WYP
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AMD's got big plans for GPUOpen - New content is coming every day next week
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NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Pretty stupid. This should be a professional announcement given to developers in it's entirety.
They shouldn't be wasting development time. Just using this as an opportunity to promote themselves. They already have the documentation finished, just release it to them.
They shouldn't be wasting development time. Just using this as an opportunity to promote themselves. They already have the documentation finished, just release it to them.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Pretty cool, Will be interesting to see what they show us.
WYP
News Guru
When most large games can take years to develop, I don't think staggering announcements across a week will matter in the grand scheme of things.
AMD doesn't have the same clout as Nvidia, so using this to "promote themselves" is a good strategy. Every good technology that AMD announces will get its time in the spotlight and developers will get more opportunities to see that these features exist.
If AMD released this with no fanfare, my guess is that barely anyone would look into it. Some will see the huge information dump and think "when will I have time to read all that". Pre-announce it, and people can set time aside. Stagger the release, and people can digest the information in bite-sized chunks.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Well if you're a dev using these technologies you really are going to be reading the entire relevant documentation that you will be using. Bite sized chunks don't really matter. As a Software Engineer you are CONSTANTLY reading stuff. It's just part of the job, at least from my knowledge and field of study.
This is mostly just for consumers and it's nice because it's something to look forward to everyday when all we are doing is staying at home playing games. I just think if I was a dev and I had to wait a week to figure out features coming I'd be pretty annoyed as it's wasting my time.
Now for all I know AMD could have handed out the documentation or provided the resources for devs already and this is just for consumers and to get AMDs name out there. Then my opinion doesn't matter at that point
This is mostly just for consumers and it's nice because it's something to look forward to everyday when all we are doing is staying at home playing games. I just think if I was a dev and I had to wait a week to figure out features coming I'd be pretty annoyed as it's wasting my time.
Now for all I know AMD could have handed out the documentation or provided the resources for devs already and this is just for consumers and to get AMDs name out there. Then my opinion doesn't matter at that point
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