| hinch said: Its actually nice to see consumers have not stand up to this crap anymore and leaving them dry. They've been screwing us over over the last two years and taken advantage of the situation and going for short term gain. PC gamers have accepted that GPU prices are overpriced as the market has been totally screwed by mining. And they kinda bought it upon themselves. That and restrictions have largely levied for several countries so people are spending less time and money on electronics and PC stuff and more on other things - particularly people who bought stuff on fomo during the peak of the pandemic. Whats left are the people who have been waiting for GPU prices to come back to normality which hasn't happened yet and like you said next gen is coming real soon. And yeah that's what they get for going for short term gain from a volatile business's. Its also a good sign because Nvidia and AMD won't dare rise prices (for RTX/RX cards) that high because the demand just isn't there for GPU's at current price points. |
It makes sense for us to do it at this time, we got screwed by scalpers, Nvidia didn't give a care that we were high and dry, then the shortage happened, they again didn't care, and now this happens and they expect us to pick up the slack for previous gen cards, lolno, ain't no one got time for that.
Maybe next time they'll actually try selling to us instead of miners/scalpers and actually join the effort properly of crippling mining that bit more, instead of dolling out the code to bypass mining rates (seriously the biggest fuckup they did was handing out that update).
I do find it funny how they try to blame a bit of it on Russia though, since the rest of the world also happens to buy their GPU's, so it comes off as a cheapass scapegoat excuse.
This is the first time I've actually had to skip a whole two gens worth of GPU's, and I don't wanna skip the 4000 series, but if they don't sort out them prices for them when they land, I'm gonna have to look elsewhere.
You'd hope they won't raise them again, but we know they still have that larger marketshare, and they'll probably make more Ti variants that we don't ever need (because for some reason they can't seem to accept that no one wants Titan cards these days).
Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.
