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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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Hi everyone I got a question.

Anyone know any games on Steam that don't really require much thought, and can be played even when sorta tired?

I have most bundle games, and well known games I think.

I am thinking maybe some platformer, or one that can be easily played with a controller. Any Ideas?
OMG Zombies would require a purchase, but it's pretty laid back. Just click on a zombie to shoot it and watch the chain reaction.

Gravity Badgers is pretty laid back. It does require some thought just where you aim the badger (and a mouse) but it's basically Angry Birds Space with badgers.

Chains and Containment are both casual puzzlers.

Casual and controller is actually harder to find though. You ever finish Limbo? It uses a controller and is pretty straightforward.

 
OMG Zombies would require a purchase, but it's pretty laid back. Just click on a zombie to shoot it and watch the chain reaction.

Gravity Badgers is pretty laid back. It does require some thought just where you aim the badger (and a mouse) but it's basically Angry Birds Space with badgers.

Chains and Containment are both casual puzzlers.

Casual and controller is actually harder to find though. You ever finish Limbo? It uses a controller and is pretty straightforward.
why controlers i only use on darkness 2 with keyboard cause my 1 is not working so needd to get level but i never use controller besides darknes 2 and nascar and f12013 otherwis keyboard the way to go

 
I can't believe we collectively forgot Pinball FX2 as a nice late-night game.
Unless it was edited in then Pasports already mentioned it in his first post...

Can anyone with Amazon Prime compare its tv streaming abilites with that of hulu plus? Really tempted to make the switch but apparently I can't get an Amazon app on my bluray player.

 
OMG Zombies would require a purchase, but it's pretty laid back. Just click on a zombie to shoot it and watch the chain reaction.

Gravity Badgers is pretty laid back. It does require some thought just where you aim the badger (and a mouse) but it's basically Angry Birds Space with badgers.

Chains and Containment are both casual puzzlers.

Casual and controller is actually harder to find though. You ever finish Limbo? It uses a controller and is pretty straightforward.
Yeah I beat limbo. A few times, actually. Very good game.

Anyway, I settled on sonic racing transformed for that play session. I guess a racing game is also a good choice for that situation.

 
Yeah I beat limbo. A few times, actually. Very good game.

Anyway, I settled on sonic racing transformed for that play session. I guess a racing game is also a good choice for that situation.
Racing games are great for that. I hesitated to recommend that since not too many CAGs are racing fans.

 
Racing games suck. Just play GTA/SR: you can race and murder people at the same time.
Are you telling me you don't enjoy driving a virtual car in a circle 500 times? What's next, you don't like to watch it in RL either?!?!?

 
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Racing games suck. Just play GTA/SR: you can race and murder people at the same time.
I am goign t osend snakey bro to spank you so hard that u quit and say racing is not my type . mooby go lick ur ego!!!

I'm going to send mutant meatball to kill and eat you after icedragon15 does his work.
FTFY oh really now

Then do donuts in his pooling blood. ;)
what? how bout snakeybro cleveland steamroll him eh h

 
The ~10m mark shows the custom difficulty options. That's pretty neat, IMO. Overall tone is that it's a fantastic port to PC and TB liked it quite a bit. I'm looking forward to giving it a try when it's cheap.
In Nixxes I trust, when it comes to making technical PC ports.

Hopefully, the game's as good as the amount of tons of options-galore that TB shows-off w/ the PC port.

EDIT:

Wow @ the Custom Difficulty Options that TB show-off.

That is freaking fantastic. :D

I hope the game itself is as great as the actual care that was taken into PC porting this thing.

 
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For anyone interested in dead island riptide , it's currently $3.75 in humble store, about 88% off.

Is probably a price mistake, since only Amazon gives us such good deals outside of bundles intentionally, so I'd hop on it.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/p/deadislandriptide_storefront
i fucking hate u now i brough for my friendss why u do this

http://shop.ubi.com/store?Action=cat&SiteID=ubina&categoryID=61933800&pgm=94849300&token=u3tzAZmwt0C7K6e0nrzaQQ== focus sale

 
Yeah I beat limbo. A few times, actually. Very good game.
Anyway, I settled on sonic racing transformed for that play session. I guess a racing game is also a good choice for that situation.
Racing games are great for that. I hesitated to recommend that since not too many CAGs are racing fans.
Hey, I love that game too. Why not play some matchs online and maybe stream it? That would be cool.
 
Sonic Racing Transformed is awesome. I love that game. I'm not even normally a racing game fan (but I buy them anyway; shutup) but I love Sonic Racing Transformed. Multiplayer is loads of fun too.

 
Sonic Racing Transformed is awesome. I love that game. I'm not even normally a role playing game fan (but I buy them anyway; shutup) but I love Sonic Racing Transformed. Multiplayer is loads of fun too.
SRT, so I've heard, is the best RPG around.
 
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I don't know if these are still good, but may be left over from the previous Amazon Giveaway.

Burnout Paradise 8JZZ-SFVR-JN2R-SVMB-FN76
Burnout Paradise B3BB-SN35-DEDZ-D7RW-49SS
Burnout Paradise 5C9H-SQXM-M5QT-ZM75-4QRA
Double Fine 4 Pack CNMJH-3KZLX-GT8BR
Double Fine 4 Pack 7D35C-C7DRH-WBE2W
Metro Last Light 7P97R-FY8EC-BWEXY
Metro Last Light 6ZQL5-MM3VT-C2V9C
 
Dead Island Riptide is on sale for $3.74 on HumbleBundle.com/store
Anybody not have the game already, and actually do want it?
 
Looks like I got it just before they fixed it. I never played the first game, and most of the reviews seemed to give it a bad score because it was more of the same.
 
One day I'll be around for a Metro: LL code drop to go along with this dlc that seems to have appeared in my Amazon account (cheap coupon fodder? don't remember).  Or maybe it will see a decent discount that I can jump on but its discounts have been fairly paltry for the last while.

I told my friend about Riptide being 3.74 (since I'm not interested in it and knew he was) and he told me he had to brb and get some food real quick.  10 mins later he got on and said it was gone.  Serves him right.

 
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