The year 2021 portends full of difficulties for the world gaming village.
The 2020 epidemic was thought to be the biggest difficulty of the gaming industry, but entering this year, many other factors have accumulated into this gray picture.
Experiencing a difficult 2020 year, gamers thought it was the worst year. However, when it comes to 2021, it seems that things are not better, but worse than the previous year. Let’s take a look at what we are and will meet in 2021, contributing to making the game village more “tired” than the previous year!
Covid is still complicated and has no end
It is undeniable that we have regained some advantages with the epidemic compared to the passive beginning of the epidemic. But having an advantage does not mean winning quickly, winning neatly. When we have a vaccine, the epidemic will mutate, this battle will continue for at least another year or two. As the first batch of vaccines became widely available around the world and successive batches of vaccines against the variants were produced.
The constant delay at the end of Cyberpunk 2077 is attributed to working from home
The damage of the disease to the game village is well known to everyone. Due to many outbreaks and game studios having to let employees work from home, causing many difficulties. Although many companies reassure that working from home is still effective, the reality shows the opposite. A lot of games have to delay deeply, delay many times. People even consider working from home to be a big cause of Cyberpunk 2077’s scandal, releasing the game and still working hard to fix bugs a month later.
Geforce RTX 30 series launched but always out of stock
On the hardware side, the epidemic affects the equipment supply chain, so gaming hardware is also more or less affected, creating a shortage. It can be mentioned that the new PS5 and PC components, especially video cards, are in short supply. Firms try to reassure that there will be enough goods, but when they go to buy, they encounter the type of “online saying that there is no shortage of goods, go online and buy”.
Bitcoin fever unexpected
At the end of 2020, the bitcoin price spiked and the momentum continued to break previous years’ records. This leads to a re-heating of the buffalo plow market. People go to collect all the devices that can mine coins, most of which are mid-range and high-end video cards. This makes history repeat once again when PC gamers who need to upgrade or buy a gaming console find it extremely difficult to find a gaming video card. Some popular mid-range games for games such as GTX 1650, GTX 1660 have been collected almost completely and the price of the rest has also nearly doubled.
The video card was missing due to Covid and was also collected to plow coins
Nvidia has reassured that the Covid season out of stock will be resolved by the beginning of this year. However, the bitcoin storm caused them to reassure them that by the end of the year, the Geforce card market can be stabilized. Accompanied by a solution to produce its own coin plow card and at the same time limit the ability to plow the coin of the gaming card. However, the sudden leak of the code to unlock the coin-plowing limit in the recent driver may make its efforts more difficult.
AMD specifically stated that they do not want to create a wall for video card users. AMD’s technology is geared towards optimal gaming and the coin plow task is still running but not very strong. So they don’t need to intervene.
Video cards are out of stock, people turn to find ways to mine coins on consoles
The console people who used to laugh at PC Master Race because of the problem of plowing coins to destroy the market are now shaking when it is reported that a hacker has successfully hacked and turned the PS5 into a powerful coin plow machine. With a price advantage compared to PC, if it is hacked into a coin plow, buying a PS5 plow will be more profitable than using a PC video card. Therefore, this rumor has not been widely proven, but it also makes PS5 fans who are giving up on buying the device stand still.
Meanwhile, no one mentioned Xbox Series at all. I don’t know if I should drop “ha ha” or “hu hu”.
Economy and pocket money
As mentioned above, Covid has a heavy impact and the income of gamers is also a victim. After 1 year of trying to overcome the epidemic, many gamers and companies and industries are almost exhausted. The epidemic has decreased, but it is still long, so those who have a reserve fund have used up most of it, and those who can’t stand it have to leave the game.
Business stagnation due to the epidemic causes personal finances to be severely affected
In such a situation, many gamers have to sadly choose to quit the game to take care of the rice bowl first. Now that I have money to wait to buy a video card or PS5 is already rich, many people sometimes even have to sell their laptops, leave the city to go back to their hometown to manage food due to unemployment.
Ending
The game is slow and less often delayed, equipment is lacking but prices are increased, income is affected by difficulties during the epidemic season. All are more visible, darker and wider in this 2nd Covid year (2021).
Hopefully, after going through these years of epidemic, everyone will recover and we can play the game happily like before. Now I can swim to where or to go, but I don’t know what to do.
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