Thursday, September 7th 2023
AMD Starfield Bundle Updated to Include Radeon RX 7800 XT & RX 7700 XT Cards
AMD and Bethesda's Starfield Game Bundle promotion kicked off back in mid-July, with a wide range of current and previous generation hardware qualifying for the campaign. It was very apparent, at the time, that Team Red had bolstered the list of GPUs with plenty of mid-range RX 6000-series (RDNA 2) models—in absence of heavily rumored successors. AMD's Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT graphics cards were finally introduced at Gamescom 2023, and reached retail outlets yesterday. Post-unveiling it was revealed that all Radeon RX 7000-series desktop cards would be eligible for the Starfield campaign, but the new Navi 32-based models were not mentioned in specifics.
AMD has—very recently—quietly updated its Reward and Gaming campaign pages with revised information—Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT GPUs are now present on the list of qualifying products, alongside the addition of an oddball semi-sibling—Radeon RX 7900 Golden Rabbit Edition (GRE). These graphics cards sit in an upper tier that grants customers a digital download copy of Starfield Premium Edition.
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AMD has—very recently—quietly updated its Reward and Gaming campaign pages with revised information—Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT GPUs are now present on the list of qualifying products, alongside the addition of an oddball semi-sibling—Radeon RX 7900 Golden Rabbit Edition (GRE). These graphics cards sit in an upper tier that grants customers a digital download copy of Starfield Premium Edition.
18 Comments on AMD Starfield Bundle Updated to Include Radeon RX 7800 XT & RX 7700 XT Cards
Like the fact that you can fly 7+ hours to Pluto in real time seamlessly (something that 99% people wont try) and planets actually follow their orbits but at the same time you have to endure constant loading screens when exiting or entering you ship. (something that 99% people will have to endure).
But regardless of the game itself it does add value to the new cards to have a new AAA game bundled with it.
Personally id rather have them $60 cheaper and choose my own game or no game.
I'm not much of a gamer these days, but it must be good as I've seen a massive positive change in AMD CPU sales since the promo was launched.
The gamepass proposition seems a lot more likely to influence Xbox sales as you are only paying for the console + 15 bucks to get going. Obviously it costs more over time but I think we've seen people are willing to commit to large costs ($180 per year) if they are billed in $15 increments for whatever reason.
Subscriptions are evil genius, more people can afford $15 now rather than $60. For a lot of people it's more about cashflow than the raw amount. Just look at mortgages.
You could use it to invest the money not paid up front and get a return on it as you make payments on what is effectively an interest free loan. Basically the advantage of a mortgage vs paying for something up front in full. Could be done with very little risk (especially if you're just collecting interest and not putting the money into more risky stocks) so in theory this would be the financially prudent way to go but I doubt most people have the self restraint to not touch the money that was "saved". You aren't making a lot from interest on a few hundred dollars over a few months but money is money nonetheless.
I'm rethinking my comparison to mortgages, which they are just giant loans, they're also leveraged bets on house prices, so you actually do have a good chance to make money from them, unlike normal pay later things!
Anyway, enough mortgage chat, let's get back to wasting money on overpriced GPUs!