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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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Motoki said:
Just don't bring the rest of that board over here because there were some real asshats there.

I feel like if we keep talking about them they'll show up, like Candyman or something.
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I'm getting more a pro wrestling vibe. Like Mooby and Bruticis are standing in the ring with you and Idiotekque fresh off of beating down the Diaper Changing Crew, when all of a sudden the music shifts, Jim Ross says, "My God! That's RPGCodex's music!", and Mooby and Bruticis lay down a beat down while revealing they were working for the Codex all along.

(It's been close to two decades since I felt like watching pro wrestling, but I have to admit the WWE is good at the non-surprising surprise backstab.)

 
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gilby said:
I'm getting more a pro wrestling vibe. Like Mooby and Bruticis are standing in the ring with you and Idiotekque fresh off of beating down the Diaper Changing Crew, when all of a sudden the music shifts, Jim Ross says, "My God! That's RPGCodex's music!", and Mooby and Bruticis lay down a beat down while revealing they were working for the Codex all along.

(It's been close to two decades since I felt like watching pro wrestling, but I have to admit the WWE is good at the non-surprising surprise backstab.)
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A post about the WWE without any references to spanking. I don't know if that is good or bad...

 
gilby said:
I'm getting more a pro wrestling vibe. Like Mooby and Bruticis are standing in the ring with you and Idiotekque fresh off of beating down the Diaper Changing Crew, when all of a sudden the music shifts, Jim Ross says, "My God! That's RPGCodex's music!", and Mooby and Bruticis lay down a beat down while revealing they were working for the Codex all along.

(It's been close to two decades since I felt like watching pro wrestling, but I have to admit the WWE is good at the non-surprising surprise backstab.)
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Oh no, leave me out of this. I have never liked wrestling and I never will.

 
Tebow is here whether he is here or not. Tebow will always be here. He haunts our forums...

spankey spnaky heh

 
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Well it finally happened. I was playing Persona 4 and doing some of the Margaret quests and when she refered to Neko Shogun as a strong Persona I somehow scrambled things up in my head and read it as Pokemon. Damn you Nintendo. Damn you Game Freak.

 
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UcanSUKtheFAC said:
but at $2, I feel it's a must-play because of its impact on gaming. It's akin to how I just HAD to go back in time and play superman 64 and ET for Atari, never having played them before, after seeing it win multiple "worst video game ever" awards.

it's like slavery - we're embarrassed by the history, but it must be addressed so as to never have it occur again.
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aw, couldn't handle the analogy? It's OK someone else will bring you up to speed.
 
UcanSUKtheFAC said:
aw, couldn't handle the analogy? It's OK someone else will bring you up to speed.
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No, it's not that, I just think the fact you deliberately play horrible games the fact you have done so ultimately means nothing to anyone but yourself, is rather stupid.

Whatever floats your boat though, I prefer to actually enjoy the games I play.

 
There's something to experiencing horrible games/movies/music/things.  There's an entertainment there.  I mean there's a reason stuff like Rebecca Black's "Friday" was so popular.  It was so bad it was entertaining.  Not for the reasons originally intended, but still entertaining.  

Not sure if the facsucker was going for that angle, but that's why I play bad games sometimes.  Or all the time.  

 
Cheaplikeafox 3.0 said:
There's something to experiencing horrible games/movies/music/things. There's an entertainment there. I mean there's a reason stuff like Rebecca Black's "Friday" was so popular. It was so bad it was entertaining. Not for the reasons originally intended, but still entertaining.

Not sure if the facsucker was going for that angle, but that's why I play bad games sometimes. Or all the time.
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There's this childrens' show called the Rubber Dubbers...my god.

It compounds the problem by having one of the catchiest theme songs in history.

 
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Cheaplikeafox 3.0 said:
Not sure if the facsucker was going for that angle, but that's why I play bad games sometimes. Or all the time.
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Pretty sure his point is "you have to play bad games to enjoy good ones", which I can understand. But going back generations purposely seeking out crap when you could be spending it with games you actually enjoy seems like a waste of time to me. If he/anyone enjoys that though, that's fine then; it's not up to me to dictate how you spend your time, but I don't see how playing Superman64 at this point is going to help you better appreciate good stuff. I play enough bad games by accident, I'm not going to search them out on purpose.

 
MrNinjaSquirrel said:
Pretty sure his point is "you have to play bad games to enjoy good ones", which I can understand. But going back generations purposely seeking out crap when you could be spending it with games you actually enjoy seems like a waste of time to me. If he/anyone enjoys that though, that's fine then; it's not up to me to dictate how you spend your time, but I don't see how playing Superman64 at this point is going to help you better appreciate good stuff. I play enough bad games by accident, I'm not going to search them out on purpose.
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I believe that your obsession with platformers is equivalent to being obsessed with bad games because 9 out of 10 platformers are bad games.

 
Cheaplikeafox 3.0 said:
Really? Cat Jump Simulator and Goat Jump Simulator and Dinosaur Run Simulator and Italian Plumber Jump Simulator and Italian Plumber's Pet Dinosaur Jump Simulator had you hoping for something good?
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We all enjoy different things. I will admit I have played a lot of terrible platformers, but it's a genre I have always loved and continue to do so when I actually find something worthwhile.

At least I'm not playing broken early access zombie games...

 
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MrNinjaSquirrel said:
We all enjoy different things. I will admit I have played a lot of terrible platformers, but it's a genre I have always loved and continue to do so when I actually find something worthwhile.

At least I'm not playing broken early access zombie games...
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Jokes on you. I don't play them. Just buy them. Real CAG right here. Not no fake game playing CAG.

 
UcanSUKtheFAC said:
but at $2, I feel it's a must-play because of its impact on gaming. It's akin to how I just HAD to go back in time and play superman 64 and ET for Atari, never having played them before, after seeing it win multiple "worst video game ever" awards.

it's like slavery - we're embarrassed by the history, but it must be addressed so as to never have it occur again.
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I'm not picking on you, but there seems to be some debate about why this is a bad analogy.

1. Your testimony to playing the bad games explains that you believe it is important because it helps you compare good games to those that are universally accepted as bad.

2. Your analogy says that we must talk about a social wrong-doing in order to avoid repeating it.

Those two positions are not at all alike.

Now, had you said that we must experience slavery so that we can compare it to (and better appreciate) freedom then you'd be a lot closer. Or you could have taken the position that playing bad games helps you to avoid creating bad games. Both of those are actual analogies to parts of your original post, whereas your original just showcases two bad "things".

Having said all of that, I don't believe it is necessary to go out of your way to play bad games. You might find it entertaining to juxtapose the two, but that's a different idea altogether.

When you want to learn to play the piano and write beautiful symphonies, do you study Bach or do you seek out the worst?

 
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Hey. I kinda dig that. Reminds me of early Fiona Apple...sort of.
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It's kinda melancholy, so it has somewhat of the same feel of some of her songs, but Fiona is by far a superior songwriter and a better singer to boot. It lacks a lot of the feeling and emotion that Apple brings out in her songs.

 
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