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No matter how you look at it it's a cheap marketing trick .
The game would be perfectly playable on c2d -were they supported- they just chose not to (about 2 times out of 20-30 my game would boot up with normal frames on high settings but crash after 10 minutes or so, like the rest of the times) .
I doubt that optimizing the game for c2d would cost the company that much that their budget didn't allow it, especially with the sales they managed to get, even presales.
Minimum requirements rarely represent the actual minimum specs you need to run a game, so it's just a typicality . Also don't forget about games that have only been optimized for one of amd or nvidia specifically and ends up being unplayable on the other till it gets patched, even if they say it's supported.
If you tell me to go along with it and look the other way when it happens so boldly, then no i won't. Same thing happened with crisis and oblivion if I remember correctly but they offered significantly better graphics than the other games in their age, not just because they chose not to include older specs deliberately by making them unplayable.
A patch and optimization is not something unreasonable especially after they shut off everyone using c2d for no good reason.
This poor horse is so dead that there is nothing but a heap of bones left. It's not going to get up and run. The race is over, you lost, you waited far too long to join the second decade of the 21st century, sorry about that.