Picture this: you run an Esports hotel in China, and your rooms are decked with high-end gaming PCs, equipped with Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 GPUs. This is what one hotel in China offered its guests, but sadly, some of those said guests took it a step further and helped themselves to the components, literally.
In a video posted on Reddit by Zestyclose-Salad-290, you can see and hear the owner of one of these Esports hotels showing several desktop gaming PCs missing their 9800X3Ds and RTX 5070s. Yes, several PCs. Not only that, the thieves also made off with some of the Logitech keyboards that were also provided by the hotel.
Recently, a theft took place at an esports hotel in China. Several young guests stole Ryzen 9 9800X3D processors and RTX 5070 graphics cards from multiple gaming PCs along with several gaming mice before checking out. The hotel owner has filed a police report. Translation of the audio in comment.
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The translation of the hotel owner’s video basically says that he had messaged the “guests” on WeChat if they had broken anything, only to find out that the person on the other end had blocked him. At that point, he realised something was afoot and went to check the room, only to find the deed had been done.
As if to add insult to injury, the hotel owner also said that the thieves didn’t even take the memory modules, or RAM sticks, with them, surmising that maybe they didn’t know how to remove it. Highly unlikely, though, considering that these people clearly knew the components they were after and, by the owner’s retelling, they even purchased a screwdriver at the hotel.
There is reason to believe that the thieves had planned all this; the Esports hotel most likely advertised the specifications of their PC, which is probably what allowed them to plan ahead of time on how to execute the theft, along with their exit strategy.
Now, we’re not condoning theft in any way, shape or form. However, thievery of hotel property isn’t an uncommon sight and is practically the norm; some help themselves to towels, bath robes, and more commonly, the toiletries. The latter because they’re disposable most of the time. Stealing PC components from a hotel, though? That’s a new low.
