The "core vs casual" differentiation is somewhat of a marketing concept that illustrates the "80-20" economic rule. You make 80% of your business with 20% of your clients and vice versa. Because, let's face it, the core users group is also where a good chunk of the profit is, provided you have a good strategy to convert their passion into dollars.
In theory, the core user of an iPhone is who will spend the most in service fees. The core user of a pizza delivery service is who will order the most pizze. The core user of a porn web site is the compulsive masturbator who will subscribe for the whole year. The core user of a drug is an addict. The core user of a game console is who will buy the most games and peripherals [if he is not a big time pirate]. He is who pushes the attach rate up.
In the gaming jargon though, the term "hardcore gamer" has evolved in the early nineties when adopted by the console community to refer to their co-opted elite. It's a blurry word that would somehow apply to a superior breed of gamers who supposedly would know more about games because they spend more time on them.
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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.
