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Mind filling me in on the fiasco? I'm pretty sure I played the game somewhat early on and didn't hear anything
When people first got to play it, it was burning out graphics cards
Holy shit, I'm glad I avoided that. Thank you for the info
Complete lie. The game did not burn gpu's. That was caused from a GPU manufacturer(EVGA) doing a shit solder job on a batch of gpu's.
It's also the reason they don't make graphics cards anymore as well.
Cmon man. You call it a complete lie and then proceed to lie through your teeth?
It affected EVGA GPUs during the beta, EVGA accepted the responsibility and offered to replace the cards. However after the beta the game also bricked Gigabyte and laptop (which I think came straight from Nvidia) GPUs, so the issue wasn't exclusive to EVGA.
As for EVGA no longer making cards. Their cards were highly regarded because they made quality cards. The reason they stopped making cards wasn't because they did a shitty job, the reason was Nvidia. The official reasoning EVGA gave was that Nvidia made it difficult to maintain consistent profit margins, but the rumors are that EVGA saw the 40 Series specs along with the demands Nvidia had for the manufacturers and didn't want anything to do with that shit. And rightfully so how poorly the 40 series was received.
That isn't the reason they stopped, they were tired of NVidia's BS. Nvidia has been slowly trying to phase out 3rd party cards for a while. Since the 20 series they've been consistently raising the cost of the GPU that the manufacturer pays compared to the MSRP (i.e. OEMs make basically nothing if they dont upcharge over MSRP), giving OEMs way less time to properly design/test their cooling solutions before launch, and in a few cases only giving them worse binned cards.
The game was very bugged and did plenty of rollbacks too, not a thing MMO players enjoy having their progress erased, also plenty of exploits on a PvP focused endgame like a guild could just report every player on the other side and they would be auto-kicked from the game. Also the game was very light on content precisely because they pivoted from hardcore PvP to a more PvE friendly thing in the middle of development, pleasing almost no one from either side.
That's pretty sad. Thanks for filling me in