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I think this hits the nail its head. Nobody "deserves" a top of the line gaming GPU. And if most gamers can't afford it, game developers will not develop for it as a minimum. Especially for multiplayer games where the total number of players in integral to the game being played at all (which is why many are free to play).

This is not true unfortunately. For high-end 4k gaming you can easily become memory throttled on 8 or 10GB of VRAM. This is the performance cliff you see on cards like the RTX 3070 8GB card. Granted, it's not for everyone, but it's certainly something 4k gamers would want.

So.. you're confirming it's a luxury product? One doesn't need 4k to enjoy a game.

One doesn’t need to game.

I bought an 8Gb GPU recently and was slightly surprised to find that I needed to turn down settings to save vram in newer games.

Some Mod users and VRChat users really wants VRAM because it's not optimized well, but don't need highend