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“Our aim was to make a well running, open AAA high-end life simulator first and foremost, so our min specs reflect that,” Humble tells me. “Once we get it running, we can look at whether there are ways we can optimise it to bring it down. But out of the gate, I would strongly urge people to look at the min specs and take them seriously. If you’re going to play the game, you’re going to need a good gaming PC.”
“We want this game to last for as long as we can,” he says. “Not just so we don’t have to rebuild this thing so many times. But also because we want players to be able to lean on this game and know that what they make is going to last.”
“You can put it on your hard drive, and it’s gonna stick there forever. You don’t need to log in to play it - it’s offline, you don’t need the internet. And that means that if you’ve got a bunch of mods or your creations, we can’t invalidate it. And that’s very important to us. So making sure that our game looks great and is going to look great for x years in the future is important. Machines just get better, and my experience working in game development is just make sure the game is the best you can possibly make, and then worry about the hardware later.”
