AMD don't make video games.
the vram requirements are for an optional HD texture pack. HD texture packs have been included in most ubisoft games for that last number of years. Even minecraft has some
I'm also not sure how you decided that giving people the option to download higher quality textures for a game is an anti-consumer practice.
Well neither do nvidia.... Works both way that argument.
I got no problem if this texture pack was truly worthy of the vram but that is the problem.... it's not. Just fire up far cry new dawn to see that with your own eyes. But as mentioned many times, still early days and a couple of patches are due so who knows how things will end up looking then....
It may be the flagship but the 3080 is still the most popular well rounded gpu. The vram requirements of this game are quite clearly gunning for the 3080. Just like how Cyberpunk 2077 and Watch Dogs Legion were aimed at targeting AMD for their lacklustre RT, AMD now has RE Village and FC6 with absurdly high vram requirements and minimal to no ray tracing to target nvidia. TBH both of these feel like anti consumer practices and something Apple has been doing for a long time.
I rather have the options/choice there than not to have it.
Imagine how good FC 6 would have looked with metro/cyberpunk levels of ray tracing but alas we weren't given the choice.
Also, the vram "recommended" requirements were high for RE but as per footage, it wasn't actually "required" in the end, nvidia, 8-10GB gpus didn't have any problems with performance or textures, in fact they performed great compared to amd when RT was enabled.