Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "Logically Answered" channel.

  1. So basically, market capitalization was wrong, because Corsair went public in the middle of a bubble and is now either at or getting to their fundamentals, they have poor software and their customer service sucks, which is not unique to them... Frankly, I feel we have a different problem. Back in a day, building a PC for gaming was a right of passage. You built it yourself or you left another gamer to build it for you, not some third party integrator, that used single brand parts or someone, who'd simply pick, what they could get the best pricing on directly from a vendor or two. I never trusted Corsair with anything but power supplies, Asus with their their motherboards and anyone other than Kingston for RAM. As result, my computer doesn't exactly look presentable, but I know it has parts I can rely on for years both in durability and performance. But I am old school. These days, gaming is not the nerdy stuff to do anymore and people want things done as simply as possible and don't build as much anymore, hence rise of system integrators, hence, when company creates one, push strictly their or as much as possible their stuff, hence companies don't do, what they do best and don't have the resources to acquire sufficient expertise in all the fields necessary to build a good product, not to mention they have outright incorrect incentive to follow, if the integrator is owned by a brand. So my two cents is this: Customers have changed, this changed the predominant computer building culture. We went from outright artisan crafts to mass produced goods, which are not always produced the right way, because of incorrect incentives for some types of system integrators.
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