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Star CitizenvsWoW Classic

Star Citizen leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); WoW Classic leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION6 /10READS3 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Star CitizenWoW Classic

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Star Citizen leans harder on execution: Demanding flight and FPS inputs

Reads3 vs 3

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 3

Star Citizen leans harder on variance: Server instability and event RNG

Optimization8 vs 8

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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