Dualshockers writes:It was a blissful day saturated with autumn's bellowing frigid touch in the desolate niche of where I reside. Children's laughter permeated the morning sky and junkies shuffled their feet resembling movements of a George A. Romero zombie flick. Everything seemed normal except, that on this day, one of the greatest games was released - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
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 couldn’t agree with you more. Although I hated it, i did agree with some patches that were sent out early on such as the airstrike damage balancing. Before it, the airstrikes (and helicopters) we’re a bit too devastating. I’m glad that IW supported the game in that way, but there is no excuse for the networking issues still plaguing the game today. I know that it has sparked many fanboy wars such as “that doesn’t happen on Live” and that’s just ignorant bullshit, as I play both SKU’s and both suffer from similar issues. I really hope IW can learn from their mistakes as MW2 is only weeks away.Great Editorial! +1
As much as I love COD4, I have to agree here. Infinity Ward isn't very keen on keeping thorough support on their games. I mean, honestly, with all these issues, we can seriously count on two hands how many patches have been released since the game came out.
I like their games, but their support sucks pretty bad.
for this to turn into a flame war, SKU vs. SKU...
Fourzerotwo is on twitter all the time and trolls thru the forums a lot
With the bad rap they're getting from the PC community regarding the dedicated servers, this will probably cause up some stir amongst the console community - at least those who give a crap.