How on earth are people getting ripped off? Is a mugger going to their house, taking them away at knifepoint/gunpoint, marching them to a PC retailer and making them buy the GPUs?
Of course not that's a silly thing to say and makes no sense. You are getting ripped off because you are paying something for nothing a GPU is a black box its not a Ferrari its not a renaissance work of art or a dining experience at a Michelin star restaurant. Its a tool to accelerate graphics primarily for video games a hobby mostly popular with young and middle aged generations, it serves little more purpose to a gamer than their monitor or CPU it doesn't really matter what it looks like, what logo is printed on weather its made of cheap steel or military grade titanium its still a black box and always will be.
Srs, don't talk wet. If you bought one and are unhappy then simply send it back. If not? then you are just moaning. Like I have said over and over and over now, if you don't want to buy one then don't ! if you want one and can't afford it? save for one. If you don't want to do that? then get a console.
I do want to buy one, and am excited for the new generation of GPUs but I don't like getting ripped off. I want and expect for the sake of argument £600 worth of GPU for £600 not a £300-like product marked up to £600 because of "reasons". I see no reason why this shouldn't apply at the high end too but I do recognise some creep is inevitable but that is not what we are seeing its a gulf a chasm a massive price hike for as little as they can get away with giving you.
You want your moan cake and eat it man. I don't care if it's OK or not. I really, truly don't. If that was all I had to worry about I would be worried I was dead and didn't realise or something.
I get it, you see it as moaning I can't help that. You could say you are moaning also lets all moan together or we can talk about other things until price comes up again which it will because guess what a lot of people aren't happy about being ripped off either, don't worry I'm here to educate you
There are many things in life many can't afford, get over it. That is called a class system and is all part of capitalism. Now I didn't say I particularly liked it but seriously this is absolutely beyond ridiculous. Wah wah wah, this company won't give me something for next to nothing.
I've not mentioned affordability, I'm guessing you're directing that at some one else who is "moaning". As for wanting something for "next to nothing" yeah that comes up a bit here and is plain ridiculous, there is a massive gap between wanting or expecting something for nothing and being ripped off. If someone is in the market for £500 worth of GPU they are clearly not expecting something for next to nothing are they, that;s a crazy thing to say.
If you have been priced out and are unhappy about it? find another hobby. There are many out there. I wouldn't even mind if you had a decent point here and you couldn't even play the games without one of these expensive GPUs. But the fact is you absolutely and totally can.
Wild assumptions, you've no idea what I or anyone else can afford you're just making stuff up now. You clearly don't agree with this anti-consumer PoV I get it, you're going to have a hard time trying to convince a growing population of disgruntled PC gamers fed up with the ripoff pricing of GPUs though. Sorry to break it to you but you're not going to shut this discussion down your points have some but ultimately little merit that you're defending a company's greedy behaviour for. Its not unique to Nvidia of course it isn't the whole oil and pharma industries are the same its about Nvidia following in their footsteps and calling it out rather than burying your head in the sand and getting walked over.
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