The problem is, the mining comes and goes extremely sporadically, and can cause huge problems. Namely: * Overproduction for the sake of mining can leave you wi

The problem is, the mining comes and goes extremely sporadically, and can cause huge problems. Namely: * Overproduction for the sake of mining can leave you with huge oversupply of cards, which is very costly. * GPU miners can crowd out the enthusiast market, which is terrible in the long term: * gamers have brand loyalty and buy peripherals (like FreeSync monitors) and miners don't. * if gamers can't buy GPUs at affordable prices when they're building their new PC, then (some companies perceive that) they might just buy consoles instead, which shrinks the entire market. This is more a problem for the "budget" market, obviously. * Enthusiasts recommend products to non-tech-savvy consumers, which again, means that if temporary mining sales crowd out non-mining sales, they lose money in the long term.