MikeBGeyer
EVGA the FREE GAME ad is VERY misleading. I am very disappointed. What happened to what you see is what you get. Cause what I see is a FREE GAME.

MikeBGeyer
Actually EVGA is still endorsing the promotion which is the same a promoting it themselves.

MikeBGeyer

Scarlet-Tech

MikeBGeyer
Actually EVGA is still endorsing the promotion which is the same a promoting it themselves.

That's a joke right?

Nvidia, evga, Asus, MSI, gigabyte, zotac, Amazon, Newegg, ncix, or.. Just basically every daughter company and retailer that makes or sells Nvidia hardware is "running this promotion". Aka, Nvidia said "here is your codes for in game content, add that as a promotion" and the companies did so. Evga isn't endorsing anything, they are doing what they are told. You as a consumer are required to read the terms and conditions that are bluntly and plainly laid out for you.

I'm not going to argue ethics with you a free game and free in game content are completely different and it should be clearly labeled this way. Even if it's what EVGA has been told to do. Also MSI has it listed as in game content so they must have some leave way into advertisement. These ads are designed buy million dollar ad campaigns an lawyers in fine print which puts consumers at a huge disadvantage. They should be clearly labeled and easily understood without having to read the fine print or sales catch. Why not make it simple for once instead of misleading people into getting something they are not. Why can't the promo simply say FREE IN GAME CONTENT. How hard would that be. I loose all kinds of respect when a company has to play games in order to get people to buy there products. That all I have to say about the issue. You wont sway my beliefs so say what you will.

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trilegdog
Went through a bag of popcorn on those posts.  Good job!  

trilegdog
Went through a bag of popcorn on those posts.  Good job!  

scgt1
 
Side note and off topic... Anyone else not get email notifications of new posts or rarely get them even though subscribed?
This has been going on since the forum changed.

scgt1
I can't believe the pc "society" is succumbing to the FTP genre and companies are now stooping to give away content for said games vs giving a aaa title game like has been done for so many years. Such a shame. The sheep that pay into the FTP genre is what keeps allowing this type of game to replace real actual games of the past. The majority of these sheep don't sit down and realize what kind of cash they are dumping into these types of games.
 
It's only $7.99. It's only $10. It's only $3.99............ Until they have dumped $75 into one game that was FTP 3 months later. It's the micro transactions that add up big time over the span of playing the game. It's a never ending cycle that dumps money into the game developers pockets and shows other companies that this works. So it's just rinse and repeat all over again with a different developer/publisher combo or what ever releasing yet another FTP title riddled with micro transactions instead of a good solid full game.

Scarlet-Tech

scgt1
So Geforce gives a couple bucks worth of premium content for a FTP game. AMD gives BF1. Yep I feel shafted. Especially when people can spend $279 and get BF1. I along with plenty of other people have spent around $680 and we get the content for Paragon. LOL SMH

AMD and battlefield have been a team for years. Nvidia doesn't have much of a foot hold with Battlefield, so why would they give out someone else's "product"?

Scarlet-Tech

scgt1
So Geforce gives a couple bucks worth of premium content for a FTP game. AMD gives BF1. Yep I feel shafted. Especially when people can spend $279 and get BF1. I along with plenty of other people have spent around $680 and we get the content for Paragon. LOL SMH

AMD and battlefield have been a team for years. Nvidia doesn't have much of a foot hold with Battlefield, so why would they give out someone else's "product"?

scgt1
I don't believe I stated we should get BF1. My point was they are getting a "FULL" game as a thank you for spending a fraction of what we are here on the Nvidia side. We get chump changed into toss away content for a Free to Play game. Frankly it would have been nice for them to give out a AAA upcoming or at least within the past year (2016) Nvidia driven game. They used to offer a game card with a choice on it as another member mentioned that had an actual decent selection to it.
 
Instead they shove this pay to play/win content for a FTP game at us and say thanks for spending all that money on our product. Sure they don't even have to run promotions but to have so many in the past that have actually delivered something that would make most people happy they run this promotion instead. :-/