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Streaming org OTK and MoistCritikal announce new prebuilt PC company - Starforge systems

Milennia

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This dug up the memory of the defunct and terrible video game named "Starforge" that came out years ago.

Hoping this company has a better outcome and can redeem the name!
 
Biosnake

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The former COO of Artesian is the CEO of this company LMAO.
Also the prices seem pretty bad:

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Fukuzatsu

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Seems alright? I wonder how the actual build quality is I suppose. Most "boutique" SIs are overpriced though, of course.
 

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Biosnake said:
The former COO of Artesian is the CEO of this company LMAO.
Also the prices seem pretty bad:

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he ran the East Coast offices of Artesian which was the only functional part of the company

It was when he left that it all went to shit


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2xMi7inB28&t=1170s

Not excusing this cause it's an absolute rip off just wanted to point this out

Brando said:
Fucking lol. Someone let Gamers Nexus know.
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Gamers Nexus already did a video about it and the COO was for the East Coast and that was functional
 
Remark

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These prices are ASS

Your just paying to have your PC built on what's probably gonna be a stream with like 200-300 viewers max if that.

Nah bro.
 
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Milennia

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Remark said:
These prices are ASS

Your just paying to have your PC built on what's probably gonna be a stream with like 200-300 viewers max if that.

Nah bro.
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Not defending that and the prices are indeed dogshit, but this is the biggest streaming org and the current viewership on the first build stream is 35k
 
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Milennia said:
Not defending that and the prices are indeed dogshit, but this is the biggest streaming org and the current viewership on the first build stream is 35k
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I just re-read the tweet and saw it's being streamed on the OTK stream. Thought it was gonna be on some random Twitch dedicated to the company. I change my number to 10-15k then :)
 
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ToadPacShakur said:
Yea same. Kinda funny to think about where he's at especially if you watched his stuff like 7-10 years ago. Total respect for getting to where he is today but yea this could go south if not done properly.
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That's the reason I think most of this is Kosher, I mean I've been watching a lot of these people for a long ass time but he's a gold standard for this type of stuff really and putting his name on it isn't a small thing, I imagine he'll make a video about it
 
Synohan

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Overpriced like pre builts usually are, with the perk of having a slim chance to get an email with a date to watch it get built on a Livestream that everyone can watch for free?
 
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Can't wait to order an expensive pre-built PC then donate more money to them when they stream the build of it so they can shout me out.
 
Sabin

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Well if he was the COO of the east branch its pretty good get ngl.

I know that memeing on Artesian is quite fun but the east branch was actually quite compotent and pulled the company ahead.
 
Scottoest

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Prices seem pretty bad (especially that baseline model), but I don't buy prebuilts so I have no idea if that's the norm.

Weird business for a group of Twitch streamers to decide to get into. I suspect this likely means that Charlie will be announced as joining OTK at some point, because it's an equally strange partnership if not lol.

Brando said:
Fucking lol. Someone let Gamers Nexus know.
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Let them know what? The COO wasn't the issue with Artesian, and Gamers Nexus' own videos said as much. The issue with Artesian was their west coast office, which was directly managed by the dipshit CEO in the Starlord jacket who badly wanted to be an internet celebrity.
 
Solidsnakejej

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The CEO of Artisian was Noah Katz, By employee accounts the COO who left last November was the main guy behind the success of the company running the east coast side of the business. According to GN the east coast only had .3-.5% prebuilts returned for repair. I wonder if some of the former Artisian employees are going to join this.


View: https://youtu.be/d9NzY8TDCAY?t=937
 
shotgunbob04

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Please everyone, do not buy any of these. These are overpriced as hell. And a lot of the parts are pretty old at this point. We have a pretty healthy PC gaming community on here who can help you build your own PC. And r/buildapc on Reddit is an awesome community too!

Can't wait for GamersNexus to review this website in a video (or videos) though!
 
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The $3.5k PC has a +40% price mark up...

They also started banning people for bringing up these disgusting prices.

Absolutely shameless. 😂
 
HelloItsPulse

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Another way for these twitch dudes to monetize their impressionable audiences. Shocked that Critikal is in on this though, but I guess if you hang with a crowd long enough you start to become like them.
 
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Seems like every fucking YouTuber is just looking to scam and take advantage of their audience and fanbase. These prices are absolutely dogshit.
 
Zafir

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Funny how similar it is to the start up from the other people who apparently actually did most of the work at Artisian according to that Gamers Nexus video - https://phynixpcs.com
 
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Thorn said:
I thought Critikal was smarter than this
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thought so too but judging from this thread turns out i don't really know what hes been up to lately ,granted i only know him really for his yeah baby meme and pokemon trading videos

don't want to paint everyone at Artisian as the same with the CEO but this doesn't look good at all

i doubt most the people actually working there that didn't even get paid want to join in on yet another scam but i could be wrong
 
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God is there a Twitch influencer who isn't trying to market utter shite to their audiences these days?
 
Nox

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Did they just buy the stuff Artesian had on sale for their liquidation>?
 
Jawmuncher

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Even if you want prebuilt, the prices over here are bad even for that. It just isn't worth the premium to have your desktop "streamed"
 
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