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AMD Gaming Evolved Center (Raptr)

l0z said:
If AMD aren't paying you for promotional activities, LtMatt, then they should be.
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Just spreadin the love for us AMD folk as ive won some codes free recently myself. :)

That said i welcome any ££ AMD are willing to offer me. Though i prefer payment in GPU currency, if possible. :p
 
Anand said:
We normally don’t cover contests and giveaways, but this one is just a bit different than the others and sheds some light on the inner workings of AMD, so we’ll take a quick look at it.

AMD is announcing today that they’re starting up a rewards program for users of their Gaming Evolved Application. The rewards program, dubbed AMD Rewards (not to be confused with Radeon Rewards) is a point based system that will see AMD rewarding users for using the Gaming Evolved application. The points in turn will be redeemable for a number of items, including games and some 3rd party hardware items, but most notably Sapphire Radeon R9 cards. All told, AMD is apparently putting up $5 million USD in merchandise, which would be a significant expense for a single promotion.

What makes this notable is the actions that will earn points in the program. AMD’s press release doesn’t have a complete list, but using the GEA game optimization service and playing supported games are specifically mentioned as activities that earn points. As we covered back in November when the GEA launched, the ad-hoc nature of data collection being used by Raptr and AMD meant that the service started with a very limited data set for optimization recommendations, due to a lack of data to bootstrap the service. Without a dedicated group to provide at least the initial data, the service would be slow to ramp up as AMD needs users playing games and running the GEA first, and only then would they be able to generate recommendations.

This latest promotion looks to be an effort at finally solving the data problem by providing an additional incentive for Radeon owners to use the GEA. If AMD can get enough data collected to make the service widely useful, then it would be able to achieve the critical mass of users needed to make the GEA game optimization service self-sustaining. We'll have to continue to keep an eye on the service and see what this does for AMD's data set. The idea behind the optimization service is very cool, so hopefully this promotion can give AMD the additional data the service needs to really shine.
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Source
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7769/...ds-program-for-the-gaming-evolved-application
 
Mike306 said:
What data do AMD collect using this app? Have they said or or they keeping that quiet?
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It collects the settings you use for games, like Battlefield 4 Video settings. In options it says

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You can disable it if you wish i suppose. I don't bother personally as all of my hardcore porn is legal. :p

You can also turn off notifications etc, so the app never bothers you. It just awards you points after you finish playing a game.
 
hhmmmm.......this has now repeaked my interest to reinstall this thing......will do it when I get home from work :) Free Rewards works for me...:D
 
I had 4200 points built up, then i clean installed my system and now i only have 2000 points.

Given up on it.
 
humbug said:
I had 4200 points built up, then i clean installed my system and now i only have 2000 points.

Given up on it.
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Did you log back into your old account? Your point should still be there if you created an account ya big noob lol.
 
LtMatt said:
Did you log back into your old account? Your point should still be there if you created an account ya big noob lol.
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They recently did a rebalancing of the points rewarded and thus everyone lost a large amount of points, i went from from around 7k to just under 3k, that's probably where his points went.
 
This is a very good idea, nice to see one of the top companies come up with an idea that is actually going to be useful the more it is used.
 
im scared to install this again as i have a shiney new install of windows 8.1
are the freebies worth it?
sell it to me matt :p
 
Mei said:
im scared to install this again as i have a shiney new install of windows 8.1
are the freebies worth it?
sell it to me matt :p
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Yeah its worth it. You can alter settings so it never disturbs you and you just quietly earn points. Once you've earned points go to the rewards tab and you can enter weekly/monthly game giveaway comps for free gold vouchers. Save up 5,000-15,000 points and you get free games. Its definitely worth looking into i think. Post your addy here when you do it.
 
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