This Game is Free

[MacArthur]

If you buy crappy Intel CPUs from January 22 till March 31, that lag behind Ryzen.

What a Devious way to produce fake sale numbers for journalists :D

It also comes with Civilization 6 for free. So people who want Civilization will buy the CPU as upgrade and get Shadows game. They will redeem it and then journalists will say that million people bought this DEI flop

[justdrop]

Saturday morning mean tinfoil hats go on?

[HiRed_ThuG]

Originally posted by MacArthur:

If you buy crappy Intel CPUs from January 22 till March 31, that lag behind Ryzen.

What a Devious way to produce fake sale numbers for journalists :D

It also comes with Civilization 6 for free. So people who want Civilization will buy the CPU as upgrade and get Shadows game. They will redeem it and then journalists will say that million people bought this DEI flop

The sales numbers will likely come from the consoles so that doesn't matter much. Who buys Intel these days anyways?

[Maschendraht]

Originally posted by MacArthur:

If you buy crappy Intel CPUs from January 22 till March 31, that lag behind Ryzen.

What a Devious way to produce fake sale numbers for journalists :D

It also comes with Civilization 6 for free. So people who want Civilization will buy the CPU as upgrade and get Shadows game. They will redeem it and then journalists will say that million people bought this DEI flop

So you think millions and millions of people will buy specific CPUs from specific sellers during this specific time period to the point it will inflate sales numbers? Nah, that doesn't make sense.

BTW I got my copy of The Witcher 3 for free with my old GTX 970 back then. I guess uess the numbers of Witcher 3 are also inflated and the game actually failed.

[space]

how is it free if you gotta buy a $500-1000 cpu for it?

[justdrop]

Originally posted by space:

how is it free if you gotta buy a $500-1000 cpu for it?

Don't give them credit for thinking about things they post in the future.

[Huckzter]

Dear God, please let Brain rain.

[Dev]

Don’t forget another major source of these redemptions on PC comes from laptop gamers that buy new gaming laptops packaged with a Intel CPU. I curse the day I ever went with Intel CPUs back in 13th gen (13900K & 13900HX owner here). I finally just had my 13900K replaced but I’m certain it’s a refurbished model or something and still runs subpar.

[justdrop]

Imagine complaining about a CPU because you're bad at computers.