I don't have a problem with Karnak. I for one think he's a pretty nice guy.
I agree with Karnak on this one, let me give you some background on Warcraft, when it first come out my laptop played it with 60fps and Aces High 40fps on full graphics. Few years later, Warcraft played with 60fps and Aces High was 15fps. I had absolutely no settings on,
everything was turned off and Aces was barely getting going. The common argument was " HTC may loose some customers." as you put it.
Actually HTC is pushing the game forward, newer graphics and new things coming out, it might still be a few years behind the latest game graphics out there, but this is because he does cater to older machines.
If I can manage over 15fps in all combat then you have no excuse to why you couldn't do the same, I did this for many tours even ranked #1 in fighters and GV's many times with this. I frankly got tired of it and bought a bran new system because my laptop started bugging out on me.
Aces High isn't jumping any leaps with the Graphic updates, if you can't spare a few hundred per year in upgrades, then its probably time to look into Facebook games rather. I could of spent less than a $1,000 and got a decent system, I blew $1,400 and got a rock'n system that still
gives me max frames in game with all settings on with a 30inch monitor, and I haven't even played the game in over a year on a two year old system.
I'm sorry I didn't upgrade sooner, there is no reason other then you want an excuse to quit.