My thoughts. Some of them already pointed out but I want to get in on this without skimming through all the pages:
Quotes are not directly from anyone, just some examples of the kind attitudes that I keep running into.
Used to play at sub 30 all the time during the PS1 era so I've gotten used to it
I'm an '89 and I've lived through these times as well and before that my family had a low end PC. It's true that back then no one really cared but that was then. Now I've gotten used to 60fps and don't feel like going back. Why would anyone? It's 2014, nothing wrong with setting your standards a bit higher, especially when we're talking about something that has already been done over a decade ago. I personally, wouldn't be driving around town with an '87 VW Jetta and be perfectly fine about it.
Gameplay is all that matters, not the FPS
But a good game will always play better at 60fps. No question about it. If you had a chance to pick TLoU vanilla or the remastered one for free, you'd pick the latter. You people make it sound like you'd have to make compromises in gameplay in order to reach 60fps. It's not like they have to do poor level design, shitty controls and mediocre story in order to get that. Only compromise you'd have to make is in the graphics and that usually includes over excessive post processing and motion blur that make you sick to begin with. So why would anyone who appreciates gameplay, have 30fps + good graphics over 60fps + worse graphics?
Not saying that a 30fps game can't be good, of course it can. It would just be alot better at 60fps. Gameplay is always the most important thing and a higher fps is a huge part of that. There's a reason why a lot of gamers felt CoD:MW1 to be "smooth" and "responsive" despite being unaware that it was running at 60. No placebo there. So do you really think that smoothness and responsiveness don't affect gameplay?
Can't really see the difference between 30 and 60, so don't really care
Well to be fair, that's good for you. But not so good for the industry. If everyone would think like this, then the advancements in technology and software would be halted and we wouldn't see any new hardware. You can already see that becoming an issue when the leaps in performance are getting narrower each gen. If you don't care, then the manufacturers and developers don't care either and we will all be left in an eternal 30fps limbo(god help us). 60fps can only make the game better, not worse, so how can anyone "not care"?
I'm astonished that this is still a "debate" because it really isn't. If you're sick of all the 30 vs 60 discussion, then I'd advice you to side with 60 so that we can all be done with this.