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AMD R9 Series + Battlefield 4 Promotion: Official Q & A
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Caporegime
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So now when someone offers a bundle at a later date, everyone who bought one with no deal decided they should get one free too? I got a 7970 before never settle started, should I automatically get something that I didn't purchase and wasn't on offer when I did?
In general the games offered are older, by both AMD and Nvidia, because game dev's don't want to take away from their higher priced pre-order first month sales. While a month later the games are often cheaper, depending on the game sometimes vastly cheaper 6 weeks from launch. Game dev's don't want to give a bulk deal to AMD or Nvidia which equates to maybe £10-15 a game when the game is being sold at that time for £30. But when that game price has dropped to £15-20, they are happier to have them included with cards.
In general the games offered are older, by both AMD and Nvidia, because game dev's don't want to take away from their higher priced pre-order first month sales. While a month later the games are often cheaper, depending on the game sometimes vastly cheaper 6 weeks from launch. Game dev's don't want to give a bulk deal to AMD or Nvidia which equates to maybe £10-15 a game when the game is being sold at that time for £30. But when that game price has dropped to £15-20, they are happier to have them included with cards.
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I think you know that's not the case, its not an owt for nowt mentality its the fact the cards came out over here on the 5th November, and have suffered a pretty decent amount of problems, it comes as a bit of a kick in the teeth to find out that buying just 8 days later you can get a free new game. Nevermind their offering of giving a 1000 away to any random Joe who more likely didn't pay for any AMD product just simply lives on a social networking site, yeah I can really see how they can deserve a free game when paying customers who have spent the last week beta testing and troubleshooting problems that so far seem not to matter to AMD can get a big 0.
Pretty much this, they're neglecting early adopters, which imo is a bad idea when they're the early adopters in the first place.
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Someone has hacked Gregster's account, someone should phone Nvidia HQ and tell him
In a rare sensible post, as Gregster said, these aren't free games, it's as simple as that, and the 1000 games on social media isn't shafting early adopters. Cards almost always come with more "free" crap later on. In this case BF4 couldn't be added because Dice/EA wouldn't let them, if they had let them, the card would have cost you £30 more, and not been "free" anyway.
In general you get launch or very near launch, cheap card with nothing, more expensive card with games. Months later to push sales and as supply eases and competition increases, prices drop and games are used as an incentive to sell not an added extra. Never settle before was used as an incentive, here a game is an added extra that you basically pay for.
Yeah, if you can get a £300 290, or a £300 290 + bf4, why wouldn't you choose the later, but £300 290, or £325 290 + bf4.... hardly a fantastic deal. What's sillier is agreeing to a price and card, then deciding when a game is later offered that you were conned or something.
I haven't bought a piece of hardware in a long time that I haven't felt wasn't a kick in the teeth when it was cheaper 2-3 months later, but that is hardware.
I think the last time I felt fantastic about the value was a whatever the heck the dual core phenoms that unlocked to quads were called. £65 for a at the time £120 chip, epic. Early adopters on EVERY generation from EVERY company, get screwed. That's the nature of technology, bundles get better, prices come down, supply is more widespread. Early adopters CHOOSE to pay more to be first, that is why I chose not to buy yet.
You know what, it is valid that you get screwed with tech because the prices can come crashing down in days or rocket up, for instance the 290 launched here Gibbo stuck the Sapphire up as a great 1 day deal at £319.99 then just 1 week later its already down to £307.99.
However I think the problem is, the last thing people with these cards wanted to hear right now from AMD was how they will be ignoring all early adopters and as a good gesture will be giving away a 1000 keys to any random social network sheeple.
It's bad timing, an unkown but very large amount of customers with pc's black screening left right and center and AMD's reps come and update us all to the fact they care nothing for the issue so far.
However I think the problem is, the last thing people with these cards wanted to hear right now from AMD was how they will be ignoring all early adopters and as a good gesture will be giving away a 1000 keys to any random social network sheeple.
It's bad timing, an unkown but very large amount of customers with pc's black screening left right and center and AMD's reps come and update us all to the fact they care nothing for the issue so far.
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Although it isn't, at least not at the moment.
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Early adopting is for fools. I learned that a while ago, let other people pay premiums and deal with any problems on release.
You need to see early adopters as your canaries down the mine!
Hi there
Just to confirm one other thing, the game is only free with a graphics card, if the Etailor advertises so, if the Etailor makes no mention, your not getting a game or entitled to a game as your contract is with the selling Etailor, not AMD or its board partners.
So when buying a graphics card from anywhere, be sure to read clearly what free items they are including and don't expect anything which is not mentioned.
Just to confirm one other thing, the game is only free with a graphics card, if the Etailor advertises so, if the Etailor makes no mention, your not getting a game or entitled to a game as your contract is with the selling Etailor, not AMD or its board partners.
So when buying a graphics card from anywhere, be sure to read clearly what free items they are including and don't expect anything which is not mentioned.
Are you going to offer this bundle anytime soon?
We are trying to get vouchers for our current stock, hopefully it will happen and we can do something in a few days.
Will this mean prices going up?
Last time I buy an AMD card on release day then.
Eligibility for those 1000 codes should be launch day customers only, certainly not random plebs on Facebook that still have a crappy Dell with an 8800GT.
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Last time I buy an AMD card on release day then.
Was the ridiculous "put a deposit down on a card when you don't know the specs or even the final price" stunt not enough to warn you off?
At the very least. In my opinion they should give them out to everyone who bought an R9 card at launch.
I didn't buy an R290X.