10-01-2016, 06:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-01-2016, 06:34 PM by RolloTheGreat.)
(10-01-2016, 09:27 AM)ocre Wrote:(09-30-2016, 03:47 AM)SteelCrysis Wrote: GTX 1080 Ti reportedly launching at CES 2017: https://www.techpowerup.com/226290/nvidi...ces-launch
Wow. TPU seems to be waking up. From the comments in this article
Quote:I have no problems with a discussion relating to the top offerings from NVidia and AMD even though it's purely rumour and speculation because it does directly relate to the topic, I draw lines around 680's and 7970's, architecture, performance and trends are changing and have changed and the point here is simply 3 or 4 people take over the place and talk about this nonsense completely taking over to the point where others struggle to actually talk about the actual news topic, it pushes people away because it becomes tiresome........ as I said, if 2 people want to argue over performance comparisons of 3 gen old cards fine, just not here, that's what the general forums and private messaging are for.
Posted on Sep 30th 2016, 14:28
These amd troopers have been running people away for yrs now
The forums are in a bad position with the AMD troopers.
The websites are dependent on PR for their reviews.
Think about it. If some average Joe like Apoppin tried to actually write a video card review without the press kit it would read something like:
"NVIDIA's new card is very nice indeed. It has a good solid feel to it, I could still hear the phone ring, it didn't set my case on fire, and it allowed me to play colorful video games. I especially liked the picture of a busty woman in a chrome bikini riding a polar bear while brandishing a sword on the box. I give this card an A+!"
It would be the same for me, and I have university degrees and bush league tech skills people actually pay me money for.
The "reviewers" don't know their ass from a hole in the ground about chip engineering or how it interacts with game code, they're just paid to parrot press kits. (so they depend on the hardware companies for their livelihoods)
On the other side of it, they know tech forums are a dying phenomenon because forums aren't how the young interact. Forum traffic is key to maintaining that lifeblood advertising revenue, and their "audience" for the hardware companies. The AMD troopers give the illusion of a vibrant forum full of conversations, which is very desirable to the tech sites. The troopers post every day ad nauseum, average 15-30 year old coveted market demographic- not so much.
There was a time when sites like TPU could say, "Hold on there! We are an INDEPENDENT REVIEW SITE, we're doing you hardware folks a FAVOR giving you access to our media outlet!".
Now it's more like, "Fuck! I have this mortgage payment and Monster.com and Indeed.com don't seem to have any jobs for guys that can run a video game benchmark or paraphrase a press kit. I guess I have to bite my tongue and watch the AMD troopers shill."
The last side is it is a HUGE problem for the video hardware companies as well. They are multi million and multi billion dollar firms with no real advertising venue other than the tech sites. NVIDIA once asked me for ideas on other marketing venues where their ad money would reach a market with a high concentration of potential customers and I had no freaking clue. Think about it- outside the websites and the gaming events they host, where would you find a high concentration of people that want to spend $500 on a GPU?