Soldato
^ Yep. Makes me laugh when anyone even begins to justify any of this.
When prices go up ridiculously someone somewhere is making loads of money.
People need to stop, in any way shape or form, defending the manufacturers and retailers involved in all this.
You are all being taken for mugs.
Have you noticed they rarely go down even if things go back to normal? Remember what happened with HDD pricing and warranties after the floods in Thailand? So many times these companies have been fined for dodgy practices and forming cartels. People should be wary of trusting any of them,however nice the PR folk are.
It's just a ridiculous situation for gamers, I've been semi scalped by buying a pre-built recently but I'd got desperate in that I'd not had a new PC for a good 5 years. I also do have a Series X that is pretty good in the most part, but still a compromise overall Vs a decent PC.....but as long as Crypto carries on we're all doomed to this never ending circle of GPU manufacturers using the sector as a cash cow. I doubt they even give a **** about gamer's, the group who effectively bankrolled their capability to be in the position they are now to take advantage of the Crypto situation. But I don't think they'll ever lose, the consoles out now are as good as a semi decent PC, so games will still be made and a big audience to boot, so even if the day comes when Crypto either dies a death or moves to another way of mining, they still have a massive audience who they can sell goods to when us gamer's are hungry for a decent PC.
This is why we shouldn't show any "loyality" or "benefit of the doubt" to them,as they could quite happily drop us and look for business elsewhere. Same as many AAA gaming companies who started all the loot crates,excessive monetisation,etc and who a number of tech journalists tried to warn us about(only to get dunked on by fans,who were proved to be wrong when things got worse and worse).
Loyalty,especially,to large firms like this is a mug's game IMHO.
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