Yep, small technical team, AMD gave them technical support so the game includes... XeSS, on wait, that doesn't go with your story.
Nvidia failed to give them support for DLSS, as they were not using just the barebones implementation, they needed help and didn't get it.
AMD helped them with performance tuning on FSR2.0 that works on... all cards, and XeSS from intel that... works on All cards...
“Both technologies (Intel XeSS and AMD FSR 2.0) will be supported in the game. And specific thanks to AMD, who very much provided us with great technical and resource support to make sure FSR 2 performs extremely well in Boundary. AMD has been a wonderful partner these last few months.”
Yes, the problem with cultist is they will believe whatever they want despite evidence contrary.
AMD is not some hero, they are struggling to compete and their only option is opensource and mindshare winning.
Intel is not some hero, they are pretty controlling but they too are pushing OneAPI and XeSS as open standards.
That said, AMD asking for priority when paying and offering support is standard, on smaller titles this will have a negative impact on the consumers of lack of DLSS as they don't have extra resources to do things they are not helped with.
DLSS, FSR and XeSS are fairly easy to implement at this stage... but that does not make them bug free at enablement. Testing man hours and performance tuning is still required.
On the other hand, it is likely that choosing to do something against the wishes of a partner will have negative effects on the partnership. Unless there is a contract of how many hours of support AMD is giving a dev, those might dwindle when they add competing technologies.
Assimilator, like ffs, how young are you, Nvidia's entire history they literally are the bad guys. I find it annoying they have the best hardware and software ecosystem because Jenson really lacks a moral compass. When 3dfx was beating them, they published hit pieces, drove them into the ground and bought the ip from the wreckage. Their origin story is literally running a competitor into the ground and taking SLI from them.
from gameworks, IQ degradation for benchmark wins (GTX200-300), bumpgate bad transition to leadfree solders cause gpus to desolder, lately their greed and pricing has just been nutty, and now they are openly asking to meet your customers, having been a partner in the past... don't do it, they will steal them.