• @[email protected]
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    2111 days ago

    Lmao wat. How the fuck does a company making gaming peripherals rack up a $70 million dollar debt? Pretty rough though, the CEO who ran it for 25 years got stood down over it so maybe he got complacent.

    • @[email protected]
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      1110 days ago

      Fanatec is basically sponsoring a million different things, so that’s probably part of it. There’s only so many F1 fans you can sell a steering wheel to.

    • Dettweiler
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      711 days ago

      It’s easy. You cut down the quality of your products rapidly and start being recommended against by the people that used to buy your products.

      Corsair used to be good. I enjoyed their products. However, their quality has plummeted over the past few years, and their iCue software is absolutely terrible. It will routinely crash, and completely lock up my keyboard and mouse.

      • @maccentric
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        110 days ago

        I’ve used a couple of their cases recently (4000 and 5000 series) and was pretty happy with them, they’re high quality and nice to build with. That said, iCue is trash, I just couldn’t care less about RGB.

        • @[email protected]
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          110 days ago

          I haven’t built a desktop system for a few years. Last year, went to do so and discovered that virtually all parts from all vendors had RGB LEDs on the same things. I don’t mean case exteriors, but motherboards, DIMMs, etc. I dunno if it’s just Corsair.

          • @maccentric
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            19 days ago

            It’s not just Corsair, you actually would be somewhat hard pressed to build a PC without some kind of disco lights included these days.

    • @[email protected]
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      Expand expand and expand…expand on the back of the fleeting interest in Sim racing during covid hoping sales keep climbing and people are lining up to give money any anyone who makes Sim racing gear becusee “muh…max and George and Lando muh racing online”.

      Then hope that sales climb to overcome the mountain of debt that just keeps accumulating. Couple that with already making a marginally reliable set of products in the years leading up to thr great opportunity.

      So you’re right, fucking mismanagement and short sightedness.

      Their shit can’t get any worse with corsair making it.

      For the run of the mill person who won’t spend a premium for higher quality product, it is ALWAYS a race to the bottom on price of mediocre goods. That means commoditizing everything that goes into the product becuase you can only squeeze profit from cheaper input costs when your target market won’t pay premium.

    • iAmTheTot
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      111 days ago

      First, you don’t need to say dollar if you use the dollar sign before the number. Second, it was euros, not dollars.

        • iAmTheTot
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          410 days ago

          I correct people because I would want to be corrected, not because I am miserable.

        • @[email protected]
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          110 days ago

          Imagine being this miserable you need to chastise people for helping to correct some simple mistakes.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 days ago

        Great, neither answer the actual question I asked in jest. I appreciate the correction though, however unnecessarily curt it may be.

        • iAmTheTot
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          Curt? Would you have preferred I elaborated more? I feel like that would have been more condescending. I did not answer your question because I did not have an answer for it.

          • @[email protected]
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            110 days ago

            Given your other reply I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you’re being genuine. Curt, rudely brief, emphasis on the rude. There are only a multitude of ways to correct someone politely; especially if the correction changes practically nothing about the original comment. An easy example is “hey just so you know…etc”.

            Also, I think if you’re going to reply with a correction an attempt should ideally be made to actually engage the comment rather than just driving by with a list of corrections. Also, a personal preference, avoid the list. You’re not my employer or my lecturer and those are one of the few people I’m enthusiastic to receive an unsolicited list of corrections from. Tone doesn’t travel great over text so it did come off a bit catty. Certainly wasn’t the worst I’ve been spoken to on the internet so it’s whatever.

            • iAmTheTot
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              210 days ago

              I’ve been told I speak to strangers in a very matter of fact kind of way. I don’t think it has anything to do with text.

              • @[email protected]
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                That could be it but text certainly doesn’t help, since it’s difficult to convey and interpret tone. It’s a widely acknowledged issue with text based communication. I think the correction plus the to the point structure of the correction might have been it. Even just prepending a padding statements like FWIW are the social lubricant needed to ease the tone into friendly/neutral territory. That’s just my opinion, if that communication style works for you that’s fine too.

  • @[email protected]
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    1511 days ago

    Sim racers are among the most enthusiastic of all gamers, often spending thousands of dollars on equipment on top of thousands more on PCs and monitors.

    There’s the flight sim crowd.

    googles

    https://www.simkits.com/

    These guys are selling a six gauge “starter pack” for about 1500 euros. I imagine that one wants at least the basic controls too.

    Looks like 845 euros for the pedals, 500 euros for the yoke, and 230 for the throttle. It also looks like the throttle doesn’t come with the throttle controller, so that’s another 150 euros.

  • @[email protected]
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    1310 days ago

    I almost bought myself a SCUF controller until I realized it’s all run through iCue. Even if they made the best hardware, the experience will suffer until they get some decent software.

    • @mnemonicmonkeys
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      310 days ago

      Don’t forget that SCUF are patent trolls. Them threatening action against Valve for the back buttons on the Ste controller is a major reason why it got axed

    • @[email protected]
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      310 days ago

      When they first released their keyboards the equivalent to iCue was fine. Now it’s actually adversarial.

  • Lexi Sneptaur
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    -1611 days ago

    Corsair can’t even make reliable ram. This is likely to go poorly

    • @[email protected]
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      610 days ago

      First of all their RAM is perfectly fine, and secondly using RAM in an attempt to prove how a game controller is less complicated seems odd.

    • @skullone
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      311 days ago

      I’ve been overclocking Corsair ram for over a decade. I think if there was any complaint it’s that they’re way overpriced.

      • Lexi Sneptaur
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        010 days ago

        I also used it for half a decade and had 4/6 sticks of RAM fail. When I contacted support, I had tor request a manager escalation to get past the engineer who insisted it was a problem with my windows installation. I run Linux and tested it with memtest86+.

        Corsair makes bad products. Your brand loyalty is embarrassing.

        • @skullone
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          210 days ago

          I am not loyal to the brand, I think they offer mid level quality for way too much cost. I think a one off anecdote is not data driven testimony. But to bucket any single anecdote with no other comparison is unfair. I was merely offering a differing experience.

    • @[email protected]
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      110 days ago

      I have only been buying Corsair ram for over a decade. I overclock both on the desktop and my laptops.

      Never had a problem. Bulletproof.