damn i just grabbed a 970 2 weeks ago .. shit lol
Damn so it is a GOG version is it possible to play it on steam?
It's a great deal. The question is why?
When AMD had their huge bundles with R280/X/290/X back during the Kepler competition days, many folks here called it a desperate move to compete/sell more cards. In fact, even I agreed with that assessment.
Does the same apply for NV? If so, there's only one plausible scenario:
By all public accounts, the 970/980 have been selling very well, there's no need for NV to offer extra incentive to move them even faster. Unless..
Nv knows the performance/efficiency of AMD's new lineup and its exceeded their expectation. Time to sell a lot of 970/980 before the hammer falls and they have to get a price cut.
It's possible but these promotional efforts are set far in advance most likely. Witcher 3 comes out in under two weeks and Batman is due in June, it could be as simple as NV wanting to maximize card sales from these game releases while the hype is strong. After all if they included them months after release the bundle would be far less appealing regardless of what AMD does as many gamers will have already bought them.
It does seem strange that they offer both instead of giving the option of one or the other, though.
Not that strange, they are completely separate bundles and each probably have their own terms... Unlike the Ubisoft bundle before, where it was pick one from the start. These two just overlap, which makes for a great time to buy these cards.
It's not strange to bundle an already well selling SKUs with 2x most anticipated AAA titles, at a time where there's zero competition?
I think that's pretty strange. That's too good to be true, a pure charity move from NV.. unless again, they know something is about to threaten 970/980 prices.
It's not strange to bundle an already well selling SKUs with 2x most anticipated AAA titles, at a time where there's zero competition?
I think that's pretty strange. That's too good to be true, a pure charity move from NV.. unless again, they know something is about to threaten 970/980 prices.
For the people that emailed Newegg, what did you exactly say?
Damn so it is a GOG version is it possible to play it on steam?
No, although you can still add it to your steam library as a non-steam game of course (it just won't have the steam overlay or use steam to patch)
Here is what I said.
"I bought this card 2 weeks ago and now Newegg is offering free Batman game. Can I
get this promotion with my purchase or do I have to return my purchase and buy the video card
again?"
Here is what I said.
"I bought this card 2 weeks ago and now Newegg is offering free Batman game. Can I
get this promotion with my purchase or do I have to return my purchase and buy the video card
again?"
The other thing is that the 970/80 are getting slightly 'old' by now - getting on for 8 months already! - so quite a few of the people who'd have got one will have got one already.
Seems a logical enough time to try a bundle to try and push people dithering over the fence.
If nothing else of course, the eventual 980ti is surely likely to dent the pricing on the 980's? Won't have the premium for being the fastest (vaguely affordable ) single GPU any more.
The profit margin on the 960's presumably isn't enough for a big bundle.
This would be plausible except these cards are already selling really well. And it's not like there is NO bundle. The question is why did they feel the need to double the bundle. If the deal to bundle Batman was hammered out months ago, they could've easily chosen to Batman these two cards and move TW3 to say the 960 or heck even the Titan X. Why redouble efforts to push something that's selling really well with no competition. If you are selling something practically as fast as you can make it, you don't respond by sweetening the deal.