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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.
Good article. I recently started buying the games I wanted more for my collection than for gaming although they do go hand in hand sometimes. Lately I'd rather buy an older title I missed like Valkyria Chronicles or Radiant Dawn then something I might get more instant gratification from like Dead Space 3 or newer titles. Part of that is I'm sick of wasting cash on a game that I can rent and beat or buy down the road for a fifth of the cost. These newer games won't be rare, hold value, and I won't ever want to return to them. Something like TWEWY I will want to have forever. I'm also making up for selling all my gamecube and earlier gen titles. Kind of pricey rebuilding but its the other half to my hobby and its better than blowing my money on beer and ciggaretts. There's an immense satisfaction to seeing a shelf full of titles that can only be bought for upwards of a hundred bucks used on eBay. Same reason women collect shoes they will never wear, kids collect baseball cards or Pokemon, nerds collect anime statues/figurines, and why old lady's collect hallmark figurines. Sometimes the thrill of finding something really hard to find or that one missing piece you've wanted for a long time is better than actually owing it or using/playing it.
DD is the antithesis to game collecting. No value, no resale, no boxes, manuals, exc. I skipped most psp titles due to hating umd's and I can't collect psn games. I wind up only buying a small few I really want to play vs collecting a ton. I prefer cartridges for handheld titles. I really fear for what's to come from Sony and MS next gen. With Sony's push for cloud gaming its even worse than dd because its not even on your system. I realize they will sell full titles also but this is the endgame and final goal. Services with a monthly sub. Il still play on them but inevitably will wind up buying more titles for handhelds and wii-u if this is the future from the other two consoles. DD only works when its dirt cheap like steam sales or the App Store. I don't mind wasting 5 bucks for something on my HD but there's 5 year old psp games for 25 bucks on psn still. Without a physical copy that's a hard sell.