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Angry_Steel · 12-01-2005, 07:00 AM

Marketing took over the graphics industry awhile back and removed whatever common sense the majority of people had left.

You can thank Mad Onion (Futuremark) for alot of it, now you have a whole generation of "Gamers" who sit around and do nothing but fiddle with their box until it BSOD's so they can get a few more points in a benchmark and get a woody doing it, yet most of them die miserably when they actually do end up in a game, whether or not it is online.

The whole "Benchmark" became the warcry of ATI and Nvidia cheered on by the whole gallery of peanuts who who were looking for that next woody, and that extra 100pts in Futuremark, and 2 fps in Quake.

Problem with this whole thing is that the freaking games havent caught up yet, why? Because they cant write games only for the people with FX-57's and 7800GTX512XXXSuperCard with 512megs of Hyper-Annihilator Quasi-Diamond memory. They have to write the games for Joe Blow with his 9600XT or TI4600. But hey, if you dont have that extra 5FPS, man you suck, and if you dont have the latest and greatest, dont tell anyone. Meanwhile ATI/Nvidia go head to head putting out super cards every other month, just to stay on top of the marketing...MINES THE FASTEST! (this month)....Well.....MINES THE FASTEST THIS MONTH...SO THERE! Jesus

I dont blame you for ditchin the things, they have to be a headache. Until normal everyday people quit buying the overpriced crap that they are wasting time making, instead of making a good solid mainstream card and lowering the prices to something reasonable by any standard, the consumer is screwed alongside the smaller comp companies. I know I wont be upgrading my graphics for at least another generation of cards.

12-01-2005, 07:00 AM	#2
Angry_Steel Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Torremolinos, Spain Posts: 76	Re: The Depression... Marketing took over the graphics industry awhile back and removed whatever common sense the majority of people had left. You can thank Mad Onion (Futuremark) for alot of it, now you have a whole generation of "Gamers" who sit around and do nothing but fiddle with their box until it BSOD's so they can get a few more points in a benchmark and get a woody doing it, yet most of them die miserably when they actually do end up in a game, whether or not it is online. The whole "Benchmark" became the warcry of ATI and Nvidia cheered on by the whole gallery of peanuts who who were looking for that next woody, and that extra 100pts in Futuremark, and 2 fps in Quake. Problem with this whole thing is that the freaking games havent caught up yet, why? Because they cant write games only for the people with FX-57's and 7800GTX512XXXSuperCard with 512megs of Hyper-Annihilator Quasi-Diamond memory. They have to write the games for Joe Blow with his 9600XT or TI4600. But hey, if you dont have that extra 5FPS, man you suck, and if you dont have the latest and greatest, dont tell anyone. Meanwhile ATI/Nvidia go head to head putting out super cards every other month, just to stay on top of the marketing...MINES THE FASTEST! (this month)....Well.....MINES THE FASTEST THIS MONTH...SO THERE! Jesus I dont blame you for ditchin the things, they have to be a headache. Until normal everyday people quit buying the overpriced crap that they are wasting time making, instead of making a good solid mainstream card and lowering the prices to something reasonable by any standard, the consumer is screwed alongside the smaller comp companies. I know I wont be upgrading my graphics for at least another generation of cards.