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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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Daykain said:
I am looking for a BL group invite too please. I am in my 2nd playthrough on both BL1 and BL2.

Also does anyone use Tapatalk (I am using the Android version) for this site and links have been broken for at least a month or so?
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sent me a friend invite using my steam profile link in my sig

edit: invite sent

 
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zenii said:
Follow-up on NFS:MW - I broke down and bought the DLC. After I entered my product code, I started up the game, didn't have to download or install anything, and it worked. Not sure if the problem asheskitty was having was patched, or I'm just lucky, but I haven't run into any technical issues with the game (other than crashing while loading Most Wanted races.. although playing in windowed mode fixed that) so overall I'm pretty satisfied with this game.
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I would probably buy it if I knew the DLC would work, I went to the official forums and there is a pages and months long thread about people not getting it to work. Really turns me away from buying. Maybe it's for the best, as the main reason I want to buy it is to avoid the frustration of constantly seeing stuff in the game that I can't drive/play. Buying for that reason would be giving into EA's evil plan.

 
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I got BL1 Goty more than 1 year ago, played it a little, then stopped due to work and stuff, but would like to get back to it. Can I get a invite, please? (profile in my signature).

And Tony, hope you are better!
 
Please send me an invite to the Borderlands group..  I still have to get thru that one.

Steam name : Bogganow.

 
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Hey guys,

I had to go home early yesterday due to illness. I'm still home feeling super crappy so I will likely be sleeping most of the day. Just a heads up.

Cheers,

Tony
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Hope you get well soon!!!!

Tony, How come you never accepted my friend invite on Steam?

lostnumberwar said:
Considering I'm not a five year old girl, female or gay. I find it pretty easy not to know who that douchebag is.
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so you do know who he is since you know he's a douchebag. :D

lawyered....

i hate cag 3.0

 
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Sepioth said:
@Frithsblessing and @fullmetal group invites sent through steam
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Thanks so much Sepioth and Neuro5i5 for the friend/group invites. It is appreciate.

sunasun said:
Hope you get well soon!!!!

Tony, How come you never accepted my friend invite on Steam?

so you do know who he is since you know he's a douchebag. :D

lawyered....

i hate cag 3.0
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Is Tony in the CAG Borderlands group? It seems kind of a necessity, with the tattoo and all.

Plus, How I Met Your Mother is so great.

 
Wish i had BL2 with all this BL talk so i could join in  the fun. Eh, guess it is for the best. I suck at shotters and action games anyway.

 
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Holy moley! The BL group is up to 42 members??? We're still talkng about it?

And to think this all started from lil' ol' me asking people to talk be out of buying BL2:GOTY :)
 
Done with the invites for the night. Time for bed have to be up in 5 hours for work.

If anyone else wants in to the group sent me a friend invite (steam profile in sig) and I will send out an invite in the morning then off to work for 9 hours. See you all again in like 17 hours :)

@mac the geek ... invite sent.

Trusty Mutsi said:
Holy moley! The BL group is up to 42 members??? We're still talkng about it?

And to think this all started from lil' ol' me asking people to talk be out of buying BL2:GOTY :)
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Yeah .. I went a little crazy with sending out invites to those who asked :)

 
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I always meant to check out General Knoxx. Beat the base game, but never really dug into the DLC.

 
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Thanks for the get better notes guys, I feel like trash.

I wanted to comment on the quote above too. I saw a few "rawrr this thread is off topic posts" sprinkled throughout the last pages of conversation.

I want to readdress this as we haven't done so in a while so everyone is on the same page:

1. The topic of this thread is determined by the people posting in it. As such, the only off topic stuff is harassment and flame bait. As long as you're not being a jerk, talk about whatever you want. This has been confirmed with both Cheapy and the mod team.

2. The conversation above, where it seems like DOZENS of people were connecting with each other to play Borderlands is exactly why this thread operates in such a manner. When I started doing this I promised you guys we'd build a community, not a just a place for me to shove product down your throat (first person to quote this with the correct movie I'm referencing gets a free game of their choice), but instead a place for all of us to talk about the deals we're running and the games we're playing. I would (and it is obvious the vast majority of the thread contributors agree) rather have a place for people to start playing TSW, Borderlands, etc. together than an online circular ad.

Thanks everyone, the thread is awesome, it sounds like it might not be for everyone though. I encourage everyone to stay a while...and listen.

Edit: Two cheers? Going back to sleep.

Cheers,

Tony
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Fight Club?

Edit: LOL I hate it when I THINK I hit refresh on a tab & didn't .. nevermind, I was wrong.. and really really late :)

 
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Trusty Mutsi said:
Holy moley! The BL group is up to 42 members??? We're still talkng about it?

And to think this all started from lil' ol' me asking people to talk be out of buying BL2:GOTY :)
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So now you gonna hafta buy the game after all. That sure went down well...

 
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I only just now realized you can invite people to a group without them being on your friends list.  :dunce:

 
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