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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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went thru the list but nothing thats a must buy for me. it seems i'll be waiting a bit longer.

will buy when it's under $10

assassin creed 3 de $15
far cry 3 steam n/a
batman arkham origins $20
metro last light $13.6
saints row 4 $15

will buy when it's under $5
Civ 5 Brave New World $15
bioshock inf season pass -not on sale?

 
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Is there a TL;DR somewhere for Steam only stuff (does Amazon even let you filter search for this yet?) of stuff that's maybe a 'lowest price yet' discount or otherwise hasn't been on sale a million times before.

Sorry but my eyes glaze over at some huge ass spreadsheet and personally I prefer a smaller scale sale or if you must do this level of sale then a few daily featured deals at an even lower price like Steam does.

*Edit so I guess those few games at the op of the main Black Friday sale page or sort of the 'featured deals' but I either have them or the ones I don't are bundled with older games that I already have and buying them separate costs more than the bundle so doesn't do me any good.

While I like the idea of a franchise bundle the thing is that a lot of us here (and elsewhere like Reddit) already have the older games in the franchise since they have been on sale many, many times before at Amazon and elsewhere.

 
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Hi,

  If I understand right they started giving 5$ promo credit for some purchases. Do those apply to any purchase ?

  I'm interested in Bulletstorm which is on deal but not shown directly on the main weekly deal page.. does it apply for a 5$ credit ?

  Thanx for letting me know.

 
Thermopyle said:
I'm not seeing fine print, so I'm wondering about these two things:

1. Is this a $5 credit for each purchase? Meaning 5 games gets 5 credits?

2. Are the credits stackable?
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1. Yes

2. No (At least it wasn't last year.)

Edit: Tebow'd

 
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I can't get that spreadsheet to load right.

Could someone please check if the Sega Genesis Collection (Steam version) will be on sale?

 
Neuro5i5 said:
I'm not seeing it, Steam or otherwise.
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God damnit. Stupid Sega refuses to put that thing on sale. :(

I also noticed Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 is in the list. It's hilariously overpriced at $60 on Steam, but it doesn't have a price in the spreadsheet. So Tony, what's the sale price going to be?

 
Oooo, I can't wait for this to hit $1.69!

Go where all the cool cats come to get clean! Boogie down in this time management game through over 40 levels of disco and dance. When customers drop off their muddy pets, it's your job to clean 'em up! Play through cat-themed minigames and buy new equipment for the shop, even a far-out disco ball!
 
Neuro5i5 said:
Oooo, I can't wait for this to hit $1.69!

Go where all the cool cats come to get clean! Boogie down in this time management game through over 40 levels of disco and dance. When customers drop off their muddy pets, it's your job to clean 'em up! Play through cat-themed minigames and buy new equipment for the shop, even a far-out disco ball!
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Looks a bit too risque for my tastes

 
I have to say I'm a bit disappointed Amazon hasn't changed PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate MSRP to match Steam, since it makes the sale on it useless (Steam MSRP is $10). Any chance this could change, Tony?

 
Man that's gonna be lot to sort through on a phone. Still not sure how to save this excel sheet though, it's not offering a save or download button anywhere unless I'm just missing it.
 
Do you get a confirmation email about the $5 credit inmediately after purchase? I just bought two games and haven't received any :/.

 
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