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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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Rock Bottom said:
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I've been on your friend list for a while now.....
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I can not be held responsible for my Swiss cheese memory or an apparent inability to search properly. (I still can't find you. :oops: Are you going by just Rock?)

asheskitty said:
How? I've added a ton of [really nice people] in order to invite them to groups. ;)
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Go to the user's profile and select "More" and "Invite to join your group".

 
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Neuro5i5 said:
I can not be held responsible for my Swiss cheese memory or an apparent inability to search properly. (I still can't find you. :oops: Are you going by just Rock.)

Go to the user's profile and select "More" and "Invite to join your group".
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New pet peeve... friends who change their steam-name and expect an invite... FFS... keep your normal handle at the front and add whatever you damn like after.

 
Naked Snake Eyes said:
I bought several 39 cent DLCs for this? :???:
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Quite frankly, the whole cheap dlc thing is probably the biggest constraint on the entire promotion. Amazon obviously isn't going to give away five dollars to people for every tiny purchase. So the entire EC promotion just becomes another series of sales for Tony to negotiate. If he does bring it back next year, I hope it is restructured to work in a different way and not come across as a $5 discount that isn't really possible.
 
Naked Snake Eyes said:
I bought several 39 cent DLCs for this? :???:
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Yeah… I definitely bought a few small items for the same reason. Oh well, there's still a couple weeks left, and even if nothing happens, live n' learn, right?

….WRONG, WE THROW A HISSY FIT UNTIL TONY AGREES TO BEAT UP THE SEGA REPS AND GETS THAT GOSHDARNED SEGA GENESIS PACK!!!

 
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Amazon DVG Deals said:
Hey guys,

I had to go home early yesterday due to illness. I'm still home feeling super crappy so I will likely be sleeping most of the day. Just a heads up.

Cheers,

Tony
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Take care of yourself. I just finished crawling back to reality after a nasty flu. It's going around.

If it gets worse, don't do what I did and try and tough it out, just go get antibiotics.

 
If you're interested in BL2 GOTY I wouldn't buy it for $25.  It was $15 on getgames for over a week, plus the mac version seems like it sees sales fairly frequently for whatever reason (its steamplay).

I'll take an invite to the BL2 group if they're still going out, especially if people are running the raid bosses (I'm lvl 52 and my ocd DEMANDS I do those raid bosses for the side quest achievements).  Name is same as what it is on here, and I'll friend someone if its needed sometime tomorrow.  Its crazy how sitting in the hospital all day can exhaust you without you actually doing anything while there.

Edit:  Thanks!  That was so fast I didn't even have time to pass out!!

 
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Master Miguel said:
If you're interested in BL2 GOTY I wouldn't buy it for $25. It was $15 on getgames for over a week, plus the mac version seems like it sees sales fairly frequently for whatever reason (its steamplay).

I'll take an invite to the BL2 group if they're still going out, especially if people are running the raid bosses (I'm lvl 52 and my ocd DEMANDS I do those raid bosses for the side quest achievements). Name is same as what it is on here, and I'll friend someone if its needed sometime tomorrow. Its crazy how sitting in the hospital all day can exhaust you without you actually doing anything while there.
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Invite sent!

 
Haven't you guys gotten invite-spam to random Steam groups from random Steam users? Randomly? Valve mighta since put the kibosh on that tho.

 
dfg said:
Haven't you guys gotten invite-spam to random Steam groups from random Steam users? Randomly? Valve mighta since put the kibosh on that tho.
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I get random ass group invites and friend invites from suspiciously new accounts on a nearly regular basis.

 
This EC sale only Brothers A tale of two sons purchase for me. It's great game and I've beaten it with perfect achievements (which wasn't hard)

But the majority of the EC is poor. Will there be another offerings or the rest of my coupons are wasted?

 
zeroxxx said:
This EC sale only Brothers A tale of two sons purchase for me. It's great game and I've beaten it with perfect achievements (which wasn't hard)

But the majority of the EC is poor. Will there be another offerings or the rest of my coupons are wasted?
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There is still hope. I'm guessing there will still be a couple of surprises.

 
I seem to remember Tony mentioning Pac-Man DX popping up on EC, but nothing since. Did I miss it or are details still forthcoming?
 
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asheskitty said:
New pet peeve... friends who change their steam-name and expect an invite... FFS... keep your normal handle at the front and add whatever you damn like after.
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Also, list your CAG username in your Steam profile, especially if under a different username.

spoderman said:
Glad I didn't buy anything just to get EC credit.
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This, basically. Though without the EC credits I might have preferred to wait for a Steam sale on Risen 2 DLC so I could use gabenbucks.
 
gilby said:
Also, list your CAG username in your Steam profile, especially if under a different username.


This, basically. Though without the EC credits I might have preferred to wait for a Steam sale on Risen 2 DLC so I could use gabenbucks.
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oh really now i can be both jk um just erase everything after first word then u got it heeh

 
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