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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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MnemnocH said:
They dont like it because Lara's boobs is smaller in the newest TR.
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Jokes aside, that game left my jaw on the floor. The visuals were astoundingly spectacular. That didn't ease the pain for Legacy of Kain: Dead Sun though.

I will personally kill whoever scratched it in favor of that blasphemous f2p. You heard me, SE, I WILL KILL YOU ALL! *rages*

 
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My EC purchases:

Inversion + Enslaved

MP3 + LA Noire

Thief in the Shadows pack

GTA Trilogy

Crysis 3

Crysis Maximum Edition

Syndicate/Saboteur

I already had so many of titles on the list, so I still have 5 coupons left. Kind of bummed about that. Was hoping there'd be a Steam sale hitting today for something on the EC list, but alas, no luck there. 

 
MnemnocH said:
They dont like it because Lara's boobs is smaller in the newest TR.
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How about they don't like it because it's filled with shitty QTEs and because another unique franchise was made into a shooter by greedy publishers? There are no good 3d platformers anymore, first PoP went to shit and now TR became a TPShooter.

 
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I picked up the LoK pack, but now I have to track down the original Blood Omen.  Or should I just forget it and start with Soul Reaver?

 
encendido5 said:
I picked up the LoK pack, but now I have to track down the original Blood Omen. Or should I just forget it and start with Soul Reaver?
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Start anyway, that's how I got introduced to the series. You can always pick it up later on, as a prequel. And you'll further understand the series' lesson that free will is an illusion.

 
Hi guys,

I'm feeling really under the weather today and haven't even had a chance to catch up from any of the conversations that occurred after I posted last. I'm not going to have the opportunity to read many of those conversations, so if you could ask any questions that were super important, can you let me know?

Cheers,

Tony

 
Wasn't sure I was going to spend all of my coupons, but Tony came through with something at the end:

Thief In The Shadows pack

Legacy Of Kain collection

inversion/Enslaved pack

So, that's basically 8 games for less than a $1 a piece.

 
Amazon DVG Deals said:
Hi guys,

I'm feeling really under the weather today and haven't even had a chance to catch up from any of the conversations that occurred after I posted last. I'm not going to have the opportunity to read many of those conversations, so if you could ask any questions that were super important, can you let me know?

Cheers,

Tony
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That we love you. No, seriously, we do, and so do our wallets.

 
encendido5 said:
I picked up the LoK pack, but now I have to track down the original Blood Omen. Or should I just forget it and start with Soul Reaver?
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Starting with Soul Reaver might ruin your experience of the original. There was a big improvement in graphics between 1996 and 1999.

 
Endrju said:
How about they don't like it because it's filled with shitty QTEs and because another unique franchise was made into a shooter by greedy publishers? There are no good 3d platformers anymore, first PoP went to shit and now TR became a TPShooter.
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Sorry, I forgot the yellow font.

I played alot of games with shitty QTE but for me, TR 2013 is not one of them. I also dont take it seriously if a sequel is not the same as the orignals. I happen to like GW2, Hitman Abs, TR2013, Civ5. As long as I enjoy them, I try not to compare. But that's just me and usually I'm in the minority.
 
Amazon DVG Deals said:
Hi guys,

I'm feeling really under the weather today and haven't even had a chance to catch up from any of the conversations that occurred after I posted last. I'm not going to have the opportunity to read many of those conversations, so if you could ask any questions that were super important, can you let me know?

Cheers,

Tony
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Tony,

Is it confirmed that there's no additional last-minute deals coming today at this point? Nothing hanging out there for a possible last-minute EC?

 
gigaislam said:
once again I am not having a problem and I always buy from amazon and never had an issue so it is not about me and ,I understand your point but what if someone bought a lot of games during a visit to the states?
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You can't legitimately buy digital stuff from Amazon US whilst on holiday because it's not based on your location - you have to use a US payment address. Who applies for a credit card at their holiday location? So that scenario won't occur.

 
MnemnocH said:
Sorry, I forgot the yellow font.

I played alot of games with shitty QTE but for me, TR 2013 is not one of them. I also dont take it seriously if a sequel is not the same as the orignals. I happen to like GW2, Hitman Abs, TR2013, Civ5. As long as I enjoy them, I try not to compare. But that's just me and usually I'm in the minority.
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Usually I also don't take it seriously. I liked Civ V a lot. But I love the 3d platformer/action-adventure genre and I have nothing to play. Darksiders also seems to be gone.

 
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Endrju said:
Usually I also don't take it seriously. I liked Civ V a lot. But I love the 3d platformer/action-adventure genre and I have nothing to play. Darksiders also seems to be gone.
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yeah, I can see why is that a problem. The platformer in GW2 is awesome if you have that game. Other than that, all I saw are indie 2d/retro platformers.
 
asheskitty said:
Well it's not so much fake CAG as much as no one in the hardcore CAG clique will be able to talk to you. You'll have the shame of having to eat lunch alone or with the posers. It's not a pretty thing...


...or you could just say fuck it and I'll garrote whomever buy whatever I please.
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*cough* Assetto Corsa *cough*

:)
 
Amazon DVG Deals said:
Hi guys,

I'm feeling really under the weather today and haven't even had a chance to catch up from any of the conversations that occurred after I posted last. I'm not going to have the opportunity to read many of those conversations, so if you could ask any questions that were super important, can you let me know?

Cheers,

Tony
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Enslaved link on the DVG landing page is bad. Some discussion over the Dark Souls extension.

targetbsp said:
You can't legitimately buy digital stuff from Amazon US whilst on holiday because it's not based on your location - you have to use a US payment address. Who applies for a credit card at their holiday location? So that scenario won't occur.
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Cut-purses

Naked Snake Eyes said:
You outta also put in big letters that Inversion is region locked to NCSA.
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Region locked to NASCAR???

 
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Amazon DVG Deals said:
Hi guys,

I'm feeling really under the weather today and haven't even had a chance to catch up from any of the conversations that occurred after I posted last. I'm not going to have the opportunity to read many of those conversations, so if you could ask any questions that were super important, can you let me know?

Cheers,

Tony
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What happened with the Kingdoms of Amalur price match? But more importantly, GET WELL SOON.

 
Too Damn High said:
Amazon is giving away a bunch of premium travel and weather Android apps today. Useful to the CAG who occasionally leaves the house.
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Also, today's Free App of the Day is Star Command. Which I got from Humble but haven't played yet. Depending on your opinion, it may or may not be a janky clone of FTL for mobile.
EDIT: Some people may be angry about an overpromised, underdelivered kickstarter, but for free, who cares?



Too Damn High said:
What happened with the Kingdoms of Amalur price match? But more importantly, GET WELL SOON.
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The pricematch is on the Instant Access Version.
 
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[quote name="Amazon DVG Deals" post="11489190" timestamp="1391192826"]Hi guys,

I'm feeling really under the weather today and haven't even had a chance to catch up from any of the conversations that occurred after I posted last. I'm not going to have the opportunity to read many of those conversations, so if you could ask any questions that were super important, can you let me know?

Cheers,
Tony[/quote]You haven't missed much. Feel better!
 
Evrain said:
Start anyway, that's how I got introduced to the series. You can always pick it up later on, as a prequel. And you'll further understand the series' lesson that free will is an illusion.
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Endrju said:
Starting with Soul Reaver might ruin your experience of the original. There was a big improvement in graphics between 1996 and 1999.
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Thanks guys. I have enough to play at the moment that I don't have to play it right away, so in the meantime, I can look for a cheap copy for the PS1 or something.

 
That price for Tomb Raider is sick. Even if you miss the style of the original games, if you have the slightest bit of interest in adventure shooters you should definitely get it. While I wouldn't say it was the best game of 2013, it was one of the most fun to play.

The Enslaved deal is also nice. 

 
Bruticis said:
Being a regular on an anonymous internet forum doesn't make one any less random. "This is what I bought guys, look at me, aren't I cool?" posts are just silly and any sane person is going to scroll right past them. Do you live vicariously through other peoples Amazon purchases?
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Regulars in this thread have had lots of conversations on and off this forum. Sometimes we game together. It's something people do, you know, with other people. Reducing real people to 1s and 0s is a choice.

Being anonymous doesn't make you less of a person. Everyone has a personality that they've exhibited through their writing. Now so do you.

 
anyone who has an editor choice coupon would you be willing me to buy enslaved and I will paypal you the fees. have paypal balance I want to get rid of

 
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