Comment by ErneX
I disagree. From what I’ve read if the game can leverage RT the artists save a considerable amount of time when iterating the level designs. Before RT they had to place lights manually and any change to the level involved a lot of rework. This also saves storage since there’s no need to bake shadow maps.
So what stops the developers from iterating on a raytraced version of the game during development, and then executing a shadow precalcualtion step once the game is ready to be shipped? Make it an option to download, like the high resolution texture packs. They are offloading processing power and energy requirements to do so on consumer PCs, and do so in an very inefficient manner