maxm1
The weird thing is that the forums really have no impact for EVGA. Twitch streams at least make sense for the viewership

How so? Not sure how it is for other people but I personally found a lot of information here that has helped me decide what im doing moving forward

maxm1
The weird thing is that the forums really have no impact for EVGA. Twitch streams at least make sense for the viewership

Twitch streams are a very targeted market and so very specific to gamers. Forums are a catch-all as there are Gamers, Developers, 3D Artists, Enthusiasts. You get a lot of exposure when your company has active forums.

kalebg1

faith730

glenn37216
...its to keep thousands of people from crashing store and to help keep the bulk buying non gamers away. Dont be paranoid.. Not as many will try for this card as the other 3000 series...

The sheer amount of new accounts says otherwise....

Agreed, I mean for EVGA sorting customers from customers is impossible. If people cant or don't want to try to post then they just buy Elite. For them this program is going to look like a massive success in both sales and membership. I mean it would be cool for EVGA to reward people who have been members for over a year or at the least before the 24hr announcement. The 100 posts is a catch 22 tho, a lot of people like myself who have had accounts for several years are in the same push for 100 posts. I made my account when I bought a PSU and was trying to get an EVGA card near the end of the last mining boom, I joined the forum to read learn about EVGA cards/programs and choose the best. I just ended up getting the first card I could (ASUS) so I didnt get Elite.

Yep I created this account in 2014 and had to scramble as well.

It’s not really fair for them to not have some way for those of us who can’t afford to buy new products all the time but were loyal to EVGA from the start to be able to get Elite so I’m glad that they made the post count option available. I mean all of my Nvidia cards have been EVGA - 7900GT, 8800GTS, and now 780 Ti. I have been wanting to upgrade for years now starting with the 1000 series but various reasons from money to crypto and now crypto and scalping have made that impossible. I appreciate the ability to register for a 3070 Ti on day one in hopes I’ll be able to get one somewhat quickly.

Honestly I think message boards are more niche than Twitch now. Most people just see forums as an outdated form of social media, and the average person probably doesn't use any forums regularly (whereas people watch streams all the time).

Ya . . their marketing manager needs to work on their game. 

Or ... pre-planning their excuse when no-one can buy one.
 
e.g. 'Due to so many people signing up and getting in the queue, we cannot meet the demand.'
 
I am sure there are many who will not get a place in the queue that will allow them to buy a card in a reasonable amount of time, because they have jobs *GASP* they need to be at, rather than sitting at a keyboard refreshing their browser every 5 seconds, or are in a time zone that makes it unreasonable to stay up all night, just to get an early place in line. I would also not be at all surprised that there are those who have already automated (read bot) the queue signup, to ensure a place early in the queue.
 
 
 
 

Brad,
This too, will pass.

AlexP11223
 
 

kelkel1
  or are in a time zone that makes it unreasonable to stay up all night

It's US only.


 

Regardless, it still favors those who do not have anything better to do than sit at a keyboard. Seems sort of counter-intuitive, does it not? Favor those who do not have a job to pay for the product?

tomgillotti

Blackcyd
Seriously this post count membership is kinda counterproductive for the forums and maybe even unfair to OG members who've either a) been here for much longer or  b) are existing EVGA customers.
 
Even though I barely made any posts on this forum I did get more active in lurking in these strange times of high demand and long queues.
I'm already an Elite member so I don't feel the need to spam low quality posts, but I have to say this 100 post requirement really resulted in a big drop of quality discussion on these forums.
 
If EVGA wants to go this route they should at least require certain age of the account since I doubt they will go over user's 100 posts to evaluate them because some people are really pushing it with making dozens of posts a day that bring nothing to the conversation...
 
 

Because these types of whiney posts are definitely much higher quality... you're crying over your entitled spilled milk, here... yes, there will be more new people posting and probably a lot of spammy type posts but it's short-lived and the end result is a larger community and more loyal customers... 

You wouldnt know anything about the quality of the forum posts, your account is a week old and your doing your 100 posts. If you get a GPU no one here will ever see you again 

Well, at least it should end in May instead of several months out.

Heh, my 2080 will suffice until at least the 4000 series, maybe longer.

kelkel1
 
Regardless, it still favors those who do not have anything better to do than sit at a keyboard.

Do you have ideas how to make a better system?

faith730

kelkel1
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I would also not be at all surprised that there are those who have already automated (read bot) the queue signup, to ensure a place early in the queue.

Hopefully, they will measures in place to prevent this but with how everything else has been going, I'm not so sure.

The amount of new accounts that have been created and allowed to gain elite status with spam posts (3,4,5 word game, etc) doesn't inspire confidence either.

Saying that they will review for spam posts won't work either as the number if new accounts is ridiculous.

Short of denying all new accounts made in the last week, not sure what can be done and so in the end it'll actually hurt the real members and supporters of EVGA and that's a shame

Yeah the number of counting posts, X word posts, or just comment hi posts has been obscene lately. EVGA really should look into account age for the forums and put a delay on cheap 2 item orders so those scalpers get Élite, but they get it a couple days after the card launch. 

It's to keep people like me happy, who cba to p2w. Gotta save those sweet dollars for the card.

It's at least a deterrent to scalpers somewhat. They like to make 100s of accounts for everything, if they did that with EVGA accounts they would all be pretty obvious (very recently made, and spamming posts in some sort of automated method)