StickSkills.com writes, "The mere possibility of the next generation of consoles going “download only” for game distribution is something that petrifies me. See, due to me living in the middle of nowhere I am part of a rare group of gamers who can’t get broadband internet. The kinds of things that take a couple minutes for the privileged many out there (like downloading patches or games off of Playstation Network or Xbox Live arcade) sometimes takes me a couple hours. So what’s it like to live in this dark world? Well, it isn’t fun."
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EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.
EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.
Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.
This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.
SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space
Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
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As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.
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I still prefer SP to MP. Single player games are just so much more engaging, RPGs being an example. RPGs especially have just such a "magical" way of sucking you into the world as a SP expierence, that just can not be matched online.
It's gotta be rough being an offline gamer this gen. Half the games out there at retail are practically beta versions because devs are so reliant on post-launch patches.
I'm in the same boat as the author in a lot of ways.
I don't even care about multiplayer in certain games (I prefer offline MP), but what I haaaaate is how many games need patched these days. It's insane, and what's worse is that so many people have come to accept and expect it. Ugh.
Thats gotta suck, i use my internet for so many things i couldnt imagine not having it. Out of curiosoity where do you live? Satalite internet not an option?
an offline gamer without patches kind of sucks, a perfect example is Skyward Sword, or Skyrim without patches man that would suck, and sucks for the game breaking bug Zelda has : /