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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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Neuro5i5 said:
So, I have some extras to hand out. Quote with what you want (1 per, please) and I'll PM you. First come, first served.

Conditions:

  • Must have had an account since a minimum of November 2013.
  • Must have at least 50 posts.
Games offered: (All Gone)

  • Sleeping Dogs (vanilla)
  • Tomb Raider (2013)
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I call dibs spoders on your extras from the impending Humble Squeenix Bundle.

 
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agentghost said:
anyone here watching the game? I am not a Bronco fan but even I start to feel sorry for them. :(
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Defense wins championships.

The safety wasn't on Manning (Ramirez botched the snap). The two picks were on him though. He's not used to being pressured anymore. His O-line's getting kicked around hard.

And now Harvin scores on the kickoff. When the guy's healthy he's amazing. When he's healthy.

 
horrible Super Bowl in my opinion.  I expect some back and forth between 2 monsters.. not a total slaughter between a giant and a little sheep

 
pasports31 said:
maybe tony will pull a special sale since h'll likely be in a good mood
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Yeah .. then he will read this thread and see that some people think the DS keys where some sort of conspiracy theory. :p And his happy mood will be gone.

Edited to add some needed sarcasm

 
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agentghost said:
horrible Super Bowl in my opinion. I expect some back and forth between 2 monsters.. not a total slaughter between a giant and a little sheep
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Agreed. Broncos looked completely unprepared. Offense gave up 4 turnovers, defense can't stop a pretty average offense, and the ST gave up a KO TD. No shame in losing to SEA, which was the best team in the NFL this season by far, but not getting stomped like this.

 
Sepioth said:
Yeah .. then he will read this thread and see that some people think the DS keys where some sort of conspiracy theory. :p And his happy mood will be gone.
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The word conspiracy was, perhaps, a poor choice of words from whoever first put it out there. Feelings were bound to be a little hurt when a promotion doesn't go as planned. I don't think Tony will take offense as I'm sure that's not the way he wanted it to go either.

Plus, having your team win the Superbowl in style surely takes a bit of the edge off, no? ;)

 
If anyone finds a link to all superbowl commercials let me know. i missed half the game, and it looks like it was for the best. I will just wait till the commercials come out.

 
Sepioth said:
Yeah .. then he will read this thread and see that some people think the DS keys where some sort of conspiracy theory. :p And his happy mood will be gone.
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well, it was though, tony's in league with the aliens, who have been supplying him with technology to make games deals. however, they're huge dark souls fans, and demanded all of his keys as payment

 
pasports31 said:
well, it was though, tony's in league with the aliens, who have been supplying him with technology to make games deals. however, they're huge dark souls fans, and demanded all of his keys as payment
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the aliens also spank tony heheh and they made ppublisher mad so the publisher say screw u aliens we going to find ur women and spank them hard

 
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pasports31 said:
well, it was though, tony's in league with the aliens, who have been supplying him with technology to make games deals. however, they're huge dark souls fans, and demanded all of his keys as payment
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And in return for the keys the aliens gave the Seahawks the ability to kick ass ... and all that "deal tech"

 
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What is it with the warnings on the bottom of commercials with stunts.

Doritos commercial where boy rides his dog to wrangle a bag of Doritos from his kid - Warning "Do Not Attempt"

Car commercial where a car rides up a wall and onto a train - Warning "Cars can not jump on trains"

Baby water skiing - Warning " Do Not Atempt. Professional Stunt Baby"

I just find it silly that these warnings need to be there. All to protect themselves from frivolous law suits.

 
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