Amazon PCDD - Important Update New Community Manager Incoming!

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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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walkonshadows said:
Ashes, just to be clear your post 8234 through 8237 are still the go to post for the spreadsheet being sorted by deal date, correct? Are they being updated with newer info as well?
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As linked at the top of that I'm keeping all the late additions in this post -- half so I don't have to resort it, and importantly so CAGs don't need to re-scan the big lists for new info.

Basically read the top of either of my two post-blocks (Chronological or By-Title) to be linked to the other relevant information. I might need to add a new post once I get the Beth/MS deals.

 
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It's not 100% ... There was quite a few games / links to go through :) but I believe this should help.

I tried my best to list the DRM that is on the store page. The games under "None Listed" may have other DRM that is not listed on the Store page or that I did not see on the store page. I did not go through each store page with detail. If the DRM was not listed at the top of the listing I did not attempt to look for it elsewhere on the store page.

If anything needs to be updated or fixed the file is set to "edit" so anyone can edit the file so feel free to edit it as needed.

Amazon PCDD Winter Sale 2013 - DRM Listings (On Skydrive)

Now just to wait for A:CM to flip :)

 
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sunasun said:
Tony, any chance that the You Don't Know Jack Classic Collection can include Steam keys? http://store.steampowered.com/sub/33692/?snr=1_5_9__403
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taylort3 said:
And Tales of Monkey island Pack..
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lostnumberwar said:
Looks like he meant this.
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snakeybro said:
@Tony

I need Enslaved to be $7.49 or in a Namco bundle. pls make it happen.
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r333k0 said:
Tony, is there any chance for getting Lucasarts games to sell digitally(with steam keys of course)? Since Disney is in charge of them, they are the ones you would probably need to talk to, and they don't seem very supportive of PC gaming since no games that they themselves published as Disney (as opposed to Bought from Lucasarts) are on Steam, but...

You got Bethesda to join the Amazony, so we know you got the power. :D

I have all Star wars games that are on Steam (got that collection dirt cheap when it was 66% off) except the Lego ones, but nothing else.

EDIT: It seems that Lucasarts is basically gone. The only thing that remains of them really is their licensing out casual Star wars games. All new Core games are all contracted to EA (Ugh).

Therefore, I think the people to talk to would be Disney Interactive Studios
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No word on any of this yet.

 
It's here. get it now. Aliens Colonial Marines is now 1.99

 
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Wario64 said:
Is it really that limited?
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Not limited the number is just going up rapidly. I have this tool that shows me sales in real time, it hasn't refreshed the past 3 times I've tried to do so. That usually means a lot of people are ordering.

Edit, this response made no sense.

What I meant to say was, the number isn't super limited, meaning we ordered a ton. I knew this was going to be a killer deal, but this is exceeding my already high expectations.

Cheers,
Tony

 
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Never before have I been so happy to plunk down two bucks for a game that has been so savaged on the internet. Aliens Colonial Marines you are mine!

 
hal said:
Never before have I been so happy to plunk down two bucks for a game that has been so savaged on the internet. Aliens Colonial Marines you are mine!
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To be fair, apparently there was a 4GB patch a month or so after launch that improved the game above its initial "sewage" rating.

 
Eh...even at launch A:CM wasn't a bad game, it was mediocre.  The problem was, it wasn't what we were expecting based on the tech demo and the advertising scheme.

 
Mooby said:
We need: Mooby's Sega Pack:

Castle of Illusion

Binary Domain

Hell Yeah

Aliens CM

Typing of the Dead

The Cave

$15 $10 $5 … on the EC list.
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Free after coupon? I doubt that they're going to reverse last time's "no free games" policy. ;)

smurfinaus said:
Yeah but is there a trader who will just require paypal and no bullcrap Must have +25 rep or stuff like that?
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Does such a requirement really matter when you do have over 25 rep?

 
I was just about to walk away from the monitor and got reeled in by all the London 2012 talk. I swear CAG costs me just as much money as it saves. 

 
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hal said:
I was just about to walk away from the monitor and got reeled in by all the London 2012 talk. I swear CAG costs me just as much money as it saves.
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That just means you get twice the games for the same price....I think. I'm not very good at maths.....or spealin.

 
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Not limited the number is just going up rapidly. I have this tool that shows me sales in real time, it hasn't refreshed the past 3 times I've tried to do so. That usually means a lot of people are ordering.

Edit, this response made no sense.

What I meant to say was, the number isn't super limited, meaning we ordered a ton. I knew this was going to be a killer deal, but this is exceeding my already high expectations.

Cheers,
Tony
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How long will the preorder discount be available? I want to get it for christmas :'3

 
Bought A:CM. Should I buy some more games at low cost? I don't have a list to buy unless Nights appears on sale and maybe Ducktales too..

Btw i play a bit of everything.

 
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Yeah, I gotta be honest. Not all that impressed by this list. There's some deals to be had but anything I see on here that caught my eye is all stuff that's been cheaper recently, has been at the same price recently, or has been available in a bundle. Awesome job compiling all the sales though.

Might be in for To the Moon and for Deus Ex HR but that's about it.

 
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