AMD Backpedals on Quake Champions Promo Link with Radeon 17.4.4 Drivers

[uuuaaaaaa]

Did i start this? Dont care. Quake is awesome.

Right on!

 

[MrGenius]

Whiney...little...bitches.

My only complaint is where's my confirmation email with my goddamn key?!

 

[xorbe]

Seems like screenshot has blatant placement of "MemTest64" icon ;-)

 

[thesmokingman]

Burn AMD Burninate! How dare you put a shortcut on my desktop!

 

[xkm1948]

Whiney...little...bitches.

My only complaint is where's my confirmation email with my goddamn key?!

I never got it.

 

[Fluffmeister]

At the end of the day, all credit to AMD users for being whiney...little...bitches.

 

[Fouquin]

People need to find better things to do with their time...

Being offended is a full time job.

 

[AsRock]

People need to GET A LIFE!...

 

[blobster21]

The usual storm in a cup of tea.

Meanwhile, in Syria, 10000's of people are murdered by a vicious dictator and nobody gives a flying f***....

The world

 

[Cvaras]

next step, amd unclude viruses in their drivers

 

[m1dg3t]

The usual storm in a cup of tea.

Meanwhile, in Syria, 10000's of people are murdered by a vicious dictator and nobody gives a flying f***....

The world

We're to buisy with all the winning we've been doing to give a shit.

 

[Super XP]

A desktop shortcut one can delete in half a second? OH MY GOD, WORLD HAS ENDED!!!!!111111 Granted, such practices are generally not welcome, but c'mon, "massive uproar"? Seriously?

Exactly.
Big Freaking Deal. lol

 

[OneCool]

This thread is hilarious!!

 

[john_]

This caused major uproar in social media, with some comments calling it "adware" and AMD losing the moral high ground over NVIDIA, which marketed games through its GeForce Experience app.

All these years of Nvidia locking features, punishing customers for having AMD hardware in their PCs, asking for personal data to use GeForce Experience, pushing locked libraries in the game development, influencing developers to remove support for competitor's features, like DX101.1, or tessellate a huge non visible ocean, or even selling hardware with false specs, all those where totally matched by a desktop shortcut. AMD lost it's moral high ground to Nvidia because of a desktop shortcut.

Nice. TechPowerUp doesn't seems to have changed this last year. Other sites did change their attitude and they are more balanced when posting articles about AMD. But TechPowerUp continues to scream at AMD, while whispering gently to Intel or Nvidia.

 

[john_]

OFF TOPIC

Spoiler

The usual storm in a cup of tea.

Meanwhile, in Syria, 10000's of people are murdered by a vicious dictator and nobody gives a flying f***....

The world

Stop watching only CNN. Assad is killing, the rebels are killing, the US bombs are killing(by mistake off course), Russian bombs are killing and all those do bloody business as usual. Assad doesn't care if innocents would die, he only cares to stay in power. Rebels don't care if they will kill innocents, because they care in getting to power. Russia doesn't care if innocents will die, as long as it will manage to keep it's bases and Syria as an allied. US don't care if innocents will die, as long as Assad is removed and they get access to oil roads and huge, extremely huge contracts for rebuilding Syria, remove Syria from Russian's influence and destabilize Europe with all those millions of refugees.

I see how well peace and prosperity is doing in Iraq.

 

[64K]

Nice. TechPowerUp doesn't seems to have changed this last year. Other sites did change their attitude and they are more balanced when posting articles about AMD. But TechPowerUp continues to scream at AMD, while whispering gently to Intel or Nvidia.

John, I think you feel this way because you don't notice when Nvidia gets called out for the shitty things they sometimes do by the editors and owner of this site. Remember the 970? W1zzard flat out said that Nvidia lied to us and they lied to you. Go back through the news pages here and you will see articles that do call Nvidia out.

 

[john_]

John, I think you feel this way because you don't notice when Nvidia gets called out for the shitty things they sometimes do by the editors and owner of this site. Remember the 970? W1zzard flat out said that Nvidia lied to us and they lied to you. Go back through the news pages here and you will see articles that do call Nvidia out.

Come on. A shortcut makes AMD and Nvidia even? Leally? A shortcut? Is this part of the news? AMD is on par with Nvidia now on morality? What is the news here. The shortcut or that AMD is on par with Nvidia in morality now?

Let's see the newsposter's perspective about GeForce Experience's dial home necessity

NVIDIA GeForce Experience Gets UI Update, Won't Work Without Login | techPowerUp

NVIDIA uses this account to store your game settings and other preferences on the cloud, so they're portable between all your devices, and could be useful if you're a PC enthusiast that frequently changes hardware. On the flip-side, though, GeForce Experience becomes another app that dials home each time you start your PC, impacting start-up speed.

No uproar here. First we explain why it is necessary what are the advantages, then we just point to the fact that GFE dials home. But we don't talk about uproars, people on the streets protesting, others threatening to suicide, and we definitely don't give GFE a bad name. No, it's trying to make your preferences portable you silly. It's just another app. Nothing changed, nothing out of the ordinary. And of course, we don't talk about morality here, either.

AMD's stupidity here will be a problem the next time they will do it. But it is funny that all those ads while installing drivers are not a problem, but a shortcut is, because as we all know, a shortcut in the desktop automatically starts a download process and automatically removes from out bank account the cost of that game/application that the shortcut represents.

Now tell me again that you don't see two different standards used here.