...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...

They made it too easy.... who know how many new accounts got made in the last couple days that are now elite........

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....

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.

I've been a member since 2012 and have evga products but under a 100 post as well. For those like you and I, at least we didn't just make an account in the last 72 hours to try to get to elite.

EVGA should have made it where you need at least 3 months account age or make it a certain number of quality threads and not posts.

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.

I've been a member since 2012 and have evga products but under a 100 post as well. For those like you and I, at least we didn't just make an account in the last 72 hours to try to get to elite.

EVGA should have made it where you need at least 3 months account age or make it a certain number of quality threads and not posts.

faith730

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.

I've been a member since 2012 and have evga products but under a 100 post as well. For those like you and I, at least we didn't just make an account in the last 72 hours to try to get to elite.

EVGA should have made it where you need at least 3 months account age or make it a certain number of quality threads and not posts.

I mean EVGA will go through and review posts for people applying for the buy sell forums to make sure their legit. Maybe we will get lucky and they will do the save for the Elite queue. Plus sort of those people who suddenly had a need for 2 of the cheapest Elite qualified items EVGA sells the day they announced the 24hr pre-queue

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...
 
 

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... 

I'd be interested to see how many new elite members were created in the last 3 days that have an account age of a week or less. That would at least give a gauge of what kind of hammering the que system will get on day 1 of the 3080ti going live

Why are so many people complaining about the new people being drawn to the brand? This only helps us as evga will be encouraged to offer even more benefits when there is a large enough base

undecided65

faith730

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.

I've been a member since 2012 and have evga products but under a 100 post as well. For those like you and I, at least we didn't just make an account in the last 72 hours to try to get to elite.

EVGA should have made it where you need at least 3 months account age or make it a certain number of quality threads and not posts.

When everyone has Elite (because of spamming for 100 posts), Elite will be meaningless, will be the same as if no one has Elite....

Already is ... meaningless, that is.
 
"Hey people, get in line for all our wonderful, but unavailable, products!"
 
Frankly, I believe it is no more than data mining, i.e. building larger user database.

undecided65
The scalpers will pay a kid $15 to sit there and post 100 posts per account all day to score 3080tis they can resell for 100% markup.
 

Heh, I do not doubt that.
 
The more I think about this, the more I wonder if something is wrong at evga.
 
I could make a quasi-political analogy, but that is not permitted.
 
Anyway, evga makes the rules. If we do not agree, I am sure 'don't let the door hit you ...' is their attitude.
 
 

Besides the 100 posts there are many other ways to become elite. Try to be happy for others instead of being selfish yo

MowTin
The Kingpin queue is Elite Member only and people who order December 21 are still waiting for a Kingpin. So what was the need to expand Elite Membership when they know they won't have enough cards? 

Most people can't afford a $2000.00 USD GPU so I wouldn't worry too much about it. The miners also may shy away from it due to the fact the cost to profit ratio is significantly less than the lesser GPU. Dude, just be happy you are in the queue for any GPU at this point.

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