Eh. It's not the first time the industry has pulled this kind of crap, and it wont be the last. RAM is the simplest, cheapest thing to produce. Just don't buy during the price spikes so they have no choice but to start lowering price again.

When ram gets too cheap, there is always a factory fire. AI is just the new fire.

It's not AI ruining the gaming industry. It's woke this, woke that bombers. Destroying every AAA that isn't developed by the infamous 'one single developer' or in Asia.

We've been through the crisis of crypto filth stealing our GPUs for mining, we'll get through this as well.

Originally posted by Day 1:

Eh. It's not the first time the industry has pulled this kind of crap, and it wont be the last. RAM is the simplest, cheapest thing to produce. Just don't buy during the price spikes so they have no choice but to start lowering price again.

This @OP, all we can do for the moment is vote with our wallets once again.

Originally posted by Dustin:

It's not AI ruining the gaming industry. It's woke this, woke that bombers. Destroying every AAA that isn't developed by the infamous 'one single developer' or in Asia.

We've been through the crisis of crypto filth stealing our GPUs for mining, we'll get through this as well.

I don't liek woke stuff, but this has nothing to do with that. It has to do with AI, and data centers.

Consoles are the Key to Victory

I wish, I had high end gpu, all I have is 9070 XT, 5090 is like more than my whole computer cost :0

This too shall pass. Kinda like kidney stones, but, it'll pass.

Your not out of the clear if you already have a ddr5 computer, your still in danger if your ram breaks.

Originally posted by Day 1:

Eh. It's not the first time the industry has pulled this kind of crap, and it wont be the last. RAM is the simplest, cheapest thing to produce. Just don't buy during the price spikes so they have no choice but to start lowering price again.

I hope so, but I dont think so.

CPU's have been sky high and locked down since intel only needed to do the bare minimum to beat amd.

GPU's thanks to the crypto boom, and now AI, are not coming down in price anytime soon.

RAM, yeah theyve been busted twice now for price fixing, but its not like this current administration has any interest's in protecting consumers. They arent even scared.

Yeah, I dont think prices will be coming down any time soon, and now Trump is letting china buy as many nvidia consumer gpu's they want. So prices are just gonna get higher.

:(. if I cant get my health issues figured out and back to work. I think I wont be able to afford any future gen titles, let alone the hardware to run it. Oh well, all I play anymore is old games anyway.

Originally posted by Clumsybeast:

So i upgraded my PC back in April from a 3080/10850k PC to a 5080/9800X3D PC.. I been extremely happy with my build, but now after seeing the whats happening to the industry with AI, and RAM, and likely GPUs soon.. I realize how close i think i was to missing out on this build if i waited a bit longer..

But i am starting to think our GPUs will not even be supported soon by Nvidia, and AMD.. Like yeah we got high end stuff... but does it matter if our techs not even supported anymore? I feel like we might of got clowned.

If a market exists of people who want to buy computer hardware, I expect at some point businesses will create products to supply that market. AI can't change that fundamental truth.

Lets also not forget that in the US there is a huge population of people who play video games. If it suddenly becomes extremely hard for them to buy ANYTHING to play video games with, I would think there would be some kind of political backlash at some point.

And that makes me think... honestly, politicians are not going to allow this situation to continue indefinitely. They will pass a law at some point to ensure gamers can buy the stuff they want at prices that are reasonable.

If for no other reason than because there are a lot of industries and jobs that rely on gamers having access to that computer hardware. Game developers, game publishers, etc, not just angry players.

Originally posted by peon:

Originally posted by Day 1:

Eh. It's not the first time the industry has pulled this kind of crap, and it wont be the last. RAM is the simplest, cheapest thing to produce. Just don't buy during the price spikes so they have no choice but to start lowering price again.

I hope so, but I dont think so.

CPU's have been sky high and locked down since intel only needed to do the bare minimum to beat amd.

GPU's thanks to the crypto boom, and now AI, are not coming down in price anytime soon.

RAM, yeah theyve been busted twice now for price fixing, but its not like this current administration has any interest's in protecting consumers. They arent even scared.

Yeah, I dont think prices will be coming down any time soon, and now Trump is letting china buy as many nvidia consumer gpu's they want. So prices are just gonna get higher.

:(. if I cant get my health issues figured out and back to work. I think I wont be able to afford any future gen titles, let alone the hardware to run it. Oh well, all I play anymore is old games anyway.

And what do you think China is going to do with all those chips? Here's a hint, they will put them into things, and then sell them back to us......

With current AAA gaming market, there is no need for a high end gaming PC

I guess they listened to this whole "stop killing games" nonsense and went on to killing hardware...

Originally posted by L1qu1dator:

I guess they listened to this whole "stop killing games" nonsense and went on to killing hardware...

Does that mean we will be able to liquidate some corporations soon?