Funny thread. Not that people complain but that Nvidia play a clever game to extract as much as they can for their product and consumers who should really want the cheapest best product possible make apologies for the tactics used. Maybe it's like Stockholm syndrome?
Study business practices and you'll see a lot of big companies are masters at extracting money. The fact that people are willfully allowing it to happen to them is probably why we have huge amounts of personal debt in the UK.
Some on here may be able to pay any price and not notice it affects their finances but I bet a lot of people get into debt to line the pockets of companies like Nvidia and Apple.
Some will say is their money, probably really the bank's money, which is fine if individuals get into financial difficulties. However when large numbers of the population are doing it it can become a real problem.
I agree with you. Imo, companies are improving their money extraction tech faster than the actual tech
Titan was really a testbed to see if the market will support this type of pricing (which it clearly has), not in a mass market type fashion but as a halo product, pushing prices of the entire range upwards. People are now used to the idea of spending ridiculous (to me) amounts of money for a product that doesn't hold much price/performance ratio. It's a sign of conspicuous consumption, another 'feature' that's included at this price is 'poor people can't afford it'. It's isn't listed in the technical specifications but the subtext is there.
It's a little bit of Stockholm syndrome and a bit of prisoner's dilemma, and a bit of endowment affect. Once you buy into the system you're much more likely to support it regardless of 'moral errors', the 3.5gb debacle, nvidia's shady practices and cheating in the past.
To actually get nvidia to stop the price hikes, we as consumers have to actually work together. Just like in prisoner's dilemma, both parties have to work together and keep their mouth shut to get the best possible outcome. Similarly, consumers could work together stop buying at this price point and drive the price down, but it's impossible to get everyone to work together. People who have the money will buy it and the poor people who want it will either put up or shut up. And thus the cycle continues.
There's also a bit of the 'boiling the frog' analogy. This year's mainstream card the 1070 card looks like being priced at the enthusiast level. And the enthusiast level is now at omgwtf price, a new category.
More and more segmentation and more and more skus to fill those gaps.
with stupidly low stock clocks and less than stellar out the box driver fps performance.
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