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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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Your welcome everyone ..

@asheskitty .. I was thinking the same. I mean how often does that info actually really get looked at.

@redrum ... I actully enjoy doing it. Keeps me busy. With only 1100 games on Steam I need something to keep busy. Plus there is nothing on sale that I need to backlog so there is plenty of free time for me after work. :)

 
spacejunk said:
GoG beats Steam and Origin.
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What GoG has going for it is often NO DRM & Extra Goodies.

GoG's biggest problem is it lacks an OPTIONAL client-program of some kind that has the kind of functionality & features that a service like Steam provides.

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asheskitty said:
Maybe old old info? I originally bought Mirror's Edge from D2D (pre-Origin).
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I bought Mirror's Edge PC from Retail, long ago - it used the crappy Securom Internet Activation DRM.

I did optionally later activate that up onto Origin.

Before BF3, a lot of EA games did NOT require Origin to run in the background to actually run your game.

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Hey, I still got my Mirror's Edge key for Steam from the EA Origin HB that I ain't activated.

Does that Sream-version have Securom on it, too?

Or does it ONLY use Steam DRM?

 
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asheskitty said:
Tempting... didn't really appeal to me and I wasn't going to be suckered at no $3.74... but two-fiddy I think I might bite (probably cheaper than HIB BTA next year).
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For what it's worth I absolutely adored Brothers. Yes it's more of an "experience" than a traditional "game", but it's an extremely poignant and beautiful one in the vain of something like To The Moon or Journey (although you probably haven't played that, being a PS3 exclusive). If you aren't turned off by the minimal gameplay, it's far and away worth that price and then some! Two of the best hours I've spent with any game in a very long time.

NB4 "2deep4u"

-->Steam Review<--

 
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$2.99 after coupon...woooooooooooooooo!

Cheers,
Tony
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You guys are getting a great deal on this. I bought it from Amazon at about $6 and feel like I got my money's worth. It's about 3 hours long, the achievements are very easy but add a little ambience? to the story. There's really not a point to replay it... though I think I might just like to idle in the beginning village for a while whenever I'm stressed out. It's very peaceful there. More than worth the $3.

 
spacejunk said:
You guys are getting a great deal on this. I bought it from Amazon at about $6 and feel like I got my money's worth. It's about 3 hours long, the achievements are very easy but add a little ambience? to the story. There's really not a point to replay it... though I think I might just like to idle in the beginning village for a while whenever I'm stressed out. It's very peaceful there. More than worth the $3.
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There's a starting village in Mirror's Edge?
 
Wellllppp w/this price I think I'll buy brothers. Was gonna activate my ps+ subscription this month, but now that I own Bioshock Infinite (on xbox and pc), Brothers, and Don't Starve I don't see the point. It seemed like a slam dunk this month before the Don't Starve glitch, but now that I own both that and Brothers it's not really worth it.

 
MrNinjaSquirrel said:
For what it's worth I absolutely adored Brothers. Yes it's more of an "experience" than a traditional "game", but it's an extremely poignant and beautiful one in the vain of something like To The Moon or Journey (although you probably haven't played that, being a PS3 exclusive). If you aren't turned off by the minimal gameplay, it's far and away worth that price and then some! Two of the best hours I've spent with any game in a very long time.

NB4 "2deep4u"

-->Steam Review<--
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You're twisting my arm here... and two hours seems appealingly short.

spacejunk said:
You guys are getting a great deal on this.
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You are aware it was on the $1 tier on the Humble EA Bundle, right? Apparently the DLC is 7 time trials... I was eyeing this for the DLC...

 
pasports31 said:
Wellllppp w/this price I think I'll buy brothers. Was gonna activate my ps+ subscription this month, but now that I own Bioshock Infinite (on xbox and pc), Brothers, and Don't Starve I don't see the point. It seemed like a slam dunk this month before the Don't Starve glitch, but now that I own both that and Brothers it's not really worth it.
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But...DMC.
 
Trusty Mutsi said:
All this hardware talk begs me to ask:

Does anyone else set their graphics as low as possible, just for fun, to see how bad the game can look?

I did that with Mass Effect 2 and Far Cry 2, and it looked like I was playing Playstation 2 versions :)
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Do you also throw the resolution ALL the way down the game's lowest supported res? ;)

 
Neuro5i5 said:
Having bought my share of components on eBay, I can say data storage will never be bought used again.
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Yeah, but just like everything, depends if you ask or research first. I bought one "used" with only 18h of use for half price and its been running 24/7 since 2012. Besides, you can also buy from other sites like "overclock.net" and have the seller test the HDD and give you all that important data such as how many hours have been used etc.

 
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Is anyone having issues redeeming on steam? First try got me an invalid product code, second try said I successfully redeemed

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Looks like steam, or the client, is having major issues, tried to restart it and now it cant even connect.  However going through the webclient shows it did redeem brothers since it says I own it

 
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Lol sorry, system hiccup, buy box should be back soon.

Cheers,

Tony
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Thanks, and bought!

From all the good things I heard about this game, it must deserve jumping to first in line in my backlog.

To everyone buying Brothers (kind of sounds wrong), it is highly recommended to use a controller to play it.

 
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