jmhilton74
Happy with the queue changes, will give a better opportunity to those of us waiting for our first card, which is the point of the queue.

jmhilton74Happy with the queue changes, will give a better opportunity to those of us waiting for our first card, which is the point of the queue.

Nereus

nick_shl

Nereus
you create a bunch of extra accounts right now using friends/family/neighbors addresses, just like the scalpers do, then you'll be rewarded for cheating. Awesome system huh?

Awesome that you don't need an account! Signup different emails for different cards, as soon as you get notification you can register account for that email. It makes scalper life easier - you never know which SKU will be dead. You need less people that in case if account needed to sing up. It is obvious loophole, can't understand why EVGA allow to sign up without registered account...
Things got better when they allow first 24 hours for Elite only, but it is not complete fix.

Damn.. good point. Scalpers must be absolutely laughing their asses off right now.
 

toyboarder

tizz78
I get that many are upset. I am in the same boat as others, was trying to buy another card for family. I have not scalped either, like many here have not as well.
 
Ladies and Gentlemen, hostility isn't the answer. The only "blame" for the change is the company itself, EVGA. I am a loyal EVGA customer, and will likely still be after this debacle. We as a community need to discourage the hostility, blaming, flaming, ect. We are better than this. In the end, this still sucks but not much sense in going after each other. It is what it is. I highly doubt that any of the complaints will change anything (again).

The real truth is there are zero switching costs for going to a different card (except Gigabyte). By doing this there are going to be a lot of loyal enthusiasts that have to go elsewhere (and be pissed doing so) while their cards go to professional scalpers/miners running dozens of email addresses. And we all KNOW that scalpers are getting a metric butt ton of these cards because a week after a drop dozens/hundreds of the exact sku's show up on Ebay/FB Marketplace/etc, and many of the idiots are dumb enough to use the same username. And it's not like the competition is bad, I actually put an AMD rig together for someone with a 6800xt reference and that thing was amazing, and has been flawless for him. The AMD driver issues are a thing of the past, and hell, with that Amazon game killing 3090 FTW's....
 
I was one that did offload a couple cards at cost to others because I wanted a specific card at a specific price that I am/was less than a minute from. I knew that if I was selling the gd things at cost to people I personally knew or shared blood with that they WOULD be getting used by actual gamers so why not? If I'd known they were going to pull this, I still would have helped them but it would have been more Best Buy online camping/AMD camping/etc versus unknowingly giving up my shot at getting the card I want (3070ti XC3). I haven't been bothering with Best Buy's BS, nor worried about the Shuffle boning me for the 103rd time, because I knew I was maybe 2-3 weeks out on the card I wanted and everyone in my family is now set thanks exclusively to me and my prowess at this minefield.
 
The problem isn't that this is a bad setup, it's that they did it after a year of the system being in place, with no warning. The only way this would have been okay is they had done it for purchases after implementation, period. That way anyone that was in the screwed situation that hundreds of people have posted about being in could be like OKAY I'm passing on any card that isn't my KP or 3080ti Hybrid or w/e, relatives can bugger off and figure it out for themselves.
 
If an EVGA card popped up would I buy it? Probably. But this has drastically soured my trust in their word and communication abilities. At this point it really comes down to how do they respond/adjust.

enewt
As of late last night, I've opened up the self-reported K|NGP|N lists for registrants on that list to input their FPQ or MPQ status....

lciarlo
I admit, ive gotten a few cards off the queue. when they opened a queue for them i was on top of it. hitting f5 like nobody's business. I never got in the first few minutes, within the first 30 to 45 minutes mostly. i waited months to be notified. I think most people who have been waiting a year for a card, either got in late, or passed on a notify they didnt want. i think most of these people were just like me and entered multiple queues hoping to get anything. as far as im concerned if they received a notify and didnt purchase they shouldn't get priority over anyone. 

lciarlo
I admit, ive gotten a few cards off the queue. when they opened a queue for them i was on top of it. hitting f5 like nobody's business. I never got in the first few minutes, within the first 30 to 45 minutes mostly. i waited months to be notified. I think most people who have been waiting a year for a card, either got in late, or passed on a notify they didnt want. i think most of these people were just like me and entered multiple queues hoping to get anything. as far as im concerned if they received a notify and didnt purchase they shouldn't get priority over anyone. 

enewt
Look, folks, there are clearly a lot of folks who are upset about the change. Let's take a step back for a moment. A lot of us gravitated to EVGA products because of the products...but also because of the company. The people behind it. The effort that they have put into customer support...into trying to serve the gaming community and their fans. There is not a better example of this than one year ago today when -- in the middle of a disaster of a technology launch -- EVGA announced the Queue.  As I wrote in these forums back on September 17, the anniversary of the launch of the 3080:

I cannot thank EVGA enough for taking the resource-intensive, risky and innovative step to create the Queue on October 5, 2020. That was not an easy decision – with lots of downside risk and little immediate financial upside (they were going to sell every unit they released regardless of the existence of the Queue). But, to be honest, if any AIB was going to do it, it was EVGA. With their existing Step-Up program, EVGA was uniquely positioned to pull together a brand-new queue system, on the fly, in the midst of a…putting it mildly…challenged technology launch. As an exercise in crisis management and accelerating the growth of consumer goodwill within a captive audience, it’s a superlative exemplar.  

EVGA is a company that takes risks...that tweaks things, not satisfied to just "fire and forget". They may have missed the mark with the rule change on Monday -- it is not my preferred approach -- but it is entirely in the spirit of one of their goals: get an EVGA card into as many legitimate gamers hands as possible. I would argue that they overcompensated a bit from the original rule set of the queue and that maybe further correction is warranted. But much like a sailboat that tacks across the wind repeatedly as it beats towards the horizon, I am confident that EVGA is listening to what their community has expressed (hopefully constructively) over the last 24 hours and are considering whether a further course correction is warranted.
 
To the larger forum community, please don't abandon the faith that you've had in EVGA simply because the waters have gotten a little choppy over the last little bit...these are still the same guys that brought you to the dance...and I am confident that they will see you across the dance floor to the spiked punch. (Narrator: no more fruit punch for you...cut this amphibian off...and not just his tail.)