Do you NEED that card, feeding the scalpers

[handyandy24]

Hear me out

I have a gtx 970 and have for what feels like 6ish years. About a year ago i got into sim racing on my ps4.

Then my daughter nuked the ps4 with jam toast in the drive and all sorts went in there.

This forced me to look again at my pc, and i picked up ACC which is a sim title that isnt exactly well optimised. I even bought a full aluminium sim rig with bucket seat. The 970 ram ACC ok stable 60fps mostly low settings some mid. Then i grabbed a 3440 x 1440 ultrawide, performance took a slight hit and i lowered some stuff.

I even picked up a rift s, realised i couldnt run ACC vr on the 970, so grabbed race room and project cars - both games run fine on the 970. I even play pavlov.

Now im itching to update the gpu so i can max out my 144hz new monitor with descent visuals, or really push the resolution on the rift s. But i dont need it, i can carry on just fine. There is even a game i cant play! AcC in VR, but easy enough to experience sim racing in vr using another less demanding title.

So ask yourself, do you NEED that gpu because i think most of you dont. And dont give me that "its my main hobby, stuck in during lockdown" nonsense.

Ive seen so many, ye i have a 3070 but really need a 3080ti. Or my second gaming pc needs an upgrade.

Third world problems right?

Not contraversial what so ever, thoughts? Give me another point of view on this

 

[handyandy24]

Personally I dont see the problem. Its not like you are robbing someone of life giving vaccine. Also if they buy it at a reasonable price that defeats your arguement of paying scalpers.
Its possibly they got a 3070 as that is all they could get and wanted a 3080ti as they have a 4k monitor and obviously cant get one.

Here's one to get your teeth into.
I went 3060ti FE > Palit 3070 > 3080FE > 6900xt since September.
Reason a) its my money I can do what I want with it and b) I originally wanted a 6900xt back in September and its took me that long to finally get one.

so far I sold each card less than £100 over full price that I paid (as in MSRP not 'scalper price') some of which got eaten up by fees so thats 3 cards gone to gamers for a decent price.

I`m more suspicious of the threads suddenly springing up from low posters when the voucher system is back in play !

As above poster said, its your money! Fancy sharing the secret of grabbing 2 FEs!!?

Im sure your a rarity, selling for less than RRP when you could have coined it in, respect

 

[handyandy24]

Until some of the idiot's in the PC gaming scene stop treating not having a GPU (or PS5 or Xbox) as some sort of personal human tragedy on the same level as a family bereavement, Scalpers will provide a ready home to such prices.

Nailed it sir

 

[handyandy24]

Hoping not to get flamed for this... but I'm going to bring in Maslow's "hierarchy of needs" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs

Food, water, shelter, safety - red and amber needs for sure. But psychological needs, social needs, esteem needs - these are all within the realm of needs in the human experience too. Perhaps someone is a VR gamer and wants to hang out with their friends (social). Perhaps you get a feeling of accomplishment and self esteem from playing games. Perhaps you're a creator or a competitive e-sporter and you actually get self-actualisation from what others consider a hobby. My point is we all value different things - our mileage will vary, your definition of needs and mine vary, that's fine. I'm happy with my RX550 placeholder, and to be honest I've mostly been doing other hobbies rather than gaming since Christmas. That's fine, that's my choice. Your needs... your choice.

What I think we do (largely) agree on is not to feed the scalpers. That's bad for everyone but the scalping few that ruin availability for the masses for personal profit.

The great thing about the hierachy is it is universal, as you say everyone is unique. For loner who has no friends or family and a job they hate, they might only be able to achieve a sense of belonging and self esteem through an online community. Hell they might even feel they have become thier best self when they ran a BWL instance in WOW and didnt wipe once. Pretty sad state of affairs but those people do exist. I mean i really hope there arent that many people who would lose their physchology attainement by not doing all that without current gen graphics standard.

Under normal market conditions i think we can apply this logic, but the current market few people need to pay scalper prices.

Bear in mind this is the question of , do you need the card that badly you feed the scalpers, not about justifying having a high end card