Although this does not apply to this specific promotion, just a heads up for those ordering from Amazon as someone who took advantage of Samsung's similar offering of Far Cry 4 (also through Ubisoft/Uplay) after purchasing an EVO 4 SSD:
1. Be sure that you are ordering from Amazon and not from a third party vendor, first and foremost. Due to supply issues many of the current models of the GTX 970 on Amazon are being sold by other parties that do not necessarily qualify for the promotion. You can find this information below the product details on Amazon under the specials and promotions tab, as well as eligibility and requirements.
2. You will NOT - I repeat - NOT receive any indication that your purchase contains the pick your path offering, and YES you will scratch your eyes out of insanity trying to find such a confirmation for your personal records because it does not exist, unfortunately, due to how Amazon's promotions work. If you order through a site like Newegg, you will see the promotion attached to your order at a value of $0.00 (or maybe $0.99, discounted to $0.00 at checkout).
*3. Eventually - and I mean
eventually you will receive an email with the promotion details, and I would suggest backing up that email because calling Amazon, at least in my case, got me a customer service rep who wanted to pass me off to an email address to contact their marketing and promotions department. If this does in fact happen to you, don't even bother because you will eventually get the code via email.
- In my case there was in extraordinarily, easy to miss font a several digit code that you have to enter under the promo code selection during checkout for your game through Uplay, Ubisoft's "Steam" if you will. The code will reduce the listed price of $59.99 to $0.00.
- You HAVE to enter the promo code or else you would actually be purchasing the given title for $59.99.
- After entering in and verifying that the code took, proceed with the usual purchase procedure, pay nothing, download and install your chosen game, and hopefully you picked the right path.
*As for the specific "Pick Your Path" promotion, yeah, I'm still waiting for my code and I ordered December 1st, so...
**4. For new Ubisoft Uplay users or those of us who simply never bother to use Uplay and have not opened or updated it in ages, the most recent version that I encountered earlier today at least will completely mute up your computer's audio while Uplay is running, and no, I am not joking or being facetious. It's a bug related to something with Ubisoft's not-so-brilliant voice chat, but I couldn't resolve it for the life of me because: Ubisoft. My advice is to not plan on downloading and installing your game when you actually want to use your computer's audio if you run into this because the only solution anyone posted that
I could locate seemed impossible to find or duplicate successfully in the Uplay options. I would recommend disabling Ubisoft's beta voice chat features anyway in case it does resolve the issue if you encounter muted audio while Uplay is running. I almost thought I was going insane until I saw this issue being reported online by others and simply exited the application, regaining my audio across two browsers and windows media player (it's literally
that bad).
Hope that helps anyone - these online promos can get really finnicky and twisty, what between the holiday rush, fine print, and rebate insanity one can deal with during the mad rush.
Cheers!