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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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MrNinjaSquirrel said:
how's the UI? I can deal with outdated graphics, but going back to older and far less user friendly Sims and RollerTycoon games hasn't been the easiest thing to adjust to :headache:
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I would say the UI is pretty good and the tutorials/intros sort you out pretty well. So that's a big plus with it. I'd say it was worth it even now, it is great game, I just know more modern stuff is going to be prettier and going to have similar/same features that back then were more fresh.

 
Cheaplikeafox 3.0 said:
I would say the UI is pretty good and the tutorials/intros sort you out pretty well. So that's a big plus with it. I'd say it was worth it even now, it is great game, I just know more modern stuff is going to be prettier and going to have similar/same features that back then were more fresh.
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I guess I will try the demo to Tropico and see if I like that, since 3 is actually $4 cheaper right now. Thanks for the info :)

 
Does anyone happen to have an extra Ticket to Ride key? My wife tried it out last night and loved it, and I was hoping to get it this morning, but alas, no more promo. PM me and let me know if you have one. Hopefully we can work something out.

 
It'd be cool to get another Square Enix Bundle, with something like Hitman Absolution Professional Edition, the reboot Tomb Raider, and Sleeping Dogs. I'd pay $20 for that. I would think this wouldn't be as ridiculous as the last one, seeing how Hitman and Sleeping Dogs have been around $7, and Tomb Raider's been $12.50 on Amazon. Maybe I just have way too high expectations of Amazon now :D

 
Cheaplikeafox 3.0 said:
I looked into it and there are some mods to pretty up SC4 so maybe don't write it off completely?
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Oh I haven't, I've just been interested in Tropico for a while as well and really doubt I need two city building games right now, so I figured I'd try the one that I can while it's on sale.

Big thanks to Tony for getting Mutant Blobs PM'd :applause:

 
Seeing as someone had to, and I was going to buy the game regardless, I took the "risk".  I can say that while what buying Euro Truck Simulator 2 gives you is not your traditional "Steam key", it does indeed activate on Steam.

 
MrNinjaSquirrel said:
That's what I figured, but I want to ask just in case. So now the question: is SimCity 4 still worth playing, or would say Tropico 3/4 or some other city building game be a better buy?
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I have played both Sim City 4 and Tropico 3/4 and both are great games. Tropico is a fun and relaxed game and if you can get the one that has all the DLC included you can't go wrong.
 
Boo, the two games I want that are on sale on Steam naturally aren't carried by Amazon... Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes and Van Helsing.

Amazon's library really disappoints me sometimes. :cry:

 
Wow, this last promo was only a two day thing? I was gonna buy something to pick up a spare copy of Party of Sin, but since it wasn't working I decided to hold off. Guess that wasn't a smart decision.

 
Finally got my promo code for Party of Sin (didn't have to message Tony, it came on its own). Hopefully we'll see some more Indie Themed bundles and specials in the future, though this particular sale seemed to be rife with issues throughout.

 
Tony,

Thank you for the Sniper Elite v2 deal!

I almost bought Sniper Elite v2 during the Amazon Summer Sale; but instead grabbed Tomb Raider for ~$10 [thx btw].

Now there's a deal on Sniper Elite V2; it's like your reading my mind !

Keep up the good work.

 
So it took 2 days, but I finally was able to get my Party of Sin. I hadn't sent Tony a message about it because I was confident it would get sorted out eventually, which it did. 

 
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Schizophriend said:
So it took 2 days, but I finally was able to get my Party of Sin. I hadn't sent Tony a message about it because I was confident it would get sorted out eventually, which it did.

<3 Tony! Keep up the good work. :)
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i received the credit too ... thanks Tony for the effort ~

 
Thanks Tony! Seems we all got our Party of Sin credits now.

So I see that Triple Town has been PM'd to $3.99

Although Im prob the only one who wants it; hey its got steam trading cards dont judge!

Im spoiled by Amazon & am hoping for more free indies, since its in the indie store.

Anyone else waiting to see if they're gonna release some more free games?

 
Hmmm, I thought Home got added to the free games list? Got it an hour ago but received none of the extra emails ...

Edit: Oh, I guess the promotion ended sigh...

 
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Pretty sure they don't repeat dailies anymore given they cycle everything through as a daily, flash, and sometimes community vote.

 
Mooby said:
Pretty sure they don't repeat dailies anymore given they cycle everything through as a daily, flash, and sometimes community vote.
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Most likely the final day will be repeats of the games that have Summer Sale cards.

There's 10 of those cards, each one has been a featured daily.

There's 10 daily deals per day.

There are 11 sale days.

Makes sense to repeat those featured titles for the final day.

OK by me, as it gives another shot at buying Tomb Raider.

 
Eldredpe said:
Most likely the final day will be repeats of the games that have Summer Sale cards.

There's 10 of those cards, each one has been a featured daily.

There's 10 daily deals per day.
There are 11 sale days.

Makes sense to repeat those featured titles for the final day.

OK by me, as it gives another shot at buying Tomb Raider.
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I agree, this is most likely what will happen. The last day will probably be an encore day.
 
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