You're missing the "however, if you were to align your independent editorial views more closely with our PR department *wiggles eyebrows* we will keep things as they are" right at the end of the original e-mail.
nDerpia doesn't like their stance and will stop sending them free cards? Fair enough. Following it up with THAT statement, however, is truly a shameless move.
I'm not missing that. I'm taking that into account.
The youtubers are a 'business', and other businesses all the time choose which other businesses they prefer and work with to give free samples to that favorably help them in return for said product. Not just electronics. For myself I don't care if they outright said "Unless you review us with top marks of "Best Video Card EVER" we will not give you free cards.
I would go "Fair game..don't give me cards, I will buy them myself to review. And if I cannot afford the cards then I must not have a big enough consumer audience that provides my income base that free cards would be expected anyway".
Hell even Consumer Reports. A standard in product testing and reviews across huge areas of products, buys every product they test.
Nothing is stopping them from buying the cards to review.
They didn't blacklist them from: buying, owning, trading, reviewing, showing, disassembling, critiquing, talking about or benchmarking the cards... Only from them giving them free ones. IF they did any of the above I would stand with the reviewers and say Nvidia is WAY out of line.
Expecting as default free samples is just self entitlement of "You need me" with more steps to me.
Not that their reviews are not good, informative, or useful. But to feel you expect, bordering on entitled to, free review samples in any capacity as a standard...is the more egregious of the two than Nvidia saying no to that expectation. I don't think a reviewer of anything anyone makes, anywhere, should just blanket expect free samples to review. Any samples given should be seen as a bonus, not as a required.
If one of the Car Reviewers on YouTube said "Lamborghini refuses, and outright 'blacklisted' me from getting a free Sian to review because I have been critical of them." How many people would feel the need to attack Lamborghini for this major injustice to the car reviewer? Why is PC parts some sort of unique situation where people stand up and and defend: You need to provide free samples to anyone that does part reviews and wants to review your items.
Now I DO 100% agree it makes Nvidia look bad, and its bad PR and will probably hurt them in some way. But they are not in away in 'the wrong'.
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Disagree.
Except with the part on where they should buy the HW themselves, especially since on that last video they say that they have the $/€ for it, and that they don't even tend to release day one reviews. In that case... just buy them shits already! No more having to take with nderpia's bullshit review scripts and other shenanigans.
boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote:
i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
Just watch that Wan show if you want to see the arguments. It's about not being able to review it on launch day like everybody else, and being late to the review party, not because nvidia didn't want to send you one but because they stop sending it once the reviews didn't praise them enough.
However, nvidia apologized and even though they said that their email speaks for all the gamers (lol) this whole thing only made said gamers more aware of raytracing. Negative publicity turning in publicity. I'm already seeing stuff like.. But this new dmc5 dlc, does it have raytracing ??? sigh..
Disagree.
Except with the part on where they should buy the HW themselves, especially since on that last video they say that they have the $/€ for it, and that they don't even tend to release day one reviews. In that case... just buy them shits already! No more having to take with nderpia's bullshit review scripts and other shenanigans.
OH for sure, I don't think my opinion on it is universal, or that anyone else's take on it is 'wrong'. Mine is surely more nihilistic and cynical of the validity of merit of the complaint.
My outlook on it as a whole, is stop giving anyone anything for free to review. Or if you do, make it clear that the hardware given is purely a voluntary gesture and should be seen as such. And that decision to do so may be changed at anytime, for any reason. As it boils down to them being charitable to you for the sake of exposer and nothing more. And charity is never to be expected before hand.
Why I could never be a CEO/Head of marketing of a company: What? People want us to spend our own money on shipping and also giving up a product for free...knowing doing so will be a possible loss in sales due to the outlook of the receiver towards our previous and current products? I don't get how this is a 'pro' for us...
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
Disagree.
Except with the part on where they should buy the HW themselves, especially since on that last video they say that they have the $/€ for it, and that they don't even tend to release day one reviews. In that case... just buy them shits already! No more having to take with nderpia's bullshit review scripts and other shenanigans.
Pay 1-2k euro or get it for free by saying some words you might or might not mean. I'd take the card in a heartbeat
dafuck ur talking about ? context was all over the internet for a week how mr pycho had a bad day or got offended they didnt copy paste his rtx bullshit and cut off a reviewer
It would have to be nvidia, and also every 3rd party vendor in on it, as all the prices went up not just founders cards.
Not saying they can't all be, or can be. Just framing it in more of a correct context of who all needs to be onboard for it to be the reason.
And there is lots of logical reason for the hike: Company futures traders buying in and announcing it, as well as investors for traded DJ and Stockmarket opening trading options for it to clients. As well and Paypal & Square accept it for buy/sell options validating it even a little as an option for payment of goods. Coinbase going public as well as the pandemic and investors hedging the gains of the market cap it has against the stimulus payments. (I know a few people that bought in with a bit of that money..they cant be the only ones).
Finally the FOMO when it starts to peak, that plays in also.
If it was artificially being pushed to where it is by a controlling party behind it, the spike followed by the natural over bought correction happening now would not be happening.
There is plenty of valid (even if not logical) reasons the surged happened. You just need to find google and look
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-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
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I don't see this anywhere in here so here we go. Hopefully true for God of War and Demon's Souls.
PS: I just now saw this thread is in the Hardware section where this link probably doesn't belong to.... When I searched for nVidia, I was thinking it's in the 'PC Game Arena'. Sorry about that.
Anyone with the newest final version of the now called "App" can confirm me if they can put the * key (above numpad) as a shortcut to enable manual recording?
Because the first time i've tried the beta it wouldn't let me and only F keys were ok to do, but some games uses such F keys for functions and i wanna evade that
Besides, i've read that there has been performance slowdowns since the app arrived or something. Have they fixed em?. Is it just the app or whenever you're recording/streaming?
Still using GFE but with the actual drivers
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Oh yeah, saw those notes for the khazan game before installing the demo and coincidentally I had the recommended for the 3xxx series still installed (I think it's the sdalger 2 game ready or whatever driver, that one).
Fucking jewvidia...
boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote:
i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
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, my post had plenty of queues n context that it was about steve from hw unboxed 
