Wednesday, March 12th 2014
NVIDIA Springs Ahead with New GeForce Game Bundles
Tired of shoveling snow? Want to beat the winter blahs? How about ushering in the start of spring with two new exciting game bundles from NVIDIA? Starting today, gamers who purchase select NVIDIA GeForce GTX desktop GPUs and GeForce GTX-powered notebooks can take advantage of two new bundle offerings, a redeemable code for DAYLIGHT or $150 of in-game currency for Heroes of Newerth, Path of Exile, and Warface.
DAYLIGHT, a procedurally-generated psychological thriller from Zombie Studios, is also the world's first game built on Unreal Engine 4. Featuring NVIDIA PhysX technology for an interactive, immersive nightmare, DAYLIGHT will scare the pants off you as you explore an abandoned hospital with only your cell phone for illumination. Purchasers of GeForce GTX TITAN graphics cards, as well as GTX 780 Ti, 780, 770, 760, 690, 680, 670, 660 Ti and 660, will receive a redemption code for DAYLIGHT, which will be activated on April 11, 2014, the day the game launches.
Alternatively, purchasers of GeForce GTX 650, 650 Ti, 750, 750 Ti desktop graphics cards or other select GeForce GTX based notebooks will receive $150 ($50 per title) of in-game currency for three of the world's most popular free-to-play titles, which combined have more than 65 million registered users worldwide:
DAYLIGHT, a procedurally-generated psychological thriller from Zombie Studios, is also the world's first game built on Unreal Engine 4. Featuring NVIDIA PhysX technology for an interactive, immersive nightmare, DAYLIGHT will scare the pants off you as you explore an abandoned hospital with only your cell phone for illumination. Purchasers of GeForce GTX TITAN graphics cards, as well as GTX 780 Ti, 780, 770, 760, 690, 680, 670, 660 Ti and 660, will receive a redemption code for DAYLIGHT, which will be activated on April 11, 2014, the day the game launches.
- Warface, a brand new shooter from the creators of FarCry and Crysis
- Heroes of Newerth, a session-based multiplayer RPG game based on the phenomenally popular Defense of the Ancients (DOTA)
- Path of Exile, an online action RPG set in a dark fantasy world, that also garnered Gamespot's PC Game of the Year 2013 award
13 Comments on NVIDIA Springs Ahead with New GeForce Game Bundles
"I was losing the game against superior players, but my parents make enough so I can pay off EA and other publishers with in game transactions to win!!!"
Congratulations on becoming the problem Nvidia. Asshats.
Regardless the F2P model is hugely popular these days, and if you don't care for the games sell the codes, no need to whine and cry about it.
Its about gamers owning the game and content they play, I will pay for a game, but I don't want to have to pay another $9.99 to buy the X gun or whatever to progress, I want to earn it through challenges and skills acquired. This is the equivalency of every kid getting a award for participation, even if they failed and didn't participate. It is the McDonalds dollar menu vomit repackaged and resold as value added, pre-digested.
TLDR; in game transactions are gangrene to the gaming community.
The top Premier League teams have buy and pay the best players to have any hope of winning anything, and seeing as they are the few that can afford to do so, it isn't fair to other teams either, but soccer like gaming is big business and that is just the nature of the beast these days.The problem is Millions have already shown they were happy to pay out each month just to play a game, and then pay out again for the countless expansions.
You might not get the full experience with F2P games, but the fact is you can play them without getting your wallet out.
/shrug
Inherently there is no conflict between F2P and P2W, its all up to how the game is thought out. After sinking 150 hours in Warframe and about the same in BLR I can tell you, if I had a business/wife/kids/study medicine/engineering right now and I like a F2P game I would pay for progress right out of the bat, to save myself lots of time and still enjoy the game. In that particular case I'd take a micro transaction gladly, instead of playing 2-4 hours a week continuously for a year and just scratch the surface of the game. While writing this I relaized this shows how well the micro-transaction model is working.
Do either of you like or play Civ or other strategy games?