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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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Sheesh.  You guys are real jerks, you know that?

He had a polite and simple request asking Tony for help in picking a free-to-play game on Amazon that would be fun to jump into on his birthday, and you guys decide to insult him rather than joining in with your own suggestions.

Personally I quite liked Star Wars: The Old Republic.  Even with the limitations on free-to-play characters, it is worth jumping into for the rather awesome story and atmosphere.  I'd guess many others--those that decide to be helpful, anyway--would suggest Paths of Exile.  We'll see what Tony suggests soon, I expect.

 
gilby said:
Sheesh. You guys are real jerks, you know that?

He had a polite and simple request asking Tony for help in picking a free-to-play game on Amazon that would be fun to jump into on his birthday, and you guys decide to insult him rather than joining in with your own suggestions.

Personally I quite liked Star Wars: The Old Republic. Even with the limitations on free-to-play characters, it is worth jumping into for the rather awesome story and atmosphere. I'd guess many others--those that decide to be helpful, anyway--would suggest Paths of Exile. We'll see what Tony suggests soon, I expect.
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+1 to Path of Exile

Yes we know... we spend how many hours a day cruising a cheapass gamer forum berating people for paying a penny over lowest-price-ever. ;)

 
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Cheaplikeafox 3.0 said:
And an odd one at that. Games, music, videos, books. Some smut, some just smut related. You have to be a real connoisseur to want to buy that.
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Actually seems pretty similar to their first bundle in being different sorts of things that share a similar theme. Their first one was the Big Brother bundle.

 
just got tom clancy gr future soldier deluxe $6.24 from steam. i didn't find a steam version at amazon also it doesn't appear amazon is matching the ubi sales. any news for amazon sales next week?

 
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For my 33rd birthday, Amazon gave me all of those free Pilot Season episodes.  Granted, everyone else got them as well, so it kind of limits the "specialness" of the gift.

Would have preferred digital games or something, but I guess I can settle for Arielle Kebbel's first nude scene in The After. ;)

 
tony i have 23 bdays i want hot whells teeenage mutant ninja turtles truck racer whatever on my wish lsit plz from steam only on amazon steam and eeverywheree except injustice  naruto urban freestyle and trails gold evoultion cause it my baackloggigng add to library queue heh 

 
is there a way to check if a Steam key is valid for activation?

 I have some left over steam keys from old bundle and want to give to friend but want to verify that it's working first PRIOR gifting.

 
Vox - 5CDDT-?MJV?-4?696 - Bond girl Scarlett Papavas Secret Agent Number

Little Street Racers - MRP??-4K7IC-WXHG3 - Movie Quote - "You'll shoot your eye out" .. The ammo to the "gun" in this movie is the answer the the ??

agentghost said:
is there a way to check if a Steam key is valid for activation?

I have some left over steam keys from old bundle and want to give to friend but want to verify that it's working first PRIOR gifting.
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Nope ...

 
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agentghost said:
is there a way to check if a Steam key is valid for activation?

I have some left over steam keys from old bundle and want to give to friend but want to verify that it's working first PRIOR gifting.
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Only if you already own the game yourself, otherwise no. If you DO own it, you'll be prompted to play or install it, but the key should still remain active for whoever you give it to. If you DON'T own the game already, it will add it to your account.

 
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I'm starting to build up a nice little "extra copies" list, I may need to do a dump on here sometime soon.

... that sounded wrong. Sorry.

I'll probably use SteamGifts to help manage the giveaway, and give everyone a fair shot. More info coming soonish, I guess.

 
agentghost said:
is there a way to check if a Steam key is valid for activation?

I have some left over steam keys from old bundle and want to give to friend but want to verify that it's working first PRIOR gifting.
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Meh, I just spam keys at my friends and let them know they might or might not work. Haven't gotten a complaint yet. Otherwise, if you already own the game, you can try adding it to your account, and Steam should say "product already owned" if the key is good.

 
eulogywerd21 said:
Only if you already own the game yourself, otherwise no. If you DO own it, you'll be prompted to play or install it, but the key should still remain active for whoever you give it to. If you DON'T own the game already, it will add it to your account.
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travathian said:
Meh, I just spam keys at my friends and let them know they might or might not work. Haven't gotten a complaint yet. Otherwise, if you already own the game, you can try adding it to your account, and Steam should say "product already owned" if the key is good.
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Steam does not tell you if the code is still active. It just says you own the game. I tried a code for a game I know was used and its the same message for a code I know was not used yet.

But yeah I do the same thing with friends .. "Here try this may or may not work" ... hehe

 
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LN3000 said:
I'm starting to build up a nice little "extra copies" list, I may need to do a dump on here sometime soon.

... that sounded wrong. Sorry.

I'll probably use SteamGifts to help manage the giveaway, and give everyone a fair shot. More info coming soonish, I guess.
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Enough to start working on an epic contest/puzzle?

 
LN3000 said:
I'm starting to build up a nice little "extra copies" list, I may need to do a dump on here sometime soon.

... that sounded wrong. Sorry.

I'll probably use SteamGifts to help manage the giveaway, and give everyone a fair shot. More info coming soonish, I guess.
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You should also create a Steam Group so only people in that group can enter the SteamGifts giveaway. Less lurkers and more chances for the regulars here :) Hey maybe I will actually win something on Steamgifts finally ...

 
I don't know anything about SteamGifts and I'm too old to start learning now.

fuck you all.

(That last part was thrown in just for flavor.)

 
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travathian said:
Enough to start working on an epic contest/puzzle?
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Maybe! I'm sure we can figure something out.

Sepioth said:
You should also create a Steam Group so only people in that group can enter the SteamGifts giveaway. Less lurkers and more chances for the regulars here :) Hey maybe I will actually win something on Steamgifts finally ...
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I was thinking something like that. The first batch will probably just be URL-only on SteamGifts. Since the winner would be public info in the giveaway, that may discourage lurkers.

Neuro5i5 said:
I don't know anything about SteamGifts and I'm too old to start learning now.

fuck you all.

(That last part was thrown in just for flavor.)
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It's easy and free, just use the "Sign in with steam" and basically it'll let you right in.

 
Finally finished my 4 in February:

Sleeping Dogs (started in January, but it counts!)

To the Moon

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

Alan Wake

Need to finish the Injustice single player campaign, maybe knock Bulletstorm off real quick.  Then back to revisit Skyram.  Or Borderlands 2.

 
Correlli said:
Finally finished my 4 in February:

Sleeping Dogs (started in January, but it counts!)

To the Moon

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

Alan Wake

Need to finish the Injustice single player campaign, maybe knock Bulletstorm off real quick. Then back to revisit Skyram. Or Borderlands 2.
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4 in February?

 
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