creators vs gamers...

Not true, they have decent computer too. May be not 3 monitors but usually 2.

Source: my boss worked 10 years at lucas art.

This is stupid, you need waayy powerful workstations to create stuff, playing then takes much less power. If nothing else just the art pipeline workstations are heavy af in general.

I guess it would be true only for really small games.

True for indies. But big studios use powerfull computers, more powerfull than yours some time.
That's why they aren't optimized for low specs... A very big issue

I develop my game on both my i7 rig and my T400 from 2008 with a core 2 duo, and also a Celeron n3150.

Yeah my set up is legit even if it is a little older. I make sure to have all the new toys.

@nik123 no? Indies can make the same quality as AAA and in this period probably better since AAA is a fucking joke now.

Oh, someone wrote my biography.