Biggest rip off currently is DDR4 prices, they're still sky high.
At least you can start with a certain amount (8GB or 16GB) and add later on. You can't do that with other components. High end gaming monitors seem to be the newest rip-off. You're looking at 4-figure amounts for the upcoming 4K/144+Hz/IPS or VA/HDR/Variable Refresh Rate monitors. I don't think it's exaggeration that high-end PC gaming monitors have increased drastically the money you can spend on a display.
This might make some of you puzzled but I actually sold my 7700K/16GB DDR4/GTX 970 components and downgraded them recently.
Get it, I came close to selling my Nvidia 1080 during the recent crypto-fueled madness, and even thought about trading down. In the end I realised that running my rig for a few more years was probably the best course.
Itle run chrome, indesign, illustrator, photoshop, Lightroom, in wqhd with no problems at all.
I think computing power for the average user has really reached a plateau where most machines with a dedicated graphics card can do more than most people with be able to push it too.
Better tools would be helpful if they can avoid being gamed - the ability to ensure that asset flips never reach recommendations or discovery queues would be good, and bubbling up titles that deserve to be on the front page would be better. Titles with genuine mostly negative feedback should never been seen there, but I often do.
Well it seems to be working. the media is going crazy hunting for suspect games and valve remove them.
I wonder how far this will got though? After all we are living in the age of precious people "The offended" as I like to call them.
Indeed. I know Totalbiscuit used to talk about instances of games being released without an exe file even. So it's like they don't even do the basic Q&A checking.
It's the usual complacency of market leaders. They're mistaken if they think they're unassailable and its frankly getting hard to work out what Valve spend their time doing
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