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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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Need to figure out if Mario and Luigi works with this. Will either get it tomorrow for $200 + $40 gift card at Walmart or wait a week and go for target if it will be $150.
 
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Tempted to get a new(er)/another PS3 controller, but probably wont. Also tempted to Get AC IV, but also probably wont..

Thanks for posting OP.

 
Unfortunately I did not see any good deals on controllers (specifically PS3 controllers) this year like there were in 2012.   The $39.99 killzone trilogy game and camo controller bundle from Best Buy come to mind.

 
So lately I only peek in here once every blue moon and yet somehow whenever I do that no matter how infrequently or how much time passes I always seem to run into MysterD complaining about DRM and tebow saying something completely unintelligible.

Oh CAG Amazon thread, you are nothing if not consistent.

 
Motoki said:
So lately I only peek in here once every blue moon and yet somehow whenever I do that no matter how infrequently or how much time passes I always seem to run into MysterD complaining about DRM and tebow saying something completely unintelligible.
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That's what makes it home!

 
Motoki said:
So lately I only peek in here once every blue moon and yet somehow whenever I do that no matter how infrequently or how much time passes I always seem to run into [...] tebow saying something completely unintelligible.
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That describes pretty much every tebow post, and he does post way too much given the fact.

 
So wii u and PC version of all of those games will be 29.99? So can you confirm that includes black flag as well? If so I'll return my frys copy and get that with gcu.
 
This should stack with the $10 of $100 purchase coupons in any of you have one. Sunday, Dec 8th is when min'e expires so last day to use em' is the first day off this ad.

Personally I got my Mario & Luigi bundle today for $137 stacking 20% off caution with a $180 Walmart price match and 5% RedCard.
 
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Do you guys think I should get Batman for the Wii U at $30 or wait? I haven't even started Arkham City yet.

 
Motoki said:
So lately I only peek in here once every blue moon and yet somehow whenever I do that no matter how infrequently or how much time passes I always seem to run into MysterD complaining about DRM and tebow saying something completely unintelligible.

Oh CAG Amazon thread, you are nothing if not consistent.
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Indeed. The lull between sales... something like a cross between drug withdrawl and drug overdose.

 
Motoki said:
So lately I only peek in here once every blue moon and yet somehow whenever I do that no matter how infrequently or how much time passes I always seem to run into MysterD complaining about DRM and tebow saying something completely unintelligible.

Oh CAG Amazon thread, you are nothing if not consistent.
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Ummm - it's not just in the Amazon DVG thread that I complain about DRM...

 
Motoki said:
So lately I only peek in here once every blue moon and yet somehow whenever I do that no matter how infrequently or how much time passes I always seem to run into MysterD complaining about DRM and tebow saying something completely unintelligible.

Oh CAG Amazon thread, you are nothing if not consistent.
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You forgot: "...and Motoki being emo..."

In b4: "...and Mooby complaining..."

 
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Jeez, i was this close to going to Best Buy tomorrow and picking up a 3DS XL for $180. I think i will still take up BB's offer of buy one 3DS game and get 1 half off. But waiting an extra week for an XL is going to be hard. Oh well, i guess sales trump patience.

 
Cheaplikeafox 3.0 said:
Hey guys, I got nothing to say, look at me. I am writing in this thread.
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I got nothing game-related to say tonight either, so let me tell you about my job. My job is so fucking unbelievable. I'll try to sum it up by first telling you about the folks I work with:

First, there is this supermodel wanna-be chick. Yeah, okay, she is pretty hot, but damn is she completely useless. The girl is constantly fixing her hair or putting on make-up. She is extremely self-centred and has never once considered the needs or wants of anyone but herself. She is as dumb as a box of rocks, and I still find it surprising that she has enough brain power to continue to breathe.

The next chick is completely the opposite. She might even be one of the smartest people on the planet. Her career opportunities are endless, and yet she is here with us. She is a zero on a scale of 1 to 10. I'm not sure she even showers, much less shaves her "womanly" parts. I think she might be a lesbian, because every time we drive by the hardware store she moans like a cat in heat.

But the jewel in the crown has got to be the fucking stoner. And this guy is more than just your average pothead. In fact, he is baked before he comes to work, during work, and I'm sure after work. He probably hasn't been sober any time in the last ten years, and he's only 22. He dresses like a beatnik throwback from the 1960's, and to make things worse, he brings his big fucking dog to work. Every fucking day I have to look at this huge Great Dane walk around half-stoned from the second-hand smoke. Hell, sometimes I even think it's trying to talk with its constant bellowing. Also, both of them are constantly hungry, requiring multiple stops to McDonald's and Burger King, every single fucking day.

Anyway, I drive these fucktards around in my van and we solve mysteries and shit.

 
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I got nothing game-related to say tonight either, so let me tell you about my job. My job is so fucking unbelievable. I'll try to sum it up by first telling you about the folks I work with:

First, there is this supermodel wanna-be chick. Yeah, okay, she is pretty hot, but damn is she completely useless. The girl is constantly fixing her hair or putting on make-up. She is extremely self-centred and has never once considered the needs or wants of anyone but herself. She is as dumb as a box of rocks, and I still find it surprising that she has enough brain power to continue to breathe.

The next chick is completely the opposite. She might even be one of the smartest people on the planet. Her career opportunities are endless, and yet she is here with us. She is a zero on a scale of 1 to 10. I'm not sure she even showers, much less shaves her "womanly" parts. I think she might be a lesbian, because every time we drive by the hardware store she moans like a cat in heat.

But the jewel in the crown has got to be the fucking stoner. And this guy is more than just your average pothead. In fact, he is baked before he comes to work, during work, and I'm sure after work. He probably hasn't been sober any time in the last ten years, and he's only 22. He dresses like a beatnik throwback from the 1960's, and to make things worse, he brings his big fucking dog to work. Every fucking day I have to look at this huge Great Dane walk around half-stoned from the second-hand smoke. Hell, sometimes I even think it's trying to talk with its constant bellowing. Also, both of them are constantly hungry, requiring multiple stops to McDonald's and Burger King, every single fucking day.

Anyway, I drive these fucktards around in my van and we solve mysteries and shit.
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oh realy now this sound scooby doo-do sort off without fred unless ur fred hehh where are u?

i tell u story i hate u all done end of story just kiddding

 
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I got nothing game-related to say tonight either, so let me tell you about my job. My job is so fucking unbelievable. I'll try to sum it up by first telling you about the folks I work with:

First, there is this supermodel wanna-be chick. Yeah, okay, she is pretty hot, but damn is she completely useless. The girl is constantly fixing her hair or putting on make-up. She is extremely self-centred and has never once considered the needs or wants of anyone but herself. She is as dumb as a box of rocks, and I still find it surprising that she has enough brain power to continue to breathe.

The next chick is completely the opposite. She might even be one of the smartest people on the planet. Her career opportunities are endless, and yet she is here with us. She is a zero on a scale of 1 to 10. I'm not sure she even showers, much less shaves her "womanly" parts. I think she might be a lesbian, because every time we drive by the hardware store she moans like a cat in heat.

But the jewel in the crown has got to be the fucking stoner. And this guy is more than just your average pothead. In fact, he is baked before he comes to work, during work, and I'm sure after work. He probably hasn't been sober any time in the last ten years, and he's only 22. He dresses like a beatnik throwback from the 1960's, and to make things worse, he brings his big fucking dog to work. Every fucking day I have to look at this huge Great Dane walk around half-stoned from the second-hand smoke. Hell, sometimes I even think it's trying to talk with its constant bellowing. Also, both of them are constantly hungry, requiring multiple stops to McDonald's and Burger King, every single fucking day.

Anyway, I drive these fucktards around in my van and we solve mysteries and shit.
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:rofl: Tonight has been a good night. Why exactly does everyone want to get back to what's "thread appropriate subject matter"? Are you THAT anxious to start bitching about Steams' lackluster "deals" again during the Winter Sale?!?

 
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seamoss said:
I got nothing game-related to say tonight either, so let me tell you about my job. My job is so fucking unbelievable. I'll try to sum it up by first telling you about the folks I work with:

First, there is this supermodel wanna-be chick. Yeah, okay, she is pretty hot, but damn is she completely useless. The girl is constantly fixing her hair or putting on make-up. She is extremely self-centred and has never once considered the needs or wants of anyone but herself. She is as dumb as a box of rocks, and I still find it surprising that she has enough brain power to continue to breathe.

The next chick is completely the opposite. She might even be one of the smartest people on the planet. Her career opportunities are endless, and yet she is here with us. She is a zero on a scale of 1 to 10. I'm not sure she even showers, much less shaves her "womanly" parts. I think she might be a lesbian, because every time we drive by the hardware store she moans like a cat in heat.

But the jewel in the crown has got to be the fucking stoner. And this guy is more than just your average pothead. In fact, he is baked before he comes to work, during work, and I'm sure after work. He probably hasn't been sober any time in the last ten years, and he's only 22. He dresses like a beatnik throwback from the 1960's, and to make things worse, he brings his big fucking dog to work. Every fucking day I have to look at this huge Great Dane walk around half-stoned from the second-hand smoke. Hell, sometimes I even think it's trying to talk with its constant bellowing. Also, both of them are constantly hungry, requiring multiple stops to McDonald's and Burger King, every single fucking day.

Anyway, I drive these fucktards around in my van and we solve mysteries and shit.
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I want to see more of this

If you could turn scooby doo into "fred's pissed off journal" fan fic like this...I would thoroughly enjoy it and during the time I would read it I would be slightly less bitter than I am normally

 
pasports31 said:
I want to see more of this

If you could turn scooby doo into "fred's pissed off journal" fan fic like this...I would thoroughly enjoy it and during the time I would read it I would be slightly less bitter than I am normally
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I wish I could say I wrote it, but unfortunately I'm not *that* funny.

And try not to be bitter, you'll turn into your parents.

 
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So while we're on the topic of poor career choices, let me just say I used to have it a lot better. A bright future as a professor at a prestigious university, a cute lady friend who bought me such dashing hats, and as much tea as I could drink.

Now I'm stuck with this obnoxious kid who thinks I'm a god, running around solving all these blasted puzzles for the imbeciles of the world. I'm even starting to do it myself; everything reminds me of a puzzle. I can't even take a crap without the toilet bowl  making me think of a riddle about two ducks falling down a drain. It doesn't help I've got a ridiculous snidely whiplash wannabe following me around that thinks I stole his girl, who seems to have a fetish for dressing up in full body latex disguises and popping out with dramatic flourish.

Honestly if I'd know this was what a gentlemen does I'd have stayed far away and gone back to crosswords in the cafe, away from the time travel, rampaging Ferris wheels, and curious villages I'm paraded around to.

 
MrNinjaSquirrel said:
So while we're on the topic of poor career choices, let me just say I used to have it a lot better. A bright future as a professor at a prestigious university, a cute lady friend who bought me such dashing hats, and as much tea as I could drink.

Now I'm stuck with this obnoxious kid who thinks I'm a god, running around solving all these blasted puzzles for the imbeciles of the world. I'm even starting to do it myself; everything reminds me of a puzzle. I can't even take a crap without the toilet bowl making me think of a riddle about two ducks falling down a drain. It doesn't help I've got a ridiculous snidely whiplash wannabe following me around that thinks I stole his girl, who seems to have a fetish for dressing up in full body latex disguises and popping out with dramatic flourish.

Honestly if I'd know this was what a gentlemen does I'd have stayed far away and gone back to crosswords in the cafe, away from the time travel, rampaging Ferris wheels, and curious villages I'm paraded around to.
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....

I feel like you're referencing something but I can't quite put my finger on it.

 
Whatever, I used to deliver toys to everybody in the world over the span of a single night. Naturally, you're bound to bungle one or two wishes (that IS a shit ton of people, yo), and believe me, does the North Pole hear about it. Anyway, I finally snapped, and took out my trusty ax, which used to be used by the elves to chop down trees (I used the wood to manufacture toys in my sweatshop (you can't expect me to produce THAT many toys while maintaining ethically sound work environments)). Anyway, I'm going on a murder spree this christmas. Have fun getting your snotty nosed little kids what they want without my help. And you better hope it's not your snotty nosed lil tike that gets the ax.

 
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My mum practically kicked my ass out of the house before I even hit thirteen, and I never even met my dad. My only friend till I was ten was the fucking prick next door who was always beating the shit out of me and telling me I wasn’t worth shit. Its not even like I had a choice, the town fucking had something like nine people living in it, I shit you not. My entire adolescence was just moving around from place trying to get along with people who didn’t even want me.
 
You think that’s the worst? My only friend was an Asian guy in his thirties or something, who only kept me around because he thought I could help him get laid. The only perk was that I also got to hang around with this cute ginger chick, she was flat as a pancake sure, but damn she was a total nymph. She must have been a sadist or something cause she always took pleasure in hitting me and telling me how she loved to get wet.
 
But dear god the bane of my existence was this adult couple that I could NOT seem to avoid. You know these types of couples that are absolutely sickening, like they wear matching outfits and finish each other’s sentences? Yeah they were fucking creepers, and they had a cat, which was at least twice as annoying as they were, I swear this thing would never shut the fuck up.
 
Like I said I ended up moving from town to town getting into fights with other kids my age, even adults from time to time.
 
The only thing that kept me going was my dream to become a Pokemon master.
 
 
Contributing an extremely amusing copypasta :D.
 
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MysterD said:
Right - that's what I did.

It still says the key's already been used/activated.

And it ain't working to unlock the Deluxe Ed stuff, like it supposed to.
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You know what? I just remembered the same happened to me. I'd just quoted a memory of the instructions at you and they were wrong. The in game deluxe stuff just works when you reach the appropriate points if you activate the key in uplay to first activate the game. The out of game stuff is supplied via whoever supplied you the key. Either on the retail disc or your digital download supplier (in my case via impulse thanks to their insane misprice). I don't think the UPlay client itself supplies the out of game bonus content?

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It was in a patch that they changed how the deluxe content is delivered so the in game content is there automatically based upon your original activation key: http://www.vg247.com/2012/12/13/far-cry-3-pc-patch-1-03-now-live-updates-listed/

Here was my original post on it back in the day: http://forums.thedigitalfix.com/forums/showpost.php?p=9782911&postcount=44

It all comes back to how UPlay was designed when this game came out. Back then you weren't meant to enter game keys and download via UPlay - though it was possible via the command line. Instead you were meant to install the game from your third party supplier, which would have included the deluxe content, and then upon first run it would add itself to UPlay.

 
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Ball's in Best Buy's court, though if you want those Limited 3DS XLs, you might as well buy them now?

The Ouya's not worth getting if you're solely going to use it to play retro games, considering a Wii does it so much better.

 
I'm assuming that the 250GB 360 with Halo 4 and Tomb Raider is the same as the holiday bundle that is on sale 249.99 this week?
 
targetbsp said:
You know what? I just remembered the same happened to me. I'd just quoted a memory of the instructions at you and they were wrong. The in game deluxe stuff just works when you reach the appropriate points if you activate the key in uplay to first activate the game. The out of game stuff is supplied via whoever supplied you the key. Either on the retail disc or your digital download supplier (in my case via impulse thanks to their insane misprice). I don't think the UPlay client itself supplies the out of game bonus content?

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It was in a patch that they changed how the deluxe content is delivered so the in game content is there automatically based upon your original activation key: http://www.vg247.com/2012/12/13/far-cry-3-pc-patch-1-03-now-live-updates-listed/

Here was my original post on it back in the day: http://forums.thedigitalfix.com/forums/showpost.php?p=9782911&postcount=44

It all comes back to how UPlay was designed when this game came out. Back then you weren't meant to enter game keys and download via UPlay - though it was possible via the command line. Instead you were meant to install the game from your third party supplier, which would have included the deluxe content, and then upon first run it would add itself to UPlay.
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Oh - yeah, I flat-out activated and DL'ed it via UPlay.

So, I'd basically have to literally re-download the entire thing basically from Amazon DVG just to get the soundtrack & digital booklet.

Dammit - I wish I knew that ahead of time!

Thanks for the info.

 
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FWIW I had no issues with my STEAM copy of Far Cry 3 with the deluxe addition content.  No silly download from uplay then download from another place, then wait for a lunar eclipse just for extra animal skins.

Thank you STEAM for allowing me to play Far Cry 3 with no issues what so ever.

 
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Drabelincoln said:
FWIW I had no issues with my STEAM copy of Far Cry 3 with the deluxe addition content. No silly download from uplay then download from another place, then wait for a lunar eclipse just for extra animal skins.

Thank you STEAM for allowing me to play Far Cry 3 with no issues what so ever.
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