shadow from 80 different lights in a room should be my choice and not one that was made for me given there's no reason why this feature shouldn't exist. I know it used to be in Forecast, so it was at least on the table at one time, and IMHO it should be put there again and implemented sooner rather than later.

Shenmue was doing it on the Dreamcast and that was almost 10 years ago (1999).