A lottery for prized graphics cards and processors was briefly released yesterday at the PC parts vendor’s Newegg site. It is a testament to the continuing scarcity of all games during the ongoing covid-19 pandemic.
The “Newegg Shuffle Event,” which was screenshots saved in Imgur i first informed by PCMag, invited customers to choose from several AMD Ryzen 5 5600X and 7 5800X GPU packages and several AMD motherboards. If selected, they would receive an email to notify them and then could purchase the Newegg packages. The lottery system itself looks better than trying to load an order page furiously, while bots and scalpers capture new stocks, but the included plugins meant PC buyers were getting into a raffle for being sold on instead of getting only specific hardware they were looking for.
“Exactly what the gpu fight needed: RNG booty boxes,” he wrote a commentator in a Reddit thread full of people hiding from the promotion. “The problem is that you’re not understanding the sense of pride and accomplishment that comes with winning the opportunity to pay a big discount for a combined article you don’t want,” another replied.
Newegg did not immediately respond to a request from Kotaku to comment, but yes PCMag that the Shuffle event is currently only in beta testing, and that future versions of this will also include single-purchase items instead of whole packages.
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Nvidia and AMD have announced new lines of high-end graphics cards last fall and since then the practical majority of people have been impossible. This shortage is probably due to a number of factors, from tight supply chains due to the pandemic to many more people who want to bolster their gaming platforms as they distance themselves and work from home. There are also cryptocurrency miners a perpetual charge in the market of powerful PC parts. Last week, Nvidia announced that graphics card supplies “stay thin during Q1“.
There has been a similar shortage for next-generation gaming consoles (new PS5 shares on Amazon sold out almost instantly), prompting many gamers to apply for some sort of lottery system in the future. ‘style of sneakers to order stocks to new stocks as they become available. Looks like this doesn’t show up in the letters soon. Hopefully if such a system gets started, it starts better than Newegg’s GPU lottery.