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Hey CAGS,

I’ve got some news I’m both excited and sad to share with you at the same time. I’ll be leaving the Digital Video Games team in Mid-March to join the marketing team for Amazon.com’s Loyalty and Rewards program, Amazon Coins. My boss and I have talked extensively about how to maintain and continue our presence here and across the other communities we’ve created in the past couple of years. To that end I’d like to introduce you to Josh, who take over monitoring, updating, and responding to this thread. Josh will be ramping up over the next couple of weeks, he  will be posting shortly to introduce himself.

Now that the “what’s going on” part of the message is out of the way I want to tell you all how much I love CAG and the posters here. This was the first community I joined when I started this job (anyone still remember that first thread?) and all of you have had a huge hand in shaping how we think about and execute Community Development and Management here at Amazon, which has in turn shaped my career these last two and a half years.

I started to write out a section calling out the regular posters and realized the list would be both overly long and incomplete at the same time. Instead I’d like to thank you all again, you all have my deep and sincere gratitude. I’ll still be around and my gaming accounts aren’t going anywhere so feel free to hit me up anytime you want to chat. I’ll probably still hang out in the thread too :).

Thanks again everyone, let me or Josh know if you have any questions!

The Indie Store has launched!
Amazon.com is launching a storefront dedicated to supporting and promoting PC/Mac/Web-based Indie Games. Our Digital Video Games team is a small group of passionate gamers and we’re all really excited to help Indie developers reach more customers quickly by providing a quick and simple process for bringing their games to market. Additionally we’ll be supporting the Indie Store with a ton of promotions, both at and after launch. Many of these promotions are designed to give the developer the opportunity to maximize their revenue. For example, Amazon is forfeiting all royalties from bundle sales and passing them along directly to the developer, we’ve also created an “Indie Spotlight” program to help customers learn more about the games and developers they love. We view the Indie developers as some of the most creative in the industry and we want to help them continue to create new and innovative experience for customers.

Why we are doing this:

  • Allow customers to discover an entirely new category of games on Amazon.com
  • Help developers reach new customers quickly. Our onboarding process is straightforward and we want to sell every Indie game available
  • We want to leverage our strengths to support and help the developers who are driving forward innovation and creativity in the games industry
General Information

Hi CAGs,
I'll be posting deals we're running on Digital Games (PC/Mac, Free to Play, Sony/Microsoft Points/Subs).

I'm also here to answer questions you might have, get you closer to the developers by hosting Q&As, setting up podcasts, live streaming gameplay etc. If I don't respond to a question you have in thread please send me a PM. These ping my email address and make it more likely that I will see your question and respond more quickly.

Cheers,
Tony


FYI. EA Games sold by Amazon will not activate on Steam.
F.A.Q.S.:

1. Does the game I'm buying from Amazon Activate on Steam/Origin/Uplay? What DRM does the game use?

There are two places to identify DRM on a digital video game detail page:

At the top of the page, below the title:

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In the "Product Description" section:

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2. Note on Electronic Arts Games - For the most part, EA games sold on Amazon do not activate on Steam. Most activate on Origin.

3. Note on DRM with limited activations:

Our Policy



4. Sometimes I'll do giveaways.

5. I work with developers and publishers to get fun (or at least what I think is fun) content to share with you all. Here are some examples:

a. Check out the Pax Gameplay videos here: Xcom: Enemy Unknown I played Xcom with Jake, the Creative Director for the game, a few months before the game came out Also, on this page, check out the Q&A, also a community driven event.

b. Check out the interview on this page: Borderlands 2 we did this interview at E3 with Randy Pitchford this year.

c. We've partnered with the ++GoodGames Podcast to feature many of the games we carry. They talk to the developers about the game development process, how the games are conceptualized and managed, all kinds of fun stuff. I'm working on putting together full link list and will update when I have it.

What else do we sell?

Xbox Live Points and Subscriptions:

1600 Microsoft Live Points
4000 Microsoft Live Points
12 Month XBOX Live Subscription
3 Month XBOX Live Subscription]
12 Month + 1 XBOX Live Subscription

PSN+ Subscriptions and PSN Points:

$20 PSN Points
$50 PSN Points
12 Month PSN+ Subscription
3 Month PSN+ Subscription

We also have a Free-2-Play store supported by our GameConnect technology. Gameconnect allows you to link your Amazon.com account with free-2-play and MMO accounts so that you can buy things like in game currency, premium game time/subscriptions, in game items, etc. on Amazon.com using your Amazon.com payment options and have this content delivered directly into your game.

5. Price Matching notes: Generally we do not match international retailers (GMG, Gamersgate, etc) or physical retailers (Best Buy, Newegg.com, etc.)
To check out the Free-2-Play games we offer you can visit our storefront here: Free-2-Play Store

 
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Cheaplikeafox 3.0 said:
Can we get Bohemia to add the Day-Z Standalone to Amazon and put it for $7.50 pre-coupon?
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Lol

That game has sold so well, I totally would understand from a business perspective if they wouldn't put that game on sale for a looooong time.

Speaking of, from some strange urge, i reinstalled warZ and once again cringed at the single pixel textures, and terrible looking game overall, not to mention terrible mechanics. The fact that quite a few people play it is a mark of shame on the games industry. The level people will stoop to, playing some games...

 
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r333k0 said:
Lol

That game has sold so well, I totally would understand from a business perspective if they wouldn't put that game on sale for a looooong time.

Speaking of, from some strange urge, i reinstalled warZ and once again cringed at the single pixel textures, and terrible looking game overall. The fact that quite a few people play it is a mark of shame on the games industry. The level people will stoop to, playing some games...
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Hey now, no need to make it personal.

 
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How do you know it doesn't bother the fish?
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Bruticis said:
I see the thread went pure stupid again, must be something in the air. 20 likes for Tony's post full of rehash crap that's been on sale 74.7 times already across a billion different websites (yes, I counted). THANK GOODNESS a few of those deals are 20 cents cheaper than the all time low cause that saved the EC sale! Now bring on that Magicka bundle, shit just got real.
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Yes.

Come on man :(. Posts like this are literally why fewer questions get answered.

All prices are pre-coupon:

1/24-1/31:

Tomb Raider - $8.99

Thief Bundle (Thief Gold, Thief II: The Metal Age, Thief Deadly Shadows) - $7.49

Legacy of Kain Bundle - $7.49

Final Fantasy XIV: $14.99

Final Fantasy XIV Collector's: $17.99

Hitman Taking Care of Business Pack (Hitman, Blood Money, Silent Assassin, Absolution Professional Edition) - $12.99

Cheers,

Tony
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damn, if I were a tree, I'd be covered in maple syrup right now.

in for the Thief pack, my patience rewarded finally.

forthenguyen said:
The tears man... one of the best shows I've watched.
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how the hell did your post get in here?

spoderman said:
Are you suggesting we should kill another publisher?
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on it :D

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Amazon DVG Deals said:
Hey,

This is getting hostile (not directed at you) and I apologize for that, it should not. I wasn't trying to start an argument but rather address your comments.

First, we need to stop with the name calling guys, in any fashion, I appreciate the thought behind the posts but we gotta keep things civil.

Darkzero, again apologies for not addressing that sooner, I was posting on the way out of work.

Lastly, and addressing the content of your post. My point wasn't that people should look at the current deals and begin singing the praises of our deals (that is never my intention) :) but rather to address your comments around "price jacking". I've made it clear over the past couple of weeks that I wanted publisher participation to be stronger, and made no secret of the fact that this year has been significantly less bombastic than last year. The fact remains that the Square Enix deals are lowest in channel for much of the content, which is what I find hard to define as price jacking.

Hope this helps address and close out the conversation. I think everyone has had an opportunity to chime in, but if you'd like to discuss further with me I'd ask that you do so via PM so we don't keep stirring an emotional pot in thread.

Thanks guys!

Cheers,

Tony
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No harm here, I don't like things getting personal and prefer to leave that stuff out of it is all; my main way of dealing with it is sarcastically pointing it out as that works more often than not. I'm not always the clearest so I also often end up repeating or rephrasing my arguments, hoping that it'll be understood. Once you got into price jacking and what it meant I figured a wrong turn got taken somewhere as the focus on that term wasn't the goal but the result being it's a minor bump off the historical low. Not sure what better term works for that, price jacking seemed like the right one but maybe it's a difference of definitions. Historical lowest, yes. Impressive, not at all as it's a low decrease. Accurate to offerings in previous years (aka, "expectations"), also not at all. Combined both make the coupon's value shrink since it's really just "oh boy, the value of this thing is $1-1.50" as opposed to previous years' value being $2.50-5 (or as seen with Rockstar and Deep Silver for something this year) Like you've said, there ain't much that can be done outside of a hail mary being thrown at 'em for the last few days of stuff NOT here - Sleeping Dogs and the FF games most notably - so it's more of pointing out that I think it's weak and explaining why I think it's weak. Cannot stress enough that it's BS that Sleeping Dogs has been free on PS+, is currently free on XBLA Gold, was on sale earlier in the week on GMG, yet they can't come up with a sale on the game or its DLC for PC for Amazon in January. Though judging by the rest of their stuff they'd bill it as $20 to barely get under the $16 it was there for the collection. Hell, could even see them do the game price as the same ($8) as it'd fit the theme but there's so much DLC on that thing it makes sense to get the whole thing instead, especially as if all I wanted was the base game I could load up either console and download it for free.

To be clear here:

Any issue I have is most likely with Square for offering these minor price differences of their best price. I figure you've busted your ass as usual and did what you could and this is what they gave you. Some are happy, I'm not. I'm definitely not gonna be the only one either, just the first to point out the argument from all angles. There isn't really much need to go to PM for this, it's a giant case of nothing can be done. Just also incredibly lame that this is the best that could be gotten.

 
Honestly, it amazes me that Tony still even participates in this thread. We aren't the target market. We don't buy full price games, we know all the sales from all over the world, and we only want the best possible deals. We aren't a profitable group, not to mention aren't really all that big in terms of users either. Tony said it himself, while people were whining here, he was seeing more sales than most other days. Yes, in the past there have been killer bundles and EC deals that we all jumped on, but he could (and does) post them just as easily elsewhere. Clearly he's expressed enjoyment for the community, but we see one sale fall a little flat and the pitchforks are everywhere. I hope for Tony's own sanity that he gets nice bonuses and just uses "CAG time" as a cover for porn surfing or something, because this place hardly seems worth his time.

 
lomaxgnome said:
Honestly, it amazes me that Tony still even participates in this thread. We aren't the target market. We don't buy full price games, we know all the sales from all over the world, and we only want the best possible deals. We aren't a profitable group, not to mention aren't really all that big in terms of users either. Tony said it himself, while people were whining here, he was seeing more sales than most other days. Yes, in the past there have been killer bundles and EC deals that we all jumped on, but he could (and does) post them just as easily elsewhere. Clearly he's expressed enjoyment for the community, but we see one sale fall a little flat and the pitchforks are everywhere. I hope for Tony's own sanity that he gets nice bonuses and just uses "CAG time" as a cover for porn surfing or something, because this place hardly seems worth his time.
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He's also mentioned that when we say a deal is good, he know's it's GOOD. Otherwise, I mostly agree with your sentiment.

 
lomaxgnome said:
Honestly, it amazes me that Tony still even participates in this thread. We aren't the target market. We don't buy full price games, we know all the sales from all over the world, and we only want the best possible deals. We aren't a profitable group, not to mention aren't really all that big in terms of users either. Tony said it himself, while people were whining here, he was seeing more sales than most other days. Yes, in the past there have been killer bundles and EC deals that we all jumped on, but he could (and does) post them just as easily elsewhere. Clearly he's expressed enjoyment for the community, but we see one sale fall a little flat and the pitchforks are everywhere. I hope for Tony's own sanity that he gets nice bonuses and just uses "CAG time" as a cover for porn surfing or something, because this place hardly seems worth his time.
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couldn't of said it better.👏
 
lomaxgnome said:
Honestly, it amazes me that Tony still even participates in this thread. We aren't the target market. We don't buy full price games, we know all the sales from all over the world, and we only want the best possible deals. We aren't a profitable group, not to mention aren't really all that big in terms of users either. Tony said it himself, while people were whining here, he was seeing more sales than most other days. Yes, in the past there have been killer bundles and EC deals that we all jumped on, but he could (and does) post them just as easily elsewhere. Clearly he's expressed enjoyment for the community, but we see one sale fall a little flat and the pitchforks are everywhere. I hope for Tony's own sanity that he gets nice bonuses and just uses "CAG time" as a cover for porn surfing or something, because this place hardly seems worth his time.
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That's some deep stuff right there. We clearly are his market or he wouldn't be here. Are you this incredibly naive at everything in life or just the internet?

 
lomaxgnome said:
Honestly, it amazes me that Tony still even participates in this thread. We aren't the target market. We don't buy full price games, we know all the sales from all over the world, and we only want the best possible deals. We aren't a profitable group, not to mention aren't really all that big in terms of users either. Tony said it himself, while people were whining here, he was seeing more sales than most other days. Yes, in the past there have been killer bundles and EC deals that we all jumped on, but he could (and does) post them just as easily elsewhere. Clearly he's expressed enjoyment for the community, but we see one sale fall a little flat and the pitchforks are everywhere. I hope for Tony's own sanity that he gets nice bonuses and just uses "CAG time" as a cover for porn surfing or something, because this place hardly seems worth his time.
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Of course we aren't profitable! We are less than 200 "cheap ass" gamers that follow this thread and post often "we want great games for 1 cent".

 
I would also like to stand up for those borderline CAGs who don't wait for 75% or less plus $5 or less plus bundle or GTFO.  I'm sure there's plenty of CAG who appreciate the deals even when they aren't at extreme CAG level.  Last year I paid like $15, $10, and even $25 for some individual games on Amazon based on Tony's deals and was happy for them.  This past year none of the games that came out were really that appealing or Amazon didn't carry them at the time.  

 
If the only issue was that this sale sucked, you'd probably not be graced with my presence right now. I usually just bitch to Mooby or MHC on steam about the horrible deals and move on (as it happens so often lately). I'm upset Tony ran a promo for an event with virtually zero planning as to what was going to on sale. That's shady in my eyes. The EC thing isn't new, hell it's his program. He should have been lining up deals for it LONG before Christmas not after the fact. Don't advertise an upcoming promo if you don't have anything planned for it at all and just try to wing as it as you go.

 
lomaxgnome said:
Honestly, it amazes me that Tony still even participates in this thread. We aren't the target market. We don't buy full price games, we know all the sales from all over the world, and we only want the best possible deals. We aren't a profitable group, not to mention aren't really all that big in terms of users either. Tony said it himself, while people were whining here, he was seeing more sales than most other days. Yes, in the past there have been killer bundles and EC deals that we all jumped on, but he could (and does) post them just as easily elsewhere. Clearly he's expressed enjoyment for the community, but we see one sale fall a little flat and the pitchforks are everywhere. I hope for Tony's own sanity that he gets nice bonuses and just uses "CAG time" as a cover for porn surfing or something, because this place hardly seems worth his time.
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lol whats profitable in pcdd?

in 2014 i spent $45 on amz pcdd-isnt that a nice monthly budget for just one channel?

do you really believe its relevant how many games I got?

as many say-- cag is both blessing and curse,because most of us buy games we would never buy

(not whining, I am actually happy with jan deals

just a simple free economics lesson)

 
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lomaxgnome said:
Honestly, it amazes me that Tony still even participates in this thread. We aren't the target market. We don't buy full price games, we know all the sales from all over the world, and we only want the best possible deals. We aren't a profitable group, not to mention aren't really all that big in terms of users either. Tony said it himself, while people were whining here, h was seeing more sales than most other days. Yes, in the past there have been killer bundles and EC deals that we all jumped on, but he could (and does) post them just as easily elsewhere. Clearly he's expressed enjoyment for the community, but we see one sale fall a little flat and the pitchforks are everywhere. I hope for Tony's own sanity that he gets nice bonuses and just uses "CAG time" as a cover for porn surfing or something, because this place hardly seems worth his time.
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lomaxgnome said:
Honestly, it amazes me that Tony still even participates in this thread. We aren't the target market. We don't buy full price games, we know all the sales from all over the world, and we only want the best possible deals. We aren't a profitable group, not to mention aren't really all that big in terms of users either. Tony said it himself, while people were whining here, he was seeing more sales than most other days. Yes, in the past there have been killer bundles and EC deals that we all jumped on, but he could (and does) post them just as easily elsewhere. Clearly he's expressed enjoyment for the community, but we see one sale fall a little flat and the pitchforks are everywhere. I hope for Tony's own sanity that he gets nice bonuses and just uses "CAG time" as a cover for porn surfing or something, because this place hardly seems worth his time.
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Hey guys! Want to make it clear that 1. I love this community, it.is my forst community ever (in my career) and I'm incredibly proud of the communoty we've built 2. You remain a huge part of the business and we recognize amd appreciate you for that. You guys are talked about in meetings and I brag about this place all the time. Also I consider cheapy a personal friend. 3. I'm Respon ding from mobile so sory for typos. Lastly I am making dinner woth the GF can we get back to happy posting?

 
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Come on man :(. Posts like this are literally why fewer questions get answered.
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Come on Tony, but questions like this get asked because of all the unrelated bullshit posts on this forum. It's pretty hard to keep up when you have to go through several pages. I myself have missed out on price match deals. By the way your post reply was #19339 this post is #19566 or so.

My tone for this posts= Two friends shooting the shit while sitting at a bar.

 
CarnivalMadness said:
Whenever someone says that, it always reminds me of Chapelle's Show skit of The Real World with Charlie Murphy.

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@Tony, some feedback for you (positive for a change):

Hi,. I just bought the GTA Trilogy even though I owned all but one of the games. I thought that $2 after coupon was a fantastic deal. What made it even better is that I was able to give the 2 other games to a Steam friend who had them wish listed. I wanted you to know that even though I still would have bought the Trilogy if it was a single redemption code (because $2 for a single game is still an amazing deal, even if it's an older one), that having individual codes for each game is a potential deciding factor for a purchase. Knowing that I can give those other games out instead of them "going to waste" would be a major positive to push me to buy a more expensive bundle. There is also the very real potential of the giftee buying a bundle themselves to pick up the games in the series/bundle they don't have, whether now or in the future.

I still have 24 EC credits left, but considering how I am one of those CAG's who's constantly up to date on Indie Bundles and sales everywhere, check every day for deals, and have a game library few can hope to match; I think you've done great. Looking at what I've bought so far, half the list are games I didn't have on the radar, and became exposed to, or familiar with through the EC list. (Grand Theft Auto Trilogy, XCOM: Declassified, How to Survive, Ace Patrol Pack). The other half are AAA games that I had wish listed and was waiting to hit my price point. I wanted you to know that having the option to give away extra keys in a bundle is a deciding factor in our purchasing, with the possibility of creating another customer out of it. Thanks again. -walk

P.S. The sparkle gif in the beginning to get your attention......too much? :)

 
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