You'd be doing it too if you were in that situation.
Actually I would not mate, had companies trying to buy me off before with their goods and trying to get us to use their equipment in our company and to sell on to our clients. This is why I find that behaviour not acceptable as the companies that normally do that have equipment that is not up to scratch or they change it after the preview models and make it worse over time or they have good stuff and then raise the prices like crazy once they get you hooked onto their equipment.
I do understand why some do it as I said Jay has a young family and this youtube job is his only income, but he also needs to remember to behave in a moral and ethical way too or it will all go to poop really quickly for him and people like him. I actually like Jay and understand why he has to do what he does sometimes, but reality is he didn't have to do the testing video and blame amazon for the game without proof, all he had to do was wait and talk to EVGA as he said he did, so I'm sure they would have said why they are having the problems or may have not said anything to him about what is causing the fault (company protecting its rear behaviour).
Only reason he did the video is he knows the clicks would be huge on it and a quick money video with little effort put into it as we saw, basically clickbait with no real information of what the fault is and he pretended again not an EVGA fault without 100% proof or he again may have known what the issue really is and made sure not to show it on the video and as said he is sponsored by EVGA like crazy with hardware and money, so not really a person I would have expected to come out and say hey...mine blew up too and EVGA FTW3 have a fault.
Was never going to happen, he lost his morals and ethical reporting a long time ago when it became his only income the channel. Same with many of the youtube channels.. They all have an agenda of some sorts. All Jay had to do was not do a video and say well lets wait and see what the AIBS report back is failing on their cards, but he had to sit there and shill EVGA and protect the guilty while the innocent the game makers had nothing to do with it apart from their game is demanding on systems and systems that have a weakness it will show it, like any stress tools would or benchmark tools.
What annoyed me about this situation was how Jay behaved and how he tried to drag down every other AIB and AMD with it and deflect from EVGA and blaming Amazon game devs, the game is a beta and an easy target because of it being not complete and is expected to have faults, but how he behaved about that and used the patch amazon did as proof they were the cause of damage to cards, but the only real cards that got damaged were the ones from his sponsor EVGA and the FTW3 models only the ones with the Fan & Sensor IC that EVGA sell on these silly cards that are not up to scratch and have a design fault in many places from power load balancing problems, to rubbish thermal putty everywhere (because they didn't have the right thermal pad sizes or badly designed cooler), to cheap components on a premium card and the list goes on with these cards.
Now all with AMD cards or other cards that had a shut down during this game was because some were not using the correct wattage PSU, their system is unstable maybe bad XMP or memory overclocks, cpu overclocks, thermal problems in the case, cooling not good on cpu, etc. Difference is all these cards recovered after a restart and DID NOT become bricks, so proving the game is not the cause, the game may show up a system that is not designed correctly or using a underpowered PSU or thermal issues in the case etc. Go try shadow of the tomb raider at full max settings that will knock badly designed systems over too, or any benchmark tool, but it doesn't brick the gpu that is designed right but will show the weak link in your system like a badly designed card or underpowered psu or a badly designed psu.