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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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Yes, TSW uses Funcom's account-based system.

MMO's = always-online DRM!

EDIT:

Offering both DRM-FREE version + Steam key version like HB's often do = beats ALL.

Best of BOTH worlds.

EDIT 2:

If Steam did beat Ice Cube, I guess Steam had "A Good Day."
Hot girls spanking us males is better than snakeybro spanking mysterd heh

 
This is why everybody who was bitching about Sim City's always online requirement if fuqing stupid. It's NOT a city building game, it's an MMO!
I still think if EA properly titled the game "SimCity Online", gamers just wouldn't have bought the damn thing and went back to SimCity 4.

Since most gamers want offline mode, glad to see SimCity 2013 finally getting such a thing.

 
that why they makingg me leave them as one of their fan the more they destroy ruin windows 8= windows tablet

xlame= stupidness. 360>one windows7 > 8 just saying. microsoft lose me as one of the person use to love i would have got straight a in 2012 for christamas if windows 8 was cllose to 7 instead it was to tablet losersssssssss
I wonder how Microsoft's "Threshold" will turn out (WIndows 9).

 
Do you actually have it? Or are you just going off the hate reviews from its botched release? Because I would say its was easily last years best game after it was all sorted out.
It's trash. EA is like Hitler level evil. They support slavery and the abuse of orphans.

[customspoiler=?]Just kidding EA guy. You know I'm your bitch. If you make it, I will come.[/customspoiler]

 
This is a family friendly thread you shit. I hope you get run over by a tractor trailer and your innards are picked apart by vultures.
BEHOLD! Good old fashioned family fun!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDdxVKIYGls

 
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Ok think I finally skimmed back the last 20+ pages since I last was here .. this thread moves to fast in 15 hours. :)

I have a question about the Syndicate/ Saboteur Bundle.

While updating the post (still waiting for Tony to send me the updated spreadsheet that he has hoping to add more deals to the list :rofl: ) I noticed the Bundle lists Origin as the DRM and the individual pages list the DRM for Syndicate as Origin and Saboteur as Securom.

So is the page out dated and does Saboteur redeem on Origin and does it still use Securom?
actually amazon offers securom securom installer and key-that optionaly activates on origin(like da2 crysis 2 et al)

so you may use either one or both

 
I hope we hear news about Namco soon. PSN has a sale on Enslaved for $5 starting tomorrow and I need to know where I should spend my monies...

 
Because the plan is to only be able to purchase it with Bioware Points (which conveniently you can buy through the EC deals).
So, since ME2 had its own bundle w/ BioWare Points...

So, when's Dragon Age 2 (base game) + BioWare Points for ALL DA2 DLC going on sale? ;)

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actually amazon offers securom securom installer and key-that optionaly activates on origin(like da2 crysis 2 et al)

so you may use either one or both
Most EA-games released BEFORE BF3 do NOT require/force Origin to run in the background while you're actually playing a game.

In the old EA-games days of EADM/Origin (before BF3), Origin was just a digital delivery service.

 
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I hope we hear news about Namco soon. PSN has a sale on Enslaved for $5 starting tomorrow and I need to know where I should spend my monies...
spend ur monies on psn
I'm leaning that way. I would have preferred the PC version if say it were $10 on sale and on EC but cheap vs non-cheap, I think I will go with cheap. It's actually a game I think I will play and not backlog. ikr?

 
I'm leaning that way. I would have preferred the PC version if say it were $10 on sale and on EC but cheap vs non-cheap, I think I will go with cheap. It's actually a game I think I will play and not backlog. ikr?
Wait for the PC version. PS3 version is the worst, like Squirrel said. It won't be that long for the PC version to be $5.

 
I know you're kidding but holy cow, how out of touch are people that think that EA is actually one of the worst?
Here's some of my annoyances w/ EA and their business practices:

BioWare Points - from just being a crappy currency to hardly ever going on sale, bleh!

Always Online DRM in some of their games - i.e. DarkSpore + SimCity 2013 [for now] + C&C4

Never re-releasing games w/ Ultimate Editions anymore

Tons of DLC & Expansions on their games - i.e. Sims series, anyone?

Broken releases -> see BF4.

Not fixing some issues -> i.e. see the issues w/ The Saboteur PC for AMD users

Forcing Origin to run in the background to run most of their games after BF3 (i.e. they're doing what Steam does)

Closing lots of liked/loved studios -> i.e. BullFrog, WestWood, Origin, etc.

DLC issues - i.e. see Ashes complaints of DLC not always working for NFS Most Wanted 2012

Letting IP's rot for a lot of years - System Shock series, Road Rash series, Ultima series, etc.

EDIT:

Some of Tebow's thoughts should be added, since I agree w/ him:

Lack of Madden NFL, NHL and other sports games on the PC.

Closing game-servers down in a matter of no time for some games.

 
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