AMD Fury no 980Ti killer

[RolloTheGreat]

I don't think you understand Red Team Plus:

They get free stuff for posting about AMD products the threads you see are Red Team Plus guys earning a free game or video card.

If Red Team plus guys made all the threads, who are the people that keep them going? I see an equal number of post both discrediting an unreleased product and praising it. People care. I know I do, since I enjoy reading about certain computer tech.

I ask  myself why do I, though? I mostly play older games anyway. My 280x has only been lightly pushed. I'm playing King's Quest 5 right now. What a joke. Maybe Witcher 3 (whenever I get it) will change things.

AMD has a 22% discrete market share these days. There aren't enough legit buyers interested to make a lot of threads.

Most people go back and forth in terms of GPU'. If AMD offers a superior package, I assure you, people will quickly jump ship. Though they won't overtake Nvidia, it wouldn't surprise if they recouped some of their market share after these cards are released; particularly with all the hype.

I reiterate, you don't understand the Advocates/Red Team plus.

They start threads, and then the other people in the threads are mainly Advocates. (and sometimes the guy that started the thread himself posting with other accounts)

I used to be a mod on NVIDIA's forum. I'd have a thread about some "terrible NVIDIA problem" and 8 different people saying "Hey, I've got that too!" would all have the same IP address. Weird, huh? Maybe they all knew the thread starter and posted from his pc. :dodgy:

I would say most of the pro AMD posts on ATVF are Red Team Plus, earning their free cards, games, and trips to trade shows.

Most of the real people left that forum long ago, got tired of the marketing. So what's left is marketeers chatting and maintaining a watch for anyone posting anything positive about intel or NVIDIA. They HAVE to respond with something pro-AMD and report it to their uplines.

AMD basically controls all speech on forums in their last ditch attempt to survive as they circle the drain.

The "karma" part is: What they've done and are doing is evil, but NVIDIA and intel have better resources and engineers, so AMD is going down hill fast anyway. Their market cap is down to $1.8b (compared to NVIDIA at $11.3b and intel at $148.5b) and they have nothing left to sell, no staff left to cut.

They are truly an example of cosmic justice. They took the low road and now are reaping the wages of their sins.