Geezus guys. Doesn't matter when he bought it, that irrelevant. And also terrible reasoning as it implies that only better cards should be able to run this game (which is wrong). And since the 2070 is not much better, the ones you're referring to would be either the 2080 (was always expensive) or something from the 3000 series that were sold at scalper prices from day 1 - your reasoning would mean that only those are playing who got scalped. Also a 2060 never cost 900$, even in the current dire conditions. 900$ could get you a 3060 Ti at least (still a bad deal). This game got into EA when the 3000 cards were released, so you're telling me that this 5 person indie studio made a game exclusively for gpu's that got released around the same time with graphics like that?
Optimization should be key from the start, especially if they mark a 1060 as recommended. Far too many games made the mistake of focusing on content only, then just called it 1.0 full release at one point without ever spending time and resources to properly optimize their product (Subnautica for example).
I'm thinking of getting this game as while I don't particularly care about Norse mythology, I happen to frickin' LOVE these kind of graphics. Low poly, low rez textures but with awesome lighting and colors, but since I'm still rocking a 2060 and plan to do so for quite awhile, this thread got me think a bit.

Forget gpu prices and stuff, let's just focus on the topic here as I'm also interested to know how this game runs on various systems. What I would like to see here is other people mentioning how much % it uses from their gpu and what are the frames they get.