[Wccftech] Gamers Are Calling for a “RAM Boycott” to Force Prices Down, But Here’s the Hard Truth: It Won’t Work
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Sorcerer
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Most likely, the ram manufacturers would appreciate the boycott, as that is more inventory they can supply to the bemouths of the industry. They don't need the average consumer at all in this case.
The only ones who would be directly hurt buy this are the retailers. (Who probably have little say or choice in the matter).
The only ones who would be directly hurt buy this are the retailers. (Who probably have little say or choice in the matter).
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
phant0m
Member
The reverse boycott of Hogwarts seemed to work. Though it cancelled out the intended actual boycott, so net zero?Has there ever been a successful gamer boycott?
Also, not sure if it counts as a boycott but the monster backlash to the Xbone reveal made MS walk all that shit back.
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Gamer_By_Proxy
About to beat off
Right when I think gamers couldn't seem more stupid . . . hey they're selling our stuff to someone else for more money, lets boycott it . . . that way they can more easily sell it to someone else for more money.
vaibhavpisal
Member
Smartest demographic there is.
Tempting ram companies into reducing prices by playing hard to get.
Tempting ram companies into reducing prices by playing hard to get.
Unknown Soldier
Member
This is exactly what they will do yes, DRAM is a commodity product. The same wafers can be used to make a consumer DRAM or an enterprise ECC DRAM or GDDR for GPU's. The DRAM manufacturers couldn't give less of a shit what specific DRAM's they make as long as it sells
Mayar
Member
To hell with PC gaming, we're always seeing one thing or another go up in price, it's happening all the time and will continue to do so. Because too many industries and technologies are tied to PCs, and gamers and casual PC users aren't exactly the areas that generate revenue (it's negligible). This cannot be stopped.
I'm more worried about EverydayBeast, he loses any chance of upgrading.
I'm more worried about EverydayBeast, he loses any chance of upgrading.
RoboFu
One of the green rats
To hell with PC gaming, we're always seeing one thing or another go up in price, it's happening all the time and will continue to do so. Because too many industries and technologies are tied to PCs, and gamers and casual PC users aren't exactly the areas that generate revenue (it's negligible). This cannot be stopped.
I'm more worried about EverydayBeast, he loses any chance of upgrading.
You do realize this affects console gaming as well. We haven't seen it peak yet because Sony and Nintendo has stocked piled consoles for Christmas but if high ran prices stay high we will see prices increase again.
Mayar
Member
I understand perfectly well, and there's nothing we can do about it. But you understand that console manufacturers often sell them at a loss at launch to reduce costs, and then, over the lifecycle, with new revisions, they bring the cost down to zero or even profit. And yes, this will also hit consoles and all electronics in general.
MrJangles
Member
90% of PC gamers aren't loaded to the extent they upgrade every five minutes just for an extra 3fps. You only need look at the Steam hardware survey to see most are running old tech. The 10% give the rest of us the bad rep.
Much in the same way 99% of Playstation fans who are complete arseholes ruin everything for the 1% who aren't.....
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
Yep. Same goes with GPUs. If they don't sell on the consumer side they'll just continue to push more of their chips into the AI/datacenter basket where they'll make more money anyway.
Mayar
Member
The mountains of AI porn\hentai that have flooded the internet are no longer enough for us?
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
It's frustrating because a real solution would be for manufacturers to build more factories to increase the supply, but they won't do this because they're worried about the AI bubble popping.
I doubt this will be the last price increase either. With more AI data centres being built (isn't Elon Musk building one in Saudi Arabia?), that's just going to increase the demand further. I'm expecting RAM to double in price by the end of next year.
I also don't expect prices to fall either. In the near future, it'll just be too expensive for most people to have dedicated gaming hardware and most will settle for cloud gaming.
I doubt this will be the last price increase either. With more AI data centres being built (isn't Elon Musk building one in Saudi Arabia?), that's just going to increase the demand further. I'm expecting RAM to double in price by the end of next year.
I also don't expect prices to fall either. In the near future, it'll just be too expensive for most people to have dedicated gaming hardware and most will settle for cloud gaming.
Hawk The Slayer
Member
As long as the next computer I buy is within 1500 dollars and still more than enough to for me to max out GTA VI, Witcher 4, Modded Fallout 5, and Modded Elder Scrolls at 60 FPS on 1080p that will also last around a decade. Since my current PC costed around 1500 after tax and lasted a decade and still using it.
JimmyRustler
Member
I think that all the companies using Copilot are paying MS well for it. But I could be wrong.
That aside, the AI race is currently beyond the product market. It's state business. Both China and US are investing huge amounts of money. The way I see it it's the current day space race of the Cold War.
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kpopSuperstar
Member
And body scanners in airports. They missed that one. (Yes I worked at a company that was doing this and the AI was machine vision.)
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JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
I am just glad I have good RAM in all my PCs.
My only regret is selling off my 32GB GSkill RGB sticks at dirt cheap prices a few months ago. I could actually get decent $$$ for that right now. I could easily get $200 for that.
My only regret is selling off my 32GB GSkill RGB sticks at dirt cheap prices a few months ago. I could actually get decent $$$ for that right now. I could easily get $200 for that.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
As it should be.
ShadyAcshuns
Member
I tend to agree, even if devs celebrate people dying, or if they are racists or whatever. In the end that stuff doesn't hurt us and we need to separate the art from the artist.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
The boycott of Hogwarts Legacy was something that only existed on a twitter (now BlueSky) echo chamber. it was neverr serious.The reverse boycott of Hogwarts seemed to work. Though it cancelled out the intended actual boycott, so net zero?
Also, not sure if it counts as a boycott but the monster backlash to the Xbone reveal made MS walk all that shit back.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Gamers and boycott.... The joke tells itself am I right?
Sardaukarama
Member
September 2024 ...A quote from the Microcenter salesman as I was hmming about whether to put 32,48 or 64 gb into my new build -- "32 is more than enough right now, Just get the 32 as it will be cheap next year if you want to upgrade some more"
I hope he wasnt a gambling man !
I hope he wasnt a gambling man !
willothedog
Member
because it only takes a couple of days to spin up a new fab plant...
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
Lol. No, it takes years and billions of investment. A solution, yes, but nothing that will fix it short term.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
It's always the same... They call for a boycott, and only the weak can't take it.
Just like with the Nintendo fans, the damn keycards come out, and nobody joins the boycott.
Or like the idiots who buy Welcome Tour for Nintendo Switch 2.
The same goes for PlayStation. And then those who buy them are stupid enough to post about it on social media, as if it were some kind of achievement, showing not only a lack of determination... but also their stupidity in being scammed.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Soaring RAM Prices Have Reportedly Halved Motherboard Sales; Are CPUs Next?
As per a report, due to sky-high DRAM prices, particularly DDR5, the motherboard sales have almost halved in November.
Gamers trying to kill their industry is very on brand for them. Consumer motherboard manufacturers do not make server and enterprise boards. If gamers "boycott" MSI, Asus, Gigabyte, ASRock and those companies die, there will be nobody making consumer motherboards for gamers anymore lmao
64gigabyteram
Reverse groomer.
maybe gamers are buying less motherboards because the price of ram is literally pricing out people who otherwise wanted a motherboard??? It's not rocket science that when something heavily tied to motherboards increases drastically in price, motherboards themselves get less salesSoaring RAM Prices Have Reportedly Halved Motherboard Sales; Are CPUs Next?
As per a report, due to sky-high DRAM prices, particularly DDR5, the motherboard sales have almost halved in November.wccftech.com
Gamers trying to kill their industry is very on brand for them. Consumer motherboard manufacturers do not make server and enterprise boards. If gamers "boycott" MSI, Asus, Gigabyte, ASRock and those companies die, there will be nobody making consumer motherboards for gamers anymore lmao
MisterXDTV
Member
The same will happen to CPUs next
simpatico
Gold Member
lmao. They don't even want us as customers and they think a boycott will improve market conditions. Nvidia literally sees the retail gaming market as a burden that it carries. Hynix and Micron would much rather sell this shit by the truckload to data centers than break it down to RGB colored bits for your hentai rig.
Home computing is on the brink gentlemen. The demand is low, supply went parabolic negative and every future indicator is as grim as can be.
Home computing is on the brink gentlemen. The demand is low, supply went parabolic negative and every future indicator is as grim as can be.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
As long as you don't expect to get another PC till 2028 or so, you are probably ok.
