Why are metal boxes so expensive now?

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we need quality chinese designs

probably because gaymers buy them,

>R&D
>Marketing
>Material Sourcing
>Margins
>Because they can

Most people don't buy a case more than every couple of years or more so they need to capitalize on people buying a case once ever 5 or so years.

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Rising inequality basically. If you're a poorfag you're gonna buy cardboard anyways, but the gamerfags that put LEDs on their Sound Card have nothing better to do with their money than waste 3 digits on machined scrap metal.

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Joke's on you, I'm running overclocked expensive shit.
Can't even hear you over the absolute silence of my NVMe SSD ;^)

$99 dollars is pretty fucking cheap for what your getting. Sure it cost maybe 30 dollars to make and put into a box. However fractal has to make a profit of let say 30%, so they sell the case for 40 dollars, Then the distributor has to make 30% so then it's 55 dollars. Retailer has to make 30% too, so it's 70 dollars. Then they have add $20 shipping into the price since gaymers are poorfags and will scoff at anything but free shipping offers and wow your right near everyone making ten dollars(absolutely fucking nothing) of that case.

>No optical drive slots
Into the trash it goes

Still a shit brown fan having, green motherboard using faggot

>Retailer has to make 30% too
Retailers, publishers and their ilk deserve a tiny margin given how little useful service they provide.
Retailers buy at bulk price and sell at MSRP, the day they even try a 30% markup they might as well make a permanent space for leftover inventory.

Also just buy rosewill you daft fuck!

Trumps metal tariffs I think

I probably would a brown fan, but it's black PCB and good looking cooling, sorry if reality isn't how you feel.

>optical
>2013+

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What are you gonna do with that? Buy a box copy of Winrar?

>he can't install nixie tubes into his case
Modern cases where a mistake

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>$99 dollars is pretty fucking cheap for what your getting.
yikes

>He owns no physical media whatsoever...no DVDs or Blu-ray movies.
>He has no old software on disc
>He has no CDs from back in the day he likes
>He has no use for an multicard sd reader or any of the other things that can go in the space
Way to not see the use and utility of having an option to install useful shit.

They cheaped out on the black front plate.

Does that thing fit in an optical bay?

>useful shit

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Yes
You can fit alot of things in a 5.25in/optical bay and it's really fucking retarded that most new cases don't even have one 5.25 bay so you lose out on ever having the option to install anything new on the front of your case

Honestly I don't like the look of them on cases. What other things can you put in the slots that are useful?

Anything you might need
Extra usb ports, card readers, HDD docks/hotswap bays, fan controllers, water cooling reservoirs, replacement audio jacks, cigarette lighters, the list goes on forever

no no no no

I use a storage drawer.

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The might drive bay indeed covers all needs.
Only children fail to see the glory of the optical drive bay.

found the retard

>Hurr Durr why do you need a optical drive bay user? You only need steam to download fortnight!

lol this is probably the only thing it's good for.

Well unlike you it's good for at least something then isn't it?

>why is this high end case expensive
I bought NZXT case for 120 yurobucks 10 years ago, nothing has changed except the cases aren't complete shit anymore.

Except it does have.

fucking kek

>white-knighting a drive bay

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#rekt

>$99 dollars is pretty fucking cheap for what your getting
I got a better case than this for $7 on shopgoodwill.com so eat shit and die.
sure it cost tenbux to ship but whatever

This but unironically

>buying case that comes with aids

high quality bullshit keeps the economy going