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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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wow thanks Tony for the match on far cry 3

PC Download: $23.99
Promotion Applied: -$3.60
 
Total Before Tax: $20.39
Estimated Tax: $0.00
 
Order total: $20.39
 
Lol this thread got weird again while I was sleeping:

Anyone here interested in XCOM? I'm working with 2K to get Q&A's set up about the game for those interested.

The first one is titled:

The Music and Art of the Bureau

So if you have any questions related to The Music and Art of the Bureau, post them here, I'll get them to the people at 2K making the game, and get answers back up when we get them.

Cheers,

Tony

 
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Lol this thread got weird again while I was sleeping:

Anyone here interested in XCOM? I'm working with 2K to get Q&A's set up about the game for those interested.

The first one is titled:

The Music and Art of the Bureau

So if you have any questions related to The Music and Art of the Bureau, post them here, I'll get them to the people at 2K making the game, and get answers back up when we get them.

Cheers,

Tony
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Hi Tony,

Any chance 2K will match NBA2K13 50% off or old flash sale price of 7 $ish before? Thanks!

http://www.amazon.com/NBA-2K13-Online-Game-Code/dp/B008EYQXL4/ref=sr_1_1_title_0?s=videogames-download&ie=UTF8&qid=1374256645&sr=1-1&keywords=nba+2k13

http://store.steampowered.com/app/219600/

 
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Lol this thread got weird again while I was sleeping:

Anyone here interested in XCOM? I'm working with 2K to get Q&A's set up about the game for those interested.

The first one is titled:

The Music and Art of the Bureau

So if you have any questions related to The Music and Art of the Bureau, post them here, I'll get them to the people at 2K making the game, and get answers back up when we get them.

Cheers,

Tony
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It may be an obvious question, but how are they matching up 3ps action and turn-based strategy?

 
Amazon DVG Deals said:
Lol this thread got weird again while I was sleeping:

Anyone here interested in XCOM? I'm working with 2K to get Q&A's set up about the game for those interested.

The first one is titled:

The Music and Art of the Bureau

So if you have any questions related to The Music and Art of the Bureau, post them here, I'll get them to the people at 2K making the game, and get answers back up when we get them.

Cheers,

Tony
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Even though this might NOT pertain to the development of the game...

My question is - will the game actually ship w/ the soundtrack to the game?

I really think games should actually ship w/ the soundtrack.

 
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Amazon DVG Deals said:
Lol this thread got weird again while I was sleeping:

Anyone here interested in XCOM? I'm working with 2K to get Q&A's set up about the game for those interested.

The first one is titled:

The Music and Art of the Bureau

So if you have any questions related to The Music and Art of the Bureau, post them here, I'll get them to the people at 2K making the game, and get answers back up when we get them.

Cheers,

Tony
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Is the game going to have the same aesthetics as XCOM: Enemy Unknown, as far as character and alien design?

 
cutter2 said:
Which is really stupid since it would net Amazon a lot of sales from people like me who would rather buy from Amazon than Steam.
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by the time a deal got PM it might already be over. I think it's just too much work for them to constantly change the price back and forth (look how long some of these are taking to be matched).

 
MrNinjaSquirrel said:
by the time a deal got PM it might already be over. I think it's just too much work for them to constantly change the price back and forth (look how long some of these are taking to be matched).
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Eh, there are only 3 cycles of flash and community sales each day, and they both change together at the same time. I'd get it if the deals were flipping every 2-3 hours, but 8 hours should be plenty of time for them to PM. Moreover I'm not seeing Amazon running any of their own sales right now. All they've been doing is PM'ing Steam since the sale started, so you'd kind of figure they'd have the time to PM all the deals. Of course, I don't know how their system works so perhaps changing the prices is a more time consuming process that I imagine it to be.

Not a big deal since I'll just buy it off Steam. Just been a bummer not being able to use the coupon yet, since the last 3 games I wanted to use it on (Dishonored, Fez, and Trine 2) aren't available on Amazon apparently.

 
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Insomniac_34 said:
Just realized that Amazon is carrying Rogue Legacy. I could've sworn I had checked last week and it wasn't there, so I'm guessing it's relatively new to the store. In any event, any chance for a PM Tony?

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Cellar-Door-Games-Inc-Download/dp/B00DWHFUVM/

Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/241600/

Using gooncave would bring that down to $10.20, which is roughly what the pre-order price was.
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Good Eye! That def WAS NOT there last time I looked. Damn now Im upset I used GOONCAVE already.

 
MrNinjaSquirrel said:
by the time a deal got PM it might already be over. I think it's just too much work for them to constantly change the price back and forth (look how long some of these are taking to be matched).
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Except Amazon already does that for physical items. Prices change constantly on some of those items even when matching sale prices.

 
Insomniac_34 said:
Just realized that Amazon is carrying Rogue Legacy. I could've sworn I had checked last week and it wasn't there, so I'm guessing it's relatively new to the store. In any event, any chance for a PM Tony?

Using gooncave would bring that down to $10.20, which is roughly what the pre-order price was.
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+1 for a price match please Tony. I unluckily (or maybe luckily) forgot to use gooncave when I bought Dark Souls so I'll probably end up using it for this. If we get a price match with steam that would be even better.

 
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