AMD Never Settle Bundle ?Gaming Evolved? Roadmap Leaked ? Gets Battlefield 4, Watch D

[Final8ty]

AMD launched their Never Settle bundle as a part of their ?Gaming Evolved? initiative last year and since then has seen some major updates. The most major updates were the recently released ?Never Settle? and ?Never Settle: Reloaded? bundles which offered AMD GPU buyers with a wide range of game promotions depending on the model of the card they bought.

AMD didn?t only stop at bundling latest games with their Radeon HD 7000 series but like their rival NVIDIA, released a new range of graphical features such as the highly praised ?Tress FX? effect which used OpenCL to render Lara Croft?s hair more realistic with accurate physics in her latest adventurer?s in Tomb Raider, the game was also bundled with AMD GPUs. The TressFX?s OpenCL rendering is sometimes called as AMD?s answer to PhysX from NVIDIA.

During the GDC 2013 announcement of Battlefield 4, it was revealed that AMD?s upcoming Radeon HD 7990 was the graphic card running the 17 minutes of gameplay of the game and that too in 4K resolution downscaled to 1080P. Later on, it was reported that AMD might possibly be bundling the card with DICE?s Battlefield 4 game and a further AMD Never Settle bundle was being planned for launch that would be including Watch Dogs and a few other ?yet to be announced? PC titles.


The folks over at TechReport forums seem to have found a confidential image of what seems to be a roadmap of AMD Never Settle bundle and would be including eight of the latest upcoming titles to spice up the value of AMD GPUs in 2013. These include some of the major blockbuster titles of 2013 such as Battlefield 4, Grid 2, Watch Dogs and Company of Heroes 2 which without a doubt are the most hyped around games of this year. The titles are listed below:Battlefield 4

GRID2
Company Of Heroes 2
Total War: Rome II
Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Lost Planet 3
Raven?s Cry
Watch Dogs

It can be noted that we won?t be looking at all of these games to be included in a single AMD Never Settle bundle alone. AMD has in the past made set of four titles for their Never Settle bundle so its likely that they would be following the same order again. Since Battlefield 4 and Watch Dogs are pitted for Q3/Q4 2013 launch dates, we may be looking at their bundles later in the year, possibly when AMD is on the verge on launching their Radeon HD 8000 series. As for titles like Company of Heroes 2, Lost Planet 3 and Grid 2, they are scheduled for launch earlier so they may be possibly coming with the next AMD never settle bundle.

Nevertheless, if this is true then AMD certainly would be adding more value for their consumers by giving them some of the latest titles to be available in 2013. AMD would also be expanding their Gaming Evolved programme amongst their Trinity and Richland APUs by bundling select A-series chips with SimCity.

http://wccftech.com/amd-never-settle...#ixzz2RFwtp432

[BuBBle.D]

Thats a great list of games. Bravo AMD.

[El Mano]

BF4? Screw console games, they got CoH2 and Rome II!!

[kromosto]

vaow amd is doing this right. i think they will make me buy another 7970

[Banderazz]

BF4? Screw console games, they got CoH2 and Rome II!!

+1!

[Rollo]

First two Never Settle bundles were the best bundles I've ever gotten with a card, and made the cards the best deal I've ever gotten.

Not really interested in these. Oh well.

[paulbagz]

BF4? Screw console games, they got CoH2 and Rome II!!

CoH1.5 lol

-PB

[Mk]

vaow amd is doing this right. i think they will make me buy another 7970

the 8000's are around the corner aren't they?

[kromosto]

i don't know if they are that near but if they make bundle available with 7970s then i surely will get a second 7970 instead of a 8000

[El Mano]

I regret going with the green team this time. Had I bought a 7970 rather than a 680 I would gladly buy a second one with the new bundle.
Buying a second 680 with the 700 series around the corner doesn't really make sense unless they cut prices, and Nvidia's current bundle (just Metro) isn't really helping.

This is for you graphics heads:

[PatRaceTin]

wow nice bundle

[Musho]

Awesome titles! There goes my money...

[DefStar]

Those are games I would buy anyway, AMD is literally selling me a 7970 for $100 or less !

It follows the exact opposite law of the console business model:
CONSOLES--sell hardware at a loss, make up lost money with game sells.
AMD--sell hardware at a profit, use profits to give games away for free.

[Blaber]

Those are games I would buy anyway, AMD is literally selling me a 7970 for $100 or less !

It follows the exact opposite law of the console business model:
CONSOLES--sell hardware at a loss, make up lost money with game sells.
AMD--sell hardware at a profit, use profits to give games away for free.

I guess what AMD is doing is a part of their Gamming evolved program long term plan to help reward collaborating game studios & may be even counter reduce AMD's cash inflow into game development by help selling these games as Bundles with their cards , there has to be more to it that what meets the eyes.

Anyways for buyers its excellent offer

[blindbox]

Nice titles but I've been holding off for 8970 to come, some day.

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

I bought a 7950 for a friend's build. Couldn't beat it for $240 w/ the games.

Interestingly (because I dropped the price & kept the game code), I got Crysis 3 & Bioshock Infinite. I couldn't get Crysis working (has to be autheticated on Origin, not Steam), so I emailed them, lol. After telling me I needed Origin, I received this email:

Thank you for contacting support@amd4u.com.

FarCry? 3 Blood Dragon is now available in the Never Settle Reloaded promotion! And there’s even more good news for those of you that have already redeemed a code: we’re giving you a FREE COPY by email to say thank you for supporting AMD Radeon™! Codes for FarCry? 3 Blood Dragon will be sent out starting the first week of May after the game is released.

Your request has been received and will be responded to within two business days. Each response is attended to personally by a member of our support team and we are working diligently to answer requests in the order received as soon as possible.

Regards,

AMD Support

I guess enough people are having problems (or don't read lol) & they are trying to please people? I won't complain one bit. Is this update email common?

[w0mbat]

Is this update email common?

Everyone gets it. FC3: BD has been added to the bundle.

[deathman20]

Holy crap, they are getting some good games. Its cheaper to buy the video card than the games now lol.

[n!Cola]

BF4? Screw console games, they got CoH2 and Rome II!!

Watch Dogs for me !