Amazon PCDD - Important Update New Community Manager Incoming!

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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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Are we still getting those $5 Editor's Choice credits when we buy something right now? Not seeing any mention of it under the PCDD store page.
 
Count me in as another sale on Dawnguard at $5.  That qualifies it for the CAG backlog discount instabuy.  Also, would love a similar cut on the Dishonored DLC.  Great prices though on the bundle packs.  

 
guyver2077 said:
The story is still pretty damn good for COD so not sure why everyone is saying the game is 'garbage'....
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1. Horrible MP Spawns, which dont seem to get fixed with each passing patch. Granted its a month old but IW clearly didnt test it.

2. Some maps are way to big for a game like this, which i dont have a problem with personally. But when someone spawns behind you on a map like stonehaven i want to club a baby seal to death.

3. No point playing MP on 360 or PS3 really, no dedicated server support, and no ground war.

4. Squads is total utter lag fest.

5. Game is already infested with a load of hackers.

The game shows signs of brilliance.., but its ridden with too much crap, including things i didnt point out. Polish a turd and you still have a turd.
 
Wow, I don't think I can resist picking up Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC for $4.99. That's astounding. I said I'd wait for 75% off... so I must uphold my earlier claim. Amazon wins, Thanks Tony!

All Skyrim DLC owned... check

Time to enter the world of modding for the first time (thanks to Neuro5i5's sage advice/posts)... check

See everyone in about 3 months... check?

 
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Has anyone else gotten a coupon in the mail from Best Buy for the Gamers Club Unlocked for two years for $30? I'm not even a member anymore and they sent this to me.

 
Jame Retief said:
This bundle is missing the Gathering of Power expansion that the non-Steam version includes for the same price. Can we get a proportional discount on that expansion as well?
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00CZH0V3M
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Look further down at the list of games in the bundle. GOP is included.

 
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I know some of you have been waiting for this. It will be $1.99 soon :)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GWT8U9Q

Cheers,
Tony
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my typical amazon digital purchase process:

left side: we don't like these kinds of games - not interested

right side: confirm and click - ok bought

left side: WTH - we don't play these

right side: dude it was 1.99 - look at how many games we got for that

left side: ok fine - but at least lets put it in the steam library

right side: ooohhh another sale - Tony's back - sorry what were you saying

 
Neuro5i5 said:
What about those people that are creative, but both financially and artistically challenged? Sometimes I think when someone does something exceptional, that it is then wrongfully held as a standard. Just to put myself out there as an example, I have various ideas for games and have been storyboarding a few, but don't have the artistic skills required and certainly don't have the financial means to acquire them. If I ever get out of the planning phase, I'd likely just use RPG Maker assets as it's an affordable tool I can use to verify proof of concept.
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Can I do the artwork for your game?
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Mooby said:
Fez is poop-on-a-stick.
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fez should've used this as its theme music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1E_wOjTE-I
 
Palinn said:
Look further down at the list of games in the bundle. GOP is included.
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Ah, I see. Weird that the title would state it in the direct download version, but not the Steam version.

Regardless, I would still like to see the Gathering of Power expansion also put on sale with the same proportional discount for those of us that are only missing GoP.

Please, Tony? :)
 
In for Dragonborn DLC.

But, damn it - there's that 30 cents tax or so!

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Now, we need Hearthfire + Dawnguard also at 75% off or better each.

Actually, make it better than 75% off - since Amazon DVG charges tax. :p

 
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MysterD said:
In for Dragonborn DLC.

But, damn it - there's that 30 cents tax or so!

EDIT:

Now, we need Hearthfire + Dawnguard also at 75% off or better each.

Actually, make it better than 75% off - since Amazon DVG charges tax. :p
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or u can ask me and paid me in paypal lol hehe sincei dont got taxes yet

 
puffy said:
something is messed up?

I only got

Spectromancer + gathering of power (as listed on description and items)

without League of Heroes + truth & beauty

i suppose first key should give all 3 except gathering but thats not the case
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Are you saying that you redeemed the key and didn't get the DLC or that the key doesn't say that it includes the DLC? There is an entry in the Steam database for a single key that includes all three.

 
yeah got vanilla  spectromancer+gathering of power only

redeemed as 

Retail
Spectromancer: Gathering of Power Retail


Retail
Spectromancer Retail

 
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puffy said:
something is messed up?

I only got

Spectromancer + gathering of power (as listed on description and items)

without League of Heroes + truth & beauty

i suppose first key should give all 3 except gathering but thats not the case
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yeah i bought it too...got spectromancer and gathering of power

i should have read in here before i bought it. :(

 
Tony will fix it I guess,seems its global so Iam not contacting support yet

probably they will add keys to our accounts

 
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thrinn said:
The only drawbacks to the XL is that the pixel density is pretty low, so 3DS games can end up looking very grainy on the giant screen. The other issue is that the XL speakers are pretty weak. Other than that the XL easily wins out over the OG model. You'll be able to transfer your ambassador games.
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the games look perfectly fine, grainy is bs. the speakers could be louder tho

 
Chin35char said:
Has anyone else gotten a coupon in the mail from Best Buy for the Gamers Club Unlocked for two years for $30? I'm not even a member anymore and they sent this to me.
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Check your status on bestbuy.com too. I got the coupon today and found out I had the new Unlocked active until 2/10/2014. So, 20% off new games. My membership expired around Sept/Oct.

 
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