Nvidia Entering the Bundle Race with a F2P Package
Nvidia's answer to AMD's Never Settle Bundle features credit for Free-To-Play Games
Potentially to respond to AMD's well received Never Settle Bundle, Nvidia has unveiled it's own graphics card bundle that features credit for 3 prominent Free-To-Play titles, specifically Hawken, Planetside 2 and World of Tanks. Gamers who purchase a GTX 650 or 650 Ti will receive $75 of in game credit ($25 per title) and buying a GTX 660 or higher will provide $150 of in game credit ($50 per title).

Whilst Nvidia has certainly taken an interesting approach with this bundle, it remains to be seen whether it will effectively entice consumers to buy a GTX graphics card or whether the company will revert to including retail AAA titles in its next bundle. For more information and the offer's terms and conditions you can check out the relevant page on Nvidia's website.
The bundle seems ok, but I would like to be able to decide in which game I spend the cash, I don't play World of Tanks, and being able to use that money instead in Planetside 2 would be really good
That's just way too much work for the company. You get credit for all 3 anyway
They bundled them with p2w credit for the games, not just the games themselves.
Agreed
0 interest in their current bundle.
I imagine Nvidia did this because it was easier to negotiate than a bundle like AMD's. It probably doesn't cost Nvidia much if anything if the end user doesn't follow through on the offer, yet a gamer might look at it & think "Sure, I'll give those a try, so long as they're free."
oh this game has a item shop, pay to win
planet side 2, you can buy weapons, pay to win (no weapon is clearly better than the others, its a trade off nomatter what)
i cant speak to hawken as... is that game even out yet?
and world of tanks... never found it intresting.
hawken is out (open beta) , ask me though Mechwarrior online is better (also in open beta). Hwken is to much like fpser while MWO is more my style being an actual simultor game. neither of them are pay to win, both only charge for cosmetic items. in MWO they do sell hero mechs but they arn't pay to win. I blow the s-- out of hero mechs all the time with any one of my regular mechs I've bought with game currency.
Anyone know of some quasi-in-depth studies on free-to-play games and monetization of players? I mean, TF2 and items/hats seems to have been a success; but what about lesser-publicized games that were always F2P (vs. previously-paid and turned F2P)? Just curious.
So, nVidia, in the end of things is selling free stuff.
Jeez.