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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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Solid-Snake-Eyes said:
What kind of stuff appears on the editor's choice list? Is it only games from 2013? No chance of something like the Skyrim DLC being on there?
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The last two years have had a mix of games - definitely not just from the preceding year.

There's a chance that the Skyrim DLC will be on it... however, I don't have any faith in Bethesda agreeing to that (given how stingy they've been with discounts thus far.)
 
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wilflare said:
(is Walking Dead: 400 Days worth it?)
thinking what else to get to stock up on em coupons
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Yeah, it's a lead-in to s2. Not very long, maybe an hour and a half. A few interesting glimpses of the new characters we'll be seeing, I guess.

voken said:
Deadpool is a bad game with poor gameplay. If you want Deadpool, read the comics. If you want a good superhero game, go with Batman Origins, City, or Asylum.

Nothing of value is lost when a poorly made game like Deadpool is gone from digital stores like Amazon and Steam.
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Deadpool looks funny and the gameplay amusing. I played a few hours of BA:A and found it to be really a huge turnoff. I hate the over-the-shoulder POV and combat was extremely dull. The bosses were repetitive and boring as hell.

 
Thermopyle said:
Yeah, it's a lead-in to s2. Not very long, maybe an hour and a half. A few interesting glimpses of the new characters we'll be seeing, I guess.

Deadpool looks funny and the gameplay amusing. I played a few hours of BA:A and found it to be really a huge turnoff. I hate the over-the-shoulder POV and combat was extremely dull. The bosses were repetitive and boring as hell.
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Batman Arkham: Asylum?

Anyway, skip that one and go straight to City. Combat is much better, you can take on more than one guy at a time in this one. Not too many boss fights, either.

 
tjs09 said:
Batman Arkham: Asylum?

Anyway, skip that one and go straight to City. Combat is much better, you can take on more than one guy at a time in this one. Not too many boss fights, either.
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if he hated arkham asylum he probably won't like city. they're pretty freaking similar. i never understood people who were blown away by city after playing asylum...they're the exact same thing, just city is bigger with slight additions to combat

 
For some reason, I don't get any notification when a new post is made in this thread. Anyone could help me to solve this? Yes, I want my notifications. And yes, I have them in other thread that I'm following.

 
pasports31 said:
if he hated arkham asylum he probably won't like city. they're pretty freaking similar. i never understood people who were blown away by city after playing asylum...they're the exact same thing, just city is bigger with slight additions to combat
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City had Calendar Man. :speaktothehand:

 
pasports31 said:
if he hated arkham asylum he probably won't like city. they're pretty freaking similar. i never understood people who were blown away by city after playing asylum...they're the exact same thing, just city is bigger with slight additions to combat
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This! I played the **** outta Batman AA & AC, they are very similar. The combat is very similar. AA is more constrained and claustrophobic, while AC gives you a nice open city district to glide around. The riddler-trophy puzzles in AC are more demanding (and interesting, imo). I'm not a Batman fan, so I'm not biased by favorite bits of canon. I also thought AC combat was easier (comparing NG+ & NG+). Start with AA imo... harder to go back to after the freer feeling of AC. If you don't like AA I see little reason why you'd like AC.

...am I agreeing with pasports31... how much did I have to drink?

 
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asheskitty said:
This! I played the **** outta Batman AA & AC, they are very similar. The combat is very similar. AA is more constrained and claustrophobic, while AC gives you a nice open city district to glide around. The riddler-trophy puzzles in AC are more demanding (and interesting, imo). I'm not a Batman fan, so I'm not biased by favorite bits of canon. I also thought AC combat was easier (comparing NG+ & NG+). Start with AA imo... harder to go back to after the freer feeling of AC. If you don't like AA I see little reason why you'd like AC.

...am I agreeing with pasports31... how much did I have to drink?
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racing games are the pits

there we go, all is well :D

as long as we can agree that sonic and all stars racing transformed is the best RPG of all time, that's all that really matters

 
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tjs09 said:
Batman Arkham: Asylum?

Anyway, skip that one and go straight to City. Combat is much better, you can take on more than one guy at a time in this one. Not too many boss fights, either.
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I feel in the minority, I loved AA, but really didn't care for AC. I found navigating the city to be a pain, and one too many times I was near my objective, a phone rang, and I instinctively answered it, just to be dragged halfway across the city and then have to make my way back.

 
awestover89 said:
I feel in the minority, I loved AA, but really didn't care for AC. I found navigating the city to be a pain, and one too many times I was near my objective, a phone rang, and I instinctively answered it, just to be dragged halfway across the city and then have to make my way back.
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Oh man, that fucking quest. After a while I stopped answering. Zsasz can kill as much as he wants, I got shit to do.

 
josgba2002 said:
For some reason, I don't get any notification when a new post is made in this thread. Anyone could help me to solve this? Yes, I want my notifications. And yes, I have them in other thread that I'm following.
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Unfollow this thread (upper right corner), then click refollow and check "notify me when new posts are made".
 
wow far cry 3 was only $7.50?  eh, i expect it will drop that low again by next years steam summer sale or maybe next winter or on some crazy amazon sale.

 
bought from amazon over gamefly because 1) avoids any weird issues like the ones gamefly people are having, 2) better customer service in case something weird happens, and 3) $5 EC. 

 
I was naturally at 12 EC, and picked up a few BL2 skins I'd been wanting (using EC as an excuse) to bring it up to 15 EC... one every two days of the promo...

 
awestover89 said:
I feel in the minority, I loved AA, but really didn't care for AC. I found navigating the city to be a pain, and one too many times I was near my objective, a phone rang, and I instinctively answered it, just to be dragged halfway across the city and then have to make my way back.
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They're sidequests. Unless it's listed specifically as your main quest, do not bother. AC doesn't need you to complete everything. AC is all about gameplay (fighting and some puzzles, notably) and quite decent story.

 
I had six coupons, picked up one of the bit.trip games and the teleglitch dlc for a couple cheap ways to get a few more.

I'm thinking 8 should likely be way more than enough, especially when considering the preliminary list (I don't think there was anything there that caught my eye)

 
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