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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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indef said:
Any CAG reviews on ACIV? Kinda got burned out after Brotherhood and skipped Revelations & III. Tempted by IV because pirates.
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It's my game of the year, I played single player for 96 hours including DLC and wished there was more. 3 was a major disappointment.

Cyset said:
I was told to skip brotherhood and 3... I've been halfway done with 2 for like 5 years now. I just can't get back to it. I do own brotherhood and rev though do to cheap deals... Thinking I will get back to ac2. I never do.
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Don't skip anything but 1 and 3.

 
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified should be $2.50 with EC coupon now. Waiting for a pricematch...

 
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poxi said:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DYBBE1Q - $12.50 at 50% off. Steam has it at 75% off.
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As far as I know, Amazon matches the price, not the percentage (at least they have in the past). This one will likely be matched down to 12.50, unless there's some surprise generosity from the publisher.

EDIT: Ninja'd by Fox. He even used suspiciously similar wording. Get out of my head, Fox!

 
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Idiotekque said:
I leave and this is what has become of pictures and memes on CAG? Shit, guys...
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yeah, without your stabilizing presence, this place went to shit.

ps. welcome back :D

UcanSUKtheFAC said:
-$19.99 for Sim City? They're paying us to play it now? Wow desperate much EA?
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sweet, so that would make it -24.99 after ec coupon. :whee:

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Hey the new couch in the living room is freaking awesome right? Love the pleather right?

Whoops!
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wow, wonder who will have the balls to ignore tony in his own thread for quoting picture quotes.

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Anyone who knows me can see this for the dirty, dirty lie that it is. I only eat Bacon Egg & Cheese breakfast sands.

Cheers,

Tony
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you are a wise man, Tony.

ps, was able to send you another friend invite on Steam.

 
Anyone tried The Bureau dlc?  Specifically Code Breakers and Hangar 6 R&D?  Tempted to get them both for a little under $2, anyone have any recommendations for or against?

Awesome at people getting banned on Uplay for entering too many wrong codes.  Thats how it should be done imo, introduce a little bad to the good, keep people on their toes.

 
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Well Take 2 on the UPlay keys..  no missing keys this time.

It's possible some were taken earlier and people didn't say but I think people mostly got banned for trying

Prince of Persia - The Forgotten Sands
        POP-XR8X-TBYD-T6MP-GVBJ
        POP-8TV8-FL7Y-LYEA-7P9P
        POP-MCRT-DAXE-UB4K-U8MT
        POP-XAUY-HTQ7-JWLK-MMMY
        POP-4AHQ-DTUX-CNXN-MQ7X

Silent Hunter 5 - Battle of the Atlantic
        SHP-UTXA-CJMJ-JLPP-UE6P
        SHP-RX8Y-HM4F-PFL7-B8AN

  Enjoy

 
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bureau flipped   , lol looks like T2 guy liked the vid after all :p

even though not nearly good as before, EC wasnt that bad after all

there were at least 10 lowest price ever

 
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glennfrank said:
There's a huge part of me that wants The Bureau at this price.. but I am fighting it - especially since I haven't even played XCOM:EU yet..
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Make sure you play EW, not base EU. EW adds a ton, IMO, and I don't think the game would have been varied enough without the elements EW through in.

Bureau is not really connected to EW at all, so it doesn't matter if you play in any particular order.

 
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Thermopyle said:
Make sure you play EW, not base EU. EW adds a ton, IMO, and I don't think the game would have been varied enough without the elements EW through in.

Bureau is not really connected to EW at all, so it doesn't matter if you play in any particular order.
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Having played EU when it came out and am still holding out for a good price on EW, I'll say that EU was plenty fun all on its own. I don't think having EW is a necessity, though if you only plan to run through the campaign once, you'll probably want to get EW now, as it's all integrated into EU's campaign, Civ style.

 
Eldredpe said:
Having played EU when it came out and am still holding out for a good price on EW, I'll say that EU was plenty fun all on its own. I don't think having EW is a necessity, though if you only plan to run through the campaign once, you'll probably want to get EW now, as it's all integrated into EU's campaign, Civ style.
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I felt like the vs Human aspects of the story and battles added a necessary element of variety to the combats, and the covert mission stuff plus the meld gave you enough variety to feel like your soldiers had more going on. I'm not saying the game would have been worthless without it, but I do think I wouldn't have enjoyed it near as much without those elements.

 
Thermopyle said:
Make sure you play EW, not base EU. EW adds a ton, IMO, and I don't think the game would have been varied enough without the elements EW through in.
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An XCOM fan should play both. They provide quite a different experience. Mind you, an XCOM fan would have already played EU a year ago so... :D

 
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[–]bucks14 - 31 minutes ago



Tony, will Far Cry 3 be on sale at any point?


[–]TvacgamerAmazon Marketing Manager - 26 minutes ago


Probably not in January. Cheers, Tony


:cry: I was so hoping for FarCry 3 to be part of Tony's big update..  now I don't have much to hope for from Ubisoft's update..

 
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Tony already said there's no big update today.  The big update for reddit was the Rockstar deals because they didn't know about it.  Pretty sure Ass Creed IV is the only Ubisoft deal getting added to the EC.  

 
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