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WoodenPints said:

JEMC said:

I know that Nvidia "doesn't care" who gets their cards, but they do care about their brand image and the PR consequences of this move from Zotac. After all, Nvidia has publicly complained about the problems that mining is causing (another thing is what they think or say in private, probably happy to be able to sell every single chip they make. Same for AMD), and so if now they don't do anything, the pointing fingers will go from Zotac to them, and Nvidia doesn't want to be seen as the bad guys here.

Because of this, I expect Nvidia will come out and say something about this, even if it's a lot of nothing like "we'll revise our agreement with our partners to make sure that supply goes to our primary consumers, the gaming community" or something similar.

I hope your right and they do something by cutting AIB supplies that are taking the mick and I'd love to see Nvidia and AIB partners step in and blacklist the legit retailers that are basically scalping consumers.

I do always wonder how the current state of the GPU market affects developers and game sales as personally I won't buy any new games including stuff from the past few months until I can get a new GPU to up the graphics even though I could play them on my current hardware meaning developers are loosing a full price sale from me as their games will be half price or lower by the time I get a new GPU and get around to buying them, Anyone else do the same or still buying up new games?

I'd love for Nvidia to do something about it, but I doubt they'll do anything other than a press release that will end in nothing. And given that AMD is in the same situation, the market share won't change, and devs will go as they had already planned.

When it comes to games, I stopped buying them at release a long time ago. For someone like me that hates to play "incomplete" games, it's more sensible (and cheaper!) to wait and grab the GOTY/Gold/Complete editions that not only have all the content, but also have most of the bugs fixed.