Nvidia deals and promotions

As far as I'm concerned, this is the same thing as Nvidia ceasing promotional game distribution altogether.

This really does sound like a violation of anti-tying provisions and a nice attempt at violating our right to first sale privileges. I almost only buy games via codes. It was well worth that. I did the same thing with the Arkham series. The Steam store prices are ridiculous. There may be more comments in this discussion. Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to turn on Classic Discussion System in your preferences instead.

Migrate from GitHub to SourceForge quickly and easily with this tool. Nvidia is putting a stop to the resale of bundled promotional game keys by tying them to a specific graphics card purchase, according to Ars Technica. Users must also ensure that the requisite graphics card is "installed before redemption. Those codes could then be redeemed on Nvidia's website, which spit out the relevant Steam, Uplay, Origin, or Microsoft Store key. Since the promotional game codes were not tied to a specific account, many users took to either gifting spare keys to friends or selling them on eBay in order to offset the cost of the graphics card purchase.

GFE's hardware check is based only on the wider product range, and not on a specific serial number. A full set of instructions for redeeming codes is now available on Nvidia's website. This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted. More Login. Re: Score: 2.

Kyosuke writes:. Re: Score: 3. And then Nvidia will complain when sales start to slump Why do they care? Score: 5 , Insightful. Share twitter facebook linkedin. Re:Why do they care? Score: 4 , Insightful. Parent Share twitter facebook linkedin. Re: Score: 1 , Funny. You're welcome. Re: Why do they care? Score: 1. Well gee if there was nothing to pirate people would have to settle for playing all the free and open source games out there, and use operating systems that are likewise.

Whatever would we do? Re: Score: 1. Valve has shown Free to Play games can be golden gems.. Re: Score: 2 , Informative.

Bundled games are crap for the most part. Yeah, but the game maker probably paid to have that game bundled. Often the dev gives Nvidia game codes in exchange for "free" hardware for the studio. If you give n keys to Nvidia, then that's a potential n copies of the game not being sold in actuality, less than n because not everyone who buys the new GPU would also buy your game. If some of those people go on to sell the key to someone else, that eats further into your possible sales some people playing your game prefer AMD to Nvidia; they won't have access to a "free" code with a GPU, but now they can get one for cheap instead of buying one from you.

We really need to change the way we look at downloads. The "intellectual property" analogy more or less worked when each copy was tied to an actual physical object. Transfer the object, and you transfer the copy. There were still flaws but it largely did what it was intended to do. Now, when a large proportion of data is sold in an intangible, trivially copyable format, the analogy just falls over. It makes no sense to treat the data this way. Score: 5 , Informative.

Providing your password to a third-party is dumb and often a breach of contract in most cases. Effectively, nvidia added whatever the. More than anything its to force usage of GFE. Nvidia wants its little storefront on PC too.

But they can, that's pretty much what they're doing here. Its not being "abused" - its called first sale doctrine. It wasn't free, it was part of the product you bought. A product which would have cost exactly the same amount from a different retailer which is not one of Nvidia's partners e. It's an activation requirement. Why would that entitle you to a stronger warranty?

Why though? AMD does verification as well. Re: Why though? Score: 2. Grey market. Windows only! Score: 3.

So Linux and mac gamer don't get the codes or is nvidia ok with them trading the steam codes. Those games don't run on either platform, so what would the point be? It will never be more than a tiny fraction of the market. Re:Windows only! FoSS drivers versus proprietary Score: 1. The GeForce Experience Score: 1.

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The GeForce Experience Nvidia; they way you're meant to be played. Screw your customers, just because you can Score: 2. This just strikes me as an unnecessary shot in their customer's balls by nVidia, who is racking in money hand over fist anyone seen their stock price this past year? Remember Linux Torvalds giving Nvidia the bird? Oh, much better Score: 2.

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What's their contingency? I cant believe Uplay is still a thing Score: 2. I believe even games purchased on steam from Ubisoft force you to create an account. I'd hazard that both Origin and Uplay probably hurt PC game sales for those publishers, I'm sure I'm not alone in not being interested in using multiple services and dealing with multiple friends lists etc. If someone could make a service that is an umbrella for all of these, I bet it would be popular. Combine my Facebook, Google and LinkedIn networks I imagine it could turn out really crappy, but if they did a really good job, maybe even linking contacts across networks if they were the same person, I'd be interested.

Of course then I'd want more con. Some games are only available on UPlay; that's the only reason I use it. Also, they gave away something like 7 games in 7 months last year.