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I was wondering, what is the logic in giving up? It seems extremely hard to buy anything these days, even the 2000 series or 5700xt are very limited. I saw a 2080 TI retailing for £1400 on one site.
 
I have been redirected by sales team who we're unable to give me any information on when my card would arrive.

I worked out that based on my place in the queue and the amount of 3080 cards which OC received last few week...that I won't receive my prepaid card until August 2022 :(

When I ordered it I specifically asked if it could come by Xmas which was a factor in who I chose to prepay such a large sum (4 me) of money too and they indicated their was a chance. I now see there was no chance.

I'm not criticizing OC but id risk losing sales vs losing customer faith by being more honest about the situation which as a noob I had little understanding of.

My question to the sales team who weren't able to help is...is there a plan?
I asked based on the absurd chance of a card coming in late 2022, what was nvidias plan.

I naively believed and it was suggested, nvidia would do an Xmas push but all in seeing is scalpers on eBay restock weekly while the country goes without. There seems to be no plan to combat scalpers or increase production or if there is...overclokers don't know it or aren't sharing it with prepaid customers.

If anyone knows if there is a plan to avoid hundreds..thousands of loyal customers from receiving their card nearly 2 years late I would like to hear it please.
Knowing there is an actual plan would help me keep my pre-order.

Thanks
 
3080 waiter said:
I have been redirected by sales team who we're unable to give me any information on when my card would arrive.

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In fairness you can only be given information if they have the information to give. It general it is best for retailers to talk in terms of certainties, not probabilities. I read one analysis which point to Bitcoin being up 77% so far this quarter to another reason graphics cards are in short supply across the board.

WarpedMind said:
This and I have a 2070 Super which is fine for a while yet.
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I had been feeling bad for you, I'm stuck here on a GTX660.
 
FoxandHound said:
In fairness you can only be given information if they have the information to give. It general it is best for retailers to talk in terms of certainties, not probabilities. I read one analysis which point to Bitcoin being up 77% so far this quarter to another reason graphics cards are in short supply across the board.


I had been feeling bad for you, I'm stuck here on a GTX660.
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:)

I had hoped to use the 3080 for Cyberpunk 2077 but if I turn ray tracing off, I can run at High/Ultra and get decent framerates at 5120x1440 resolution.
 
WarpedMind said:
This and I have a 2070 Super which is fine for a while yet.
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Still a heavy hitter that card

WarpedMind said:
I had hoped to use the 3080 for Cyberpunk 2077 but if I turn ray tracing off, I can run at High/Ultra and get decent framerates at 5120x1440 resolution.
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By the time the game's patched up you'll probably be running an RTX 4080. Have you experienced many bugs so far?
 
iamwilf said:
Still a heavy hitter that card


By the time the game's patched up you'll probably be running an RTX 4080. Have you experienced many bugs so far?
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Patch 1.04 fixed quite a lot but still encounter bugs. The bugs are nowhere near as bad (or performance wise) that I've seen of consoles.

But on PC for example NPC's core to the main story several times have been unable to talk to so stuck story wise and have to reload, or the Police spawning literally out of nowhere in areas where it isn't possible (i.e. there's one door in a room in front of me but they appear behind). Spoiled the combat a bit when I completed a mission and found a katana roughly double the DPS of a weapon, I kept that till the end and just modded it.

I finished the game in 36 hours and it was pretty disappointing. It felt unfinished, too buggy and the missions later on generally not that rewarding to play, the earlier missions were really good and showed a lot of time had been put into them but later missions felt rushed / lacking.
 
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WarpedMind said:
Patch 1.04 fixed quite a lot but still encounter bugs. The bugs are nowhere near as bad (or performance wise) that I've seen of consoles.

But on PC for example NPC's core to the main story several times have been unable to talk to so stuck story wise and have to reload, or the Police spawning literally out of nowhere in areas where it isn't possible (i.e. there's one door in a room in front of me but they appear behind). Spoiled the combat a bit when I completed a mission and found a katana roughly double the DPS of a weapon, I kept that till the end and just modded it.

I finished the game in 36 hours and it was pretty disappointing. It felt unfinished, too buggy and the missions later on generally not that rewarding to play, the earlier missions were really good and showed a lot of time had been put into them but later missions felt rushed / lacking.
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It's pretty common to front load a game with the best missions so players are past the point of a possible refund when it becomes dull.
Shame they rushed it though. Publishers need to hold off on giving release dates until much later into the development.
I didn't touch any of the Witcher games until the enhanced editions were released, think I'll do the same with this
 
iamwilf said:
It's pretty common to front load a game with the best missions so players are past the point of a possible refund when it becomes dull.
Shame they rushed it though. Publishers need to hold off on giving release dates until much later into the development.
I didn't touch any of the Witcher games until the enhanced editions were released, think I'll do the same with this
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wow really ? id not heard of any games that do that, seems scummy to the degree where they wouldnt bother risking their rep
 
Roadrunner_668 said:
wow really ? id not heard of any games that do that, seems scummy to the degree where they wouldnt bother risking their rep
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Well 'common' may have been an exaggeration. Many games felt rushed in later parts years before the 2 hour steam refund rule, but it does seem to have increased since and isn't that surprising when you think of what other practices big developers employ such as holding back review copies, only allowing reviews of the superior version (Cyberpunk included in this), adding adverts into the game in patches after initial release and reviews. I could go on. I don't know about you, but I rarely finish games these days. I find them monotonous after a few hours, so much asset recycling etc. Indie games seem to be where most of the creativity is at the moment
 
iamwilf said:
Well 'common' may have been an exaggeration. Many games felt rushed in later parts years before the 2 hour steam refund rule, but it does seem to have increased since and isn't that surprising when you think of what other practices big developers employ such as holding back review copies, only allowing reviews of the superior version (Cyberpunk included in this), adding adverts into the game in patches after initial release and reviews. I could go on. I don't know about you, but I rarely finish games these days. I find them monotonous after a few hours, so much asset recycling etc. Indie games seem to be where most of the creativity is at the moment
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fair even occasionally seems like a weird risk ha ha

but i guess i shouldnt be surprised that companies do these things
 
Roadrunner_668 said:
fair even occasionally seems like a weird risk ha ha

but i guess i shouldnt be surprised that companies do these things
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It is risky, but they usually get away with it. I think cdpr's rep will be hurt for a while after the cyberpunk launch fiasco, especially on consoles. It'll get fixed eventually, they should have just delayed again
 
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