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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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wtsutton said:
Got it! The 1.99 price also included Wrath of the Lamb
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binding of isaac is awesome. that's some of the best 1.99 you can possibly spend in this sale. i have about 45 hours of playtime in BoI, and I could get a lot more out of it. It's tricky at first, you have to learn what the items do, etc, but it's addiciting.

 
Thanks Tony for the price matches!!! Picked up FFVII, FFVIII, Far Cry 3 Deluxe Edition.

I just bought Far Cry 3 Deluxe edition for $7.49 ti may have been a mistake, so get it before goes away!

 
pasports31 said:
binding of isaac is awesome. that's some of the best 1.99 you can possibly spend in this sale. i have about 45 hours of playtime in BoI, and I could get a lot more out of it. It's tricky at first, you have to learn what the items do, etc, but it's addiciting.
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I both loathe and absolutely adore that game. My addiction is unhealthy.

 
crossposting from the steam thread:

Great News! The Amazon AppStore finally sale priced it..
 
Buy SotMC for $0.99 on mobile and get a steam key.   fuck yeah!
 
I got it for free with my Amazon Coins! :whee:
 
Thanks Miranda for posting this yesterday!  (Amazon was charging $2.99 yesterday.)
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asheskitty said:
crossposting from the steam thread:

Great News! The Amazon AppStore finally sale priced it..

Buy SotMC for $0.99 on mobile and get a steam key. fuck yeah!

I got it for free with my Amazon Coins! :whee:

Thanks to whomever posted this yesterday. (Amazon was charging $2.99 yesterday.)
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It was Miranda. And yes, I already bought my iOS copy, emailed and received my Steam key, idled the game, got my drops and crafted a badge in the last 24 hours.

 
Neuro5i5 said:
It was Miranda. And yes, I already bought my iOS copy, emailed and received my Steam key, idled the game, got my drops and crafted a badge in the last 24 hours.
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Thanks, I couldn't remember who, and well... I'm not searching a hundred pages of the steam thread. Updated my posts.
 
cyrus386 said:
There are a LOT of items. These game seriously needs a manual, like old-school style.
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Worse, the game itself won't tell you what they freakln' do. you're going to need to utilize that item list to manage which trinkets/items are good for your each and every playthrough.

 
taylort3 said:
Worse, the game itself won't tell you what they freakln' do. you're going to need to utilize that item list to manage which trinkets/items are good for your each and every playthrough.
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And, in true old school style, many of the items are seriously detrimental and will either outright hurt you or screw your game over in such a way as to make it very difficult to play normally. I love it.

 
Amazon DVG Deals said:
A bunch of redditors have been talking about this CCG: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GWT8U9Q

I had to play Spectromancer to test it last week. I really enjoyed it.

Cheers,
Tony
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In case people were worried that Spectromancer is like Magic, in that you have to shell out big bucks in order to be able to compete: you don't. It isn't really a CCG, there is no collecting. It is more of deck building strategy card game.

 
payday the heist is $2 at steam but it's a flash sale. this will not be price matched since it is a flash sale, correct?

 
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wtsutton said:
Binding of Isaac is only 1.99. Should I get it?????
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BoI is easily worth ten times that. But that being said, it's almost always a daily at some point during the sales which would make it even cheaper. Also, buy the DLC separately as a gift and wait to install it, play the base game for a while first. The DLC alters things substantially and you're much better off getting a feel for the game before using it.

taylort3 said:
Was there not a new version of Isaac being planned? A Director's Cut, of sorts...?
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Yes, should be out in the spring. Supposedly there will be a discount for previous owners, though the base price is likely to be around $20.

 
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cyrus386 said:
You won't regret it. Wrath of the Lamb adds a lot. If you find it difficult at first, stick with it; it will get easier the more items and characters you unlock. And you will probably need this:

Binding of Isaac Wiki

There are a LOT of items. These game seriously needs a manual, like old-school style.
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The whole point is figuring out what they do yourself, like old-school style.

 
O_o said:
The whole point is figuring out what they do yourself, like old-school style.
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and here i was under the impression the point of playing video games was to do so however way you wanted that was most fun for you

i'm so stupid

 
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pasports31 said:
and here i was under the impression the point of playing video games was to do so however way you wanted that was most fun for you

i'm so stupid
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So self centered... you're supposed to play it the way someone on the internet who doesn't know you says you're supposed to play it.

Learn to think about the feelings of others, jeez. ;)

 
taylort3 said:
Worse, the game itself won't tell you what they freakln' do. you're going to need to utilize that item list to manage which trinkets/items are good for your each and every playthrough.
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I played with a Chrome window w/ 6+ tabs open to the wiki and other stuff.

O_o said:
The whole point is figuring out what they do yourself, like old-school style.
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Aside from the other comments, there's a balance. If you're not interested in maximizing your chances of clearing the full game, you could do it that way, but it can be totes frustrating. And then there's the other end, where I've seen people min/maxing and breaking down the damage multipliers and whatnot—that seems a bit much.

There's also BOILeR, (competitive, e-sports BoI) if you can handle watching other people play—I usually can't—to pick up strategies/item-combos/etc.

 
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