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AMD to bundle Battlefield 4 with Radeon R9 graphics cards

Gibbo said:
Crossfire is fast, damn quick, but noise levels will creep up with a pair of them going. :D
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More importantly for AMD is Mantle is bringing with it crossfire control via the application, not the driver. Meaning AFR isn't the only crossfire mode available via Mantle in the future ;)

The scaling of AFR has increased anyway, certainly their new method for cards communicating with each other has improved noticeably.


Either way, as for gaming bundles, person buys a card for X amount, weeks later AMD add bf4 to the bundle(though this appears to be the AIB's and not AMD), people who chose to buy a card without bundle get upset they bought a card without a bundle? Not sure how that is something to be upset over. Nvidia announce price cuts and game bundle, and specifically say game bundle will only be available after the price reduction has ended(or the other way around, don't know).

Early adopters generally pay more, nothing new in that, suddenly people complaining over a standard practice(again). The cards apparently cost more, the game is not free, people chose to buy a card that had no BF4 offer, offers/prices change, who bought a card and was unaware of that. Didn't you guys offer a £319.99 card in the first batch that was a price that would only stand for the first X number of cards and wouldn't be that low again soon.... yet still cards available at £309.99 now. Is anyone who chose one of those cards complaining that the price promise wasn't exactly true?


Most of the games in most of these bundles are for older games, not old but not unreleased games. THe reason being pre-order/first month prices of games are generally much higher and drop soon after. Not surprising, outside of Half Life 2 I can't remember an AMD card I've gotten that had a code for an unreleased game.
 
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mine golden ticket currently expire 31st December so i'll keep them for a while longer as i have all the games bar sniper and thief, fingers crossed.
 
Gregster said:
OT, I have never played the Thief games but are they any good?
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They were very good at the time, the new one looks like its trying a bit hard but will give it a chance. The original games were the work of the legendary looking glass studio.
 
drunkenmaster said:
More importantly for AMD is Mantle is bringing with it crossfire control via the application, not the driver. Meaning AFR isn't the only crossfire mode available via Mantle in the future ;)

The scaling of AFR has increased anyway, certainly their new method for cards communicating with each other has improved noticeably.


Either way, as for gaming bundles, person buys a card for X amount, weeks later AMD add bf4 to the bundle(though this appears to be the AIB's and not AMD), people who chose to buy a card without bundle get upset they bought a card without a bundle? Not sure how that is something to be upset over. Nvidia announce price cuts and game bundle, and specifically say game bundle will only be available after the price reduction has ended(or the other way around, don't know).

Early adopters generally pay more, nothing new in that, suddenly people complaining over a standard practice(again). The cards apparently cost more, the game is not free, people chose to buy a card that had no BF4 offer, offers/prices change, who bought a card and was unaware of that. Didn't you guys offer a £319.99 card in the first batch that was a price that would only stand for the first X number of cards and wouldn't be that low again soon.... yet still cards available at £309.99 now. Is anyone who chose one of those cards complaining that the price promise wasn't exactly true?


Most of the games in most of these bundles are for older games, not old but not unreleased games. THe reason being pre-order/first month prices of games are generally much higher and drop soon after. Not surprising, outside of Half Life 2 I can't remember an AMD card I've gotten that had a code for an unreleased game.
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DM in wall of text shocker.


AMD latch onto Title of the Year, BF4, and create a BF4 290X bundle. Charge a premium. No problems there.

AMD launch R9 cards only at retail, no problem there.


Shortly after AMD include BF4 with all R9 purchases. But exclude all stock bought by retailers, do not offer it to those who already bought into R9 and increase cost price to retailers.

- Not offering to those who already bought - Not really an issue to be honest, it happens.

- Excluding stock bought by retailers - Starts to get a bit crappy here. Talk about product fragmentation much? Does AMD really want to cause this much upset and this much confusion? Not to just their customers but their RETAIL OUTLETS?

- Retailer decides they will buy in new stock to include the BF4 code - Yeah...going to cost you more now. Double shafted. Increasing price not so much an issue, but basically forcing you to buy in new stock simply to offer the BF4 R9 product deal to compete with other retailers with a price hike to boot? Smoooooooooth.


It's a mess. Even excluding 'fairness' or otherwise it's a damn mess. Game Tickets, Bundled Games, Re-launch of Never Settle promotion......what are AMD doing?!
 
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This is really bad both for customers who paaid extra for the bf4 bundle and for ocuk who could be left with obsolete stock. Who going to buy a 290 without the free game over one with it?

For those of us who are waiting on purchase it is a great offer though
 
Sin_Chase said:
DM in wall of text shocker.


AMD latch onto Title of the Year, BF4, and create a BF4 290X bundle. Charge a premium. No problems there.

AMD launch R9 cards only at retail, no problem there.


Shortly after AMD include BF4 with all R9 purchases. But exclude all stock bought by retailers, do not offer it to those who already bought into R9 and increase cost price to retailers.

- Not offering to those who already bought - Not really an issue to be honest, it happens.

- Excluding stock bought by retailers - Starts to get a bit crappy here. Talk about product fragmentation much? Does AMD really want to cause this much upset and this much confusion? Not to just their customers but their RETAIL OUTLETS?

- Retailer decides they will buy in new stock to include the BF4 code - Yeah...going to cost you more now. Double shafted. Increasing price not so much an issue, but basically forcing you to buy in new stock simply to offer the BF4 R9 product deal to compete with other retailers with a price hike to boot? Smoooooooooth.


It's a mess. Even excluding 'fairness' or otherwise it's a damn mess. Game Tickets, Bundled Games, Re-launch of Never Settle promotion......what are AMD doing?!
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Don't forget that when Gibbo tried offering the original bundle with the new cards he got a slapped wrist by AMD for doing so.
It seems to me that AMD couldn't have messed this up more if they tried.
 
Mr.Cookie said:
mine golden ticket currently expire 31st December so i'll keep them for a while longer as i have all the games bar sniper and thief, fingers crossed.
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I'm in the same boat as you mate, I'm also sitting on an unused Golden Ticket that expires on December 31st. But apart from Hitman Absolution there's nothing from the current lineup that I really want or haven't already got :(
 
Gibbo how are you going to promote the current stock of 290 cards they are not likely to look competitiv compared to rivals cards that offer the game
Really you are not going to buy any of the new stock? This will leave overclockers not selling one of the most important current cards?
Its such a sucky situation.
 
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