Its still in the top 20 list of Steam games being played - even more than W3 which still is selling lots of copies. The Nexus has 20000+ mods for the game and nearly 350 million mod downloads for the game alone. The same goes for Skyrim and Skyrim:Special Edition. I know loads of people who still play these games and most of them are not enthusiasts on forums and why should they when it hardly is that nice looking a game. The same goes with WoW which has nearly 10 million players and so many other MMOs. Just because these are not reviewed all the time by hardware websites or hardware enthusiasts don't care about them does not mean millions upon millions of people own these games and still play them. I mean Skyrim alone has made Bethesda billions of dollars,etc. AMD might want to invest in some of these shiny games,but look at how soon after launch the number of players tales off,as to be expected with many FPS type games.
I even asked about FO4 from that AMD CPU guy in the Q and A section,so unless people make a big noise it seems AMD or Bethesda won't care,but then that's the thing for those kind of openworld games and MMOs,people have traditionally defaulted to buying Intel,and if AMD wants to stick its head in the sand and not push its own partners then that will stay the same and they will lose sales they should be stealing from Intel.
Its getting close to a year since Ryzen has launched and do I see any patches coming out for FO4 from AMD gaming partner,Bethesda?? Nope. So either AMD is not aware of the performance issue or does not care,because I can tell you from history,Bethesda does not give a flying **** at all.
Its no point pushing hardware if the optimisation does not happen,and almost all the popular MMOs don't seem to thread ideally outside perhaps one or two of the Cryengine based ones. It was the same with WoW for years,when AMD CBA optimising their graphics drivers properly and Nvidia cards tended to be significantly quickly,ie,a GTX970 faster than a Fury X or RX480 - apparently they managed to realise that more recently and performance has improved it seems. Guess what - a lot of WoW players I knew just defaulted to Intel and Nvidia for that game.Most of these games tend to be more likely to be plastered by Intel and Nvidia ads,etc so AMD really needs to try and push themselves in them if just for PR.
These are the kind of games AMD has tended to be traditionally weaker with - they really should be trying to push the devs of those games to actively optimise for Ryzen. Like I said some of the performance drops are not indicative of what I believe the hardware is truly capable of,and they can't expect devs to just optimise for Ryzen unless they really push for it.
Its simply cheaper for these devs to not bother,and this is why the PC platform is so held back in many ways. It needs hardware companies to push and push as very few games companies seem to be truly using the power of the PC platform nowadays - Crytek was one of them but sadly they are a shadow of their former selves!
