Conina said:
You locked yourself inside since 2017 for a pandemic, which outbreak was declared in 2020? Also the number of active Steam users HASN'T declined since the end of the pandemic; both concurrent users and concurrent in-game stats have set new records this year: Your narrative that many people only bought new graphic cards because they were a bit cheaper after the crypto crash is very weak. |
Crypto was starting to boom big time in 2017/2018 sure. My neighbor went down that rabbit hole and eventually had like 7 30-series GPUs thinking he was going to be the next big crypto bros. and could upgrade his Porsche 911 to a Lambo, ended up having to sell them off for like half what he paid about a year ago.
The fact of the matter is GPU sales have collapsed in the last 12+ months or so, it coincides exactly with people coming out of the pandemic and crypto mining going belly up.
Fuck a GPU, the best Nvidia buy I ever made was buying about 2 grand of their stock in 2019, it's worth a lot more than what I paid for today. Only regret is I didn't buy a lot more.