Wouldn't be surprised if that gives you two separate game pass accounts, then. You'd have to make sure any games you played were completed within that 3 month set, even if you could get 6 months of game pass.
True. This is the world we live in now, I guess. "It didn't eat all my data when it went, so I guess it isn't all that bad."
I heard of a Saturn game that randomly did that to internal SRAM when you saved the game. And at least one Win95 game that nuked the entire hard drive when you uninstalled it. Oh, and the Sony CD copy-protection from the late 90s that blue-screened Windows PCs when you stuck it in the drive, and CORRUPTED THE BOOT ROM on PowerMacs. Maybe data loss ISN'T all that bad after all. ... Also, the whole thing with Apple Music deleting people's entire music collection off their hard drives, just to prove I'm not still living in the last century.
This sounds like something Microsoft paid for, since it entices folks to pay for the subscription service after it expires. Wouldn't make sense for AMD to pay for it since MS is really the only beneficiary here, not much different than XBOX Live subsidizing XBOX prices.
Well, yeah. The value here would be over 25% of the cost of your card. Given that prices are even lower now (under 90), there is hardly any margin in a product like that to justify adding a $30 bundled promo to it.
Xbox Pass on PC is the last thing ever a PC gamer will ever want to even take that as free. This GaaS should die. No one in their right minds should buy this cancer or even become a part of this JUNK.
AMD is utter shameless, Nvidia on the other hand always had bundles and with the Super RTX lineup this RX5700 Navi is DOA, I'm happy that Nvidia is stomping them. Too much cancer. Xbox GaaS infestation to PC Win32 ecosystem ? Hell no. If you give them a little chance they'll make the gap wider and wider and one point the gaming itself will become GaaS.
First, Games as a Service is not a Games Library like this.
Secondly, Nvidia isn't doing that out of the kindness of their heart. The games they offer are purely Nvidia optimized games, with gameworks and such. And last I saw, the games on offer weren't even that good.
Thirdly, Game Pass on PC is rather nice. Have you actually looked into it or are you too stuck up to do that? Play 1 new game, and you've paid your subscription for 6 months. play 2 new games and you've just saved a year's worth of gaming. Unlike EA Access, Gamepass included new games too, which might I add, there's nothing exclusive to it. Most games releasing on Game Pass are gonna be available on Steam.
And as for your blatant shilling, why didn't you just say "AMD bad NVIDIA Gud"? Would have saved you so much effort.
I'm not worried much about the idea of a game bundle, but I am reasonably impressed with AMD's CPU offerings. In fact, I'm even moreso impressed now after I got my hands on a laptop with really nice A4-1250 processor. For only clocking at 1.0GHz, it's decently responsive under Linux Mint and the Radeon HD 8210 is good so far (under Mesa - haven't gotten around to loading the OEM video driver yet and not sure if I'll bother as I'm not much of a gamer). I do wish AMD would focus more attention on the thin and light or fanless small laptop category since Intel's offerings are generally lacking in the GPU department and the sub-8W category is really where most of the world is going anyway. Desktops have been dead for years and I'm not even sure why we make such high TDP processors for daily computer usage in a world where we need to focus a lot more on conservation of energy than we have ever before.
3 months for free I sure am glad I got my Vega card while the last promotion was going on where you got the 2 games. At least they are mine now and do not have an expiry date. I play the heck out of The Division 2 since I already had The Division 1. World war Z I gave to my step son since he is into that type of game. To me this new bundle would be useless because of the 3 month only thing and then you lose the pass unless you decide to subscribe to it after that.
Do not get me wrong the Pass itself is a decent thing and maybe some day I might try it for a month to see how good or bad it is but for now not happening.
If I had a choice between diverting $30 of the cost of a GPU between 1) improving hardware specs 2) reducing the purchase price by the same amount 3) packaging a 2nd product ( game bundle ) that I may or may not want
I would never never want option 3 and frankly annoyed that bundles are so common. Instead of acting as a middleman between me and game developers, I'd rather AMD / Nvidia used that cash to up the VRAM size or shader cores or clock speed or cooling solution or etc ...
Pretty sure that for the Xbox for pc bundle the cost to AMD is at most zero. (I suspect it may be negative, with MS paying AMD for each account that pays for time after the three free months).
Although this was an unexpected but gracious move on AMD's part since I do plan on purchasing a 3700X, I would've preferred to obtain a free copy of a game instead. However, I am aware that beggars can't be choosers so there's that.
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Dark42 - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
Since the campaign lasts long enough it shouldn't be too hard to stack vouchers.2 E-Mail addresses and register 2 Game Passes ...
Drumsticks - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
Wouldn't be surprised if that gives you two separate game pass accounts, then. You'd have to make sure any games you played were completed within that 3 month set, even if you could get 6 months of game pass.Lord of the Bored - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
It's like a demo disk pack-in, only shittier(I can still play that copy of episode one of Descent if I can find the disk)Destoya - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
At least it /probably/ won't delete your entire hard drive like the infamous PS2 holiday 2004 demo diskLord of the Bored - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
True. This is the world we live in now, I guess. "It didn't eat all my data when it went, so I guess it isn't all that bad."I heard of a Saturn game that randomly did that to internal SRAM when you saved the game. And at least one Win95 game that nuked the entire hard drive when you uninstalled it.
Oh, and the Sony CD copy-protection from the late 90s that blue-screened Windows PCs when you stuck it in the drive, and CORRUPTED THE BOOT ROM on PowerMacs. Maybe data loss ISN'T all that bad after all.
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Also, the whole thing with Apple Music deleting people's entire music collection off their hard drives, just to prove I'm not still living in the last century.
urbanman2004 - Thursday, July 4, 2019 - link
Then shame on Apple for that BS. I guess I can consider myself lucky b/c I'd been pissed if a demo title crashed my hard drive.webdoctors - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
This sounds like something Microsoft paid for, since it entices folks to pay for the subscription service after it expires. Wouldn't make sense for AMD to pay for it since MS is really the only beneficiary here, not much different than XBOX Live subsidizing XBOX prices.Sahrin - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
MS has made a profit on every Xbox sold since ~halfway through the life of the 360.eva02langley - Thursday, July 4, 2019 - link
Hey, even if microsoft sponsored the deal, it is AMD customers gaining from it.Sttm - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
The GPU glory days are done. No more 3 recent AAA games included, now we get $30 of subscription credit.nandnandnand - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
Who plays video games anymore? It's all about those GPU DeepNudes.eldakka - Thursday, July 4, 2019 - link
It's actually a $0 dollar credit as I don't use these services.clsmithj - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
How they going leave out the RX 550 4GB card. They get no love? I paid $110 for that GPU at Best Buy last year.thesavvymage - Thursday, July 4, 2019 - link
Well, yeah. The value here would be over 25% of the cost of your card. Given that prices are even lower now (under 90), there is hardly any margin in a product like that to justify adding a $30 bundled promo to it.Koenig168 - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
Nice freebie for the Ryzen CPUs. It won't help to sell GPUs though since Nvidia has a game bundle for the Super cards which is a better deal.Quantumz0d - Thursday, July 4, 2019 - link
What is this Cancer bundle packs ?Xbox Pass on PC is the last thing ever a PC gamer will ever want to even take that as free. This GaaS should die. No one in their right minds should buy this cancer or even become a part of this JUNK.
AMD is utter shameless, Nvidia on the other hand always had bundles and with the Super RTX lineup this RX5700 Navi is DOA, I'm happy that Nvidia is stomping them. Too much cancer. Xbox GaaS infestation to PC Win32 ecosystem ? Hell no. If you give them a little chance they'll make the gap wider and wider and one point the gaming itself will become GaaS.
eva02langley - Thursday, July 4, 2019 - link
Oh... man... shilling at its best...urbanman2004 - Thursday, July 4, 2019 - link
Correct me if I'm wrong, but for the folks who don't know, GaaS = Games as a Service.Xyler94 - Friday, July 5, 2019 - link
First, Games as a Service is not a Games Library like this.Secondly, Nvidia isn't doing that out of the kindness of their heart. The games they offer are purely Nvidia optimized games, with gameworks and such. And last I saw, the games on offer weren't even that good.
Thirdly, Game Pass on PC is rather nice. Have you actually looked into it or are you too stuck up to do that? Play 1 new game, and you've paid your subscription for 6 months. play 2 new games and you've just saved a year's worth of gaming. Unlike EA Access, Gamepass included new games too, which might I add, there's nothing exclusive to it. Most games releasing on Game Pass are gonna be available on Steam.
And as for your blatant shilling, why didn't you just say "AMD bad NVIDIA Gud"? Would have saved you so much effort.
PeachNCream - Thursday, July 4, 2019 - link
I'm not worried much about the idea of a game bundle, but I am reasonably impressed with AMD's CPU offerings. In fact, I'm even moreso impressed now after I got my hands on a laptop with really nice A4-1250 processor. For only clocking at 1.0GHz, it's decently responsive under Linux Mint and the Radeon HD 8210 is good so far (under Mesa - haven't gotten around to loading the OEM video driver yet and not sure if I'll bother as I'm not much of a gamer). I do wish AMD would focus more attention on the thin and light or fanless small laptop category since Intel's offerings are generally lacking in the GPU department and the sub-8W category is really where most of the world is going anyway. Desktops have been dead for years and I'm not even sure why we make such high TDP processors for daily computer usage in a world where we need to focus a lot more on conservation of energy than we have ever before.rocky12345 - Thursday, July 4, 2019 - link
3 months for free I sure am glad I got my Vega card while the last promotion was going on where you got the 2 games. At least they are mine now and do not have an expiry date. I play the heck out of The Division 2 since I already had The Division 1. World war Z I gave to my step son since he is into that type of game. To me this new bundle would be useless because of the 3 month only thing and then you lose the pass unless you decide to subscribe to it after that.Do not get me wrong the Pass itself is a decent thing and maybe some day I might try it for a month to see how good or bad it is but for now not happening.
Khilos - Thursday, July 4, 2019 - link
If I had a choice between diverting $30 of the cost of a GPU between1) improving hardware specs
2) reducing the purchase price by the same amount
3) packaging a 2nd product ( game bundle ) that I may or may not want
I would never never want option 3 and frankly annoyed that bundles are so common. Instead of acting as a middleman between me and game developers, I'd rather AMD / Nvidia used that cash to up the VRAM size or shader cores or clock speed or cooling solution or etc ...
WarlockOfOz - Friday, July 5, 2019 - link
Pretty sure that for the Xbox for pc bundle the cost to AMD is at most zero. (I suspect it may be negative, with MS paying AMD for each account that pays for time after the three free months).urbanman2004 - Thursday, July 4, 2019 - link
Although this was an unexpected but gracious move on AMD's part since I do plan on purchasing a 3700X, I would've preferred to obtain a free copy of a game instead. However, I am aware that beggars can't be choosers so there's that.