GamesRadar - In the past few years we’ve seen a swell of hatred for what the games industry calls ‘AAA games’. For those who don’t know, AAA games are the biggest blockbusters of the year; the multi-million sellers with the multi-million dollar budgets. Think Call of Duty: Ghosts, GTA 5, Battlefield, or FIFA. They’re the most highly-polished and popular games available, and for the most-part they get the biggest scores. And--similar to other media like films and music--that popularity can bring resentment.
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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It's sad, but I don't need to read this article to know it's stupid.
The simple fact it's AAA, means that people are more likely to play it and that in turn makes it more likely for someone to dislike it. You'll probably never read a hate article about Orgarhythm or anything, because the only people buying it are the ones that are sure they would enjoy it. The other reason is that people don't waste the time to call out a small game like Neptunia, for two reasons. The first being that so few people have actually played it, that the article wouldn't get views and really their opinion would be read by so few people that it would be a waste of time. The other is that these games typically get excuses for why they're the way they're. Like Neptunia didn't have a big budget, so reusing resources / elements isn't really a huge deal, where as the same happening in a game like GoW A (with a rumored 50,000,000 budget)... well it's hard to justify the same thing.
In either case, AAA games are not some magical group of games that are automatically perfect because a lot of money was spent on them. We've seen plenty of awful games in the or near the AAA category, so it's not like it's impossible to hate them either. In the end, this is like asking us not to call out CoD for any reason, since any negative opinion is automatically invalidated by sales, but in reality it's okay to dislike something if you can RATIONALIZE it in a calm and productive matter. In the event you can't rationalize your opinion, then keep it to yourself. No need to call something out when you yourself can't explain why you feel the way you do.
There will always be groups of people who think it's cool to hate popular things. Best to just ignore that bunch and move on.
It's not about hatred.
It's about demanding more from those that have more resources to put towards games than the smaller developers do. If you're Rockstar, Capcom, Ubisoft, EA, or Bethesda, you have an increased obligation to present top notch, ultra polished games.
I support the smaller, independant developers because that's where I find the innovation lacking from many of today's "AAA" games.
I love AAA games.
Quite a lot of people on the net have elitist attitudes and are very anti mainstream. They will just hate on something for being popular just because it's popular (even without fully playing it).