No, unfortunately it seems you're not wrong at all. People that bought hardware from the “exclusive partner of Starfield” are indeed the only ones that right now do not have access to preload on Steam through redeemable keys. I bought a 6800 XT and am waiting on a premium key as well. GMG, CDKeys and Instant Gaming have all distributed their keys, and purchasers are either downloading or have downloaded the game.
If resellers all have keys, I can’t imagine a reason as to why AMD would not have keys, which means they’re seemingly just sitting on them for… reasons? Not good, especially if you’re some poor soul that lives in the sticks and needs a day or two to download it, or if you’re someone that’s taken time off of work to relax and enjoy the day but will now need to download it instead of playing.
No doubt it was all in the terms when I bought the card, I should have checked and that’s on me. But seeing everyone else get their codes and preload when they’ve bought discounted copies of the game from key resellers, while buyers of official partner hardware are being forced to wait is, as you say, not cool.
The only other option is to buy the game on Steam, download it, refund and then wait for the code from AMD, but not everyone has money to throw around so not ideal.
AMD also hasn’t released any updated drivers, not a major thing and I’d like to think they’ll be out tomorrow, but NVIDIA had theirs out last week. It all seems a bit lacklustre to be honest.
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