AMD to Bundle SimCity with Select A8 and A10 APUs

btarunr · Apr 5, 2013

AMD's "Never Settle" bundles may be selling the company's discrete GPU lineup, but it's not leaving its APU lineup lying down. Starting next week, and running up to the end of Q3 2013, AMD will be bundling select A8 and A10 series desktop APUs with Origin-redeemable codes for SimCity, the season's hottest strategy game. Among the eligible models are A10-5800K, A10-5700, A8-5600K, and A8-5500. The freebie bears a staggering US $60 market value, tied with processors starting at $80, leading up to $130. In its marketing slide, AMD pointed out how the Radeon HD 7000D series graphics cores of these APUs outperform similarly priced Intel Core i3 chips by over 80 percent, in the game.

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razaron · Apr 5, 2013

btarunr said:
SimCity, the season's hottest strategy game.

With all the flaming, I'm sure it is.

LAN_deRf_HA · Apr 5, 2013

They probably got it at a bargain. Relatively.

FordGT90Concept · Apr 5, 2013

Yeah, it's pretty obvious EA's goal for SimCity is DLCs, lots of them. They'll accept a loss on the base game to turn a profit on future sales.

NeoXF · Apr 5, 2013

The game is utter trash, but it's still value I guess... plus it opens up another gate to these neat bundles... like OCZ's SSD ones, or AMD older (video card only untill now) Never Settle bonanza.

jihadjoe · Apr 5, 2013

Oh great, free DRM!

NC37 · Apr 5, 2013

So I guess SimCity replaced Nexuiz as the unloadable title AMD gets tossed to sell with their goods. Oh well...I'm sure it will work. There is always a few people who haven't been warned or heard of the horror that is SimCity and Origin.

Solidstate89 · Apr 5, 2013

I expect sales of APUs to drop dramatically due to this. :roll:

Disparia · Apr 5, 2013

Nice. This is how I'll get Simcity.

repman244 · Apr 5, 2013

EA should actually give some money to AMD for including it.

Frick · Apr 5, 2013

NC37 said:
So I guess SimCity replaced Nexuiz as the unloadable title AMD gets tossed to sell with their goods. Oh well...I'm sure it will work. There is always a few people who haven't been warned or heard of the horror that is SimCity and Origin.

It seems its largely fixed now.

lilhasselhoffer · Apr 5, 2013

I may be wrong, but isn't Starcraft a real time strategy game? If that's true then "hottest strategy game" can only mean it can straight from the fiery bowels of the devil.

Let's assume that EA's marketing is being honest. Sim City is not, in fact, a strategy game and it is an MMO because of the required online components. Technically then, Sim City is a hot game. It's easy to say that when there is no competition relating to new games yet released this year.

I'm bitter. AMD is foolish for picking up Sim City, because they are linking their name with a PR nightmare. If you want to move units then try linking your hardware to games people actually enjoy hmm....bioshock...hmmm. Linking a decent piece of hardware to a rather despised game is...only viable as a course of action if your sales team has been hiding under a rock for the last two months.

Solidstate89 · Apr 5, 2013

Frick said:
It seems its largely fixed now.

It's not. The connections issues might be "largely fixed" but the game itself is simply broken.

Prima.Vera · Apr 5, 2013

Sim City 2013. What a garbage. Cannot save when you want, cannot connect cities borders, cannot create map bigger than 2x2Km...What a waste...

Rebel333 · Apr 5, 2013

Nvidia and intel are so crap

KainXS · Apr 5, 2013

EA - Free games if you buy this card
You- Nice,(buys card)
(2 hours later)
(Start playing game)
(1 hour later)
Game-You want DLC with that
(1 hour later)
Game-You want DLC with that
(1 hour later)
Game-You want DLC with that
(1 hour later)
Game-You need this DLC for that
(1 hour later)
You-Fuck it

why rebel why, why can't i be a storm trooper right now

newtekie1 · Apr 5, 2013

Man, I'm rather annoyed that I just bought my A8-5600K. I'm not buying SimCity due to the craptastic always on DRM, but I'd like to play it if I could have gotten a free copy.

GSquadron · Apr 5, 2013

This game is 100% not worth it.
They should give you money for getting it

Roph · Apr 5, 2013

Much rather see the new Age Of Empires 2 remake bundled.

ironwolf · Apr 5, 2013

Oh baby! I got a client fixing to replace ~15 machines with A10-5800K boxes that I will be building. Looks like I'm gonna be swimming in SimCity codes, sounds like a nice little bit of side $$$ to be had, going into my build-me-a-new-rig fund. :pimp:

suraswami · Apr 5, 2013

Roph said:
Much rather see the new Age Of Empires 2 remake bundled.

I was going to say that but saw ur post, yeah any day AOE is fun.

Ikaruga · Apr 6, 2013

Very nice move from AMD. Bundling AAA titles with hardware is a good tradition, hope they will stick with it :toast:

Rowsol · Apr 6, 2013

jihadjoe said:
Oh great, free DRM!

I laughed.

Rebel333 said:
Nvidia and intel are so crap

I got a warning for a post very similar to this.

Prima.Vera · Apr 7, 2013

Ikaruga said:
Very nice move from AMD. Bundling AAA titles with hardware is a good tradition, hope they will stick with it

Sim City 2013 is NOT an AAA title. Not anymore anyways...

Thefumigator · Apr 7, 2013

I played all simcity games I can remember since the first one in the 90s, and I loved each and everyone, what makes this one so bad?

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