They're actively not winning good pr because gamers realize they're being screwed despite nvidia's rhetoric, and miners can now no longer recoup some money from old cards they no longer need by reselling to gamers. And, everyone realizes how shit this is for the environment.
You can say Nvidia is making a smart business decision (questionable) but to say this isn't anything other than a pr disaster imo is incorrect. The people who were the target of their press releases saw right through it.
The initial sentiment in hacker news and reddit threads was overwhelmingly positive for nividia and against miners.
Now that some time has passed and Linus (from LTT) has released his video I'd say the sentiment is still mixed. I'm still seeing many tweets praising nividia for finally taking a step for gamers.
It's true that cheap cards were available when bitcoin crashed in 2018. I'm not arguing that cheap cards weren't available. I'm saying the feeling that cheap cards are a huge positive for the gaming community is missing the forest for the trees, and forgetting the pain of what happened before there were cheap cards. Cheap cards came around eventually long after the cards had been unavailable and waaaaay overpriced. It was a relief for gamers that the bubble popped, but on balance, it was not a good thing that they had the bubble.
You can say Nvidia is making a smart business decision (questionable) but to say this isn't anything other than a pr disaster imo is incorrect. The people who were the target of their press releases saw right through it.