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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 actually know someone who loved playing video games, entered college for game development and found out it's very very different.. the hard way.
He shifted education since then.
I know there's other articles similar to this about the gaming industry and what to expect, as well as the differences between wanting to make games and playing them. In short, this is almost like any other job; you like cars however working in the automobile field may actually turn someone away or think differently about their hobby. With gaming I do want to put some projects out to remind people there are gamers who make games for other gamers; not someone who swears they are the "gamer" and you can tell by the attitude they really aren't (at least some of the people).
I was lucky enough to learn all of this FAR before i got into the bachelors course, and it became all too apparent who had to learn it the hard way. The course started with 36+ students and by the end of the first year alone it was nearly half that, and now with only one quarter left it's only 10 students. It's definitely not a field for people's whose greatest passion in video games is playing them, because honestly the truth is you're barely going to have to to play them anymore once you get into the field.