Hi everyone,

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My name is Tony, I'm the Marketing Manager for the Amazon Game Downloads group.

NOTE - The deals I list here and in the title are already listed here, but I figured I needed to come with some sort of deal for you guys to talk about.

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First and foremost, just want to let you know that one of the head Mods invited me to come post here from Reddit, but I'm not looking to make waves anywhere, so if you, as a community aren't excited about me interacting and posting here then I'll bow out.

With that being said, I'll give you a little background about myself. I joined the Amazon Game Downloads team in August and have been working in the Video Game industry for about 3 years now.

I'm also a 26 year old avid gamer, I'm sure many of the posters here and I share a lot in common. I play League of Legends like it is my job and I still consider FFIV(II in the US) to be the pinnacle of all that is RPG.

I'm here to bring you killer deals on PC downloads, talk with you about video games, and help you with questions/issues that you might have.

Here's a line by line list of games we'll have on sale starting tonight at 12:30AM PST(or thereabouts):

The Witcher 2 - $14.99 (Deal of the Week is extending through 2/29)

Darkness II - $24.99 - Activates on Steam

Payday: The Heist - $4.99 Activates on Steam

Saint’s Row The Third - $24.99 Activates on Steam

Warhammer 40K Space Marine: $14.99 Activates on Steam

Red Faction Armageddon - $4.99 - Activates on Steam

Mirror’s Edge - $4.99

Sim City 4 Deluxe Edition - $4.99

Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II Retribution Complete Pack - $19.99 Activates on Steam

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood - $7.49

NBA 2K12 - $9.99 + $5 off MLB 2K12 Pre-Order

Trine - $1.24

Assassin’s Creed 2 - $4.99

Rockstar Classics Bundle - $14.99 (Max Payne 2, Bully, GTA San Andreas, GTA Vice City, Midnight Club 2)

Here's a link to the full sales page:

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We will also have a TON of Space Marine and Retribution DLC on sale as well for 66% off.

Again, sorry for the repeat of deals, I wanted to make sure I didn't just post a "here I am!" post though :).

By the way, question for you, if we put Stronghold III on sale for $15 who would be excited about that deal?

Cheers,
Tony

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Too bad Assassins Creed doesn't activate on Steam. I'm guessing that's more because of Ubisoft than Amazon or Valve though.

12 years ago
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YES!!! Saint's Row the Third!!! So temped to buy but i must save for SFxT... What do i do!!! Curse you sales!!! Thanks for the info though.

12 years ago
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SR3 doesn't even work in Steam anymore after recent update >:(

12 years ago
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Welcome! And I think it's cool to have you here. I hope we see many more great deals from Amazon! I Appreciate you posting here! Will the 1st assassin's creed be on sale for more than 22% (It's currently 22% off). Do you get to decide like what games go on sale? If you do that's awesome haha!!!

12 years ago
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Dat name. Lok'tar!

12 years ago
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LoL hello to you too

12 years ago
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RE: Stronghold 3, I've enjoyed previous iterations in the series, but this one is so poorly reviewed I wouldn't really consider it until it hits the $10 or less point.

12 years ago
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hey tony, i only just recently discovered amazon sold steam activateable keys but it's a pain figuring out which ones are steam and which ones aren't. any chance there will be a steam activateable games filter in the future?

12 years ago
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On the page of the game it says "Requires Steam Activation". Other that I guess he'll have to answer =p.

12 years ago
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http://www.amazon.com/tag/steamworks?ref_=tag_dpp_cust_itdp_s_t&store=1

hope that helps some... not complete accurate by the looks of it, but still :(

12 years ago
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thanks mate

12 years ago
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Thank you! I can confirm that Darksiders, Zeno Clash, and Red Faction: Armageddon are all Steam redeemable.

12 years ago
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A ot don't though like the Space Marine DLC's...which should be easy...but a couple of thses in this package (Rockstar Classics Bundle - $14.99 (Max Payne 2, Bully, GTA San Andreas, GTA Vice City, Midnight Club 2)) will not work on Steam.

Some times its a guess if Amazon does not list as needing Steam (or able too be activated via Steam). Steam's list says the code must be in a certain format..and you can not see the code format from Amazon

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If you have a question about Steam Activation you should do a CTRL+F on the product page and search for "Steam".

You should see something under system requirements that says "Steam account required for installation and activation".

There are some exceptions that we're still updating, so you have questions you can always ask me.

Cheers,
Tony

12 years ago
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Hi, Tony, is there an e-mail where I can send you a few questions? They're really not Steam related and I don't want to be too off-topic.

This is a nice thread, btw. I'm sure I'll pick up some games I've been waiting for some time.

12 years ago
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Sure, does this site have a PM system? If no look me up on CAG or Reddit.com/R/Gamedeals and I'll toss you an email address.

Cheers,
Tony

12 years ago
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I don't think this site has a PM system. Looked you up on CAG but apparently I can't send PMs there.
My username there is ChangosDown (same as here). As for Reddit, I'm not sure how to use Reddit at all.

12 years ago
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For those following, we connected, and I answered his questions :).

Cheers,
Tony

12 years ago
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He did. 10/10. Will recommend to friends.

12 years ago
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You connected eh? Do I smell ♥? hehe

12 years ago
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Why is there no cart system for Amazon downloads? I have to buy each game as a separate purchase.

Also where's your Steam alternative? :)

12 years ago
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Hey there,

This is something that is definitely on our development roadmap. The reason why it doesn't exist right now is because all digital items live on a separate order pipeline than physical goods, because we don't have warehouses and actual physical products.

There's quite a bit more technical detail to it that I don't understand, but It is definitely something we are aware of and are working towards improving.

As for a Steam alternative. What amazon does really well is help people discover the stuff they want. We want to keep doing that without dictating where you can use that stuff :).

Cheers,
Tony

12 years ago
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me too. for dlc, i have to type my cc info again and again.

12 years ago
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Oh, Amazon doesn't accept PP. Too bad for Amazon, I guess.

12 years ago
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Paypal and Ebay are direct competitors to Amazon. Amazon has their own Amazon Payments similar to Paypal.

12 years ago
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Only CC is stupid... most germans doesn't have a CC.

12 years ago
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Taking into account that these deals are US-only, I doubt they're going to care about Germans not being able to buy these games. ;)

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Doesnt paypal offer a service liken to credit cards or some such? Or some kind of account number offered? Couldnt you throw those into Amazon's system?

Paypal is such a horrid service from my experience with it.

12 years ago
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paypal is bad but there isnt any better service

12 years ago
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when can we use real address(not a fake us address) to buy download games from amazon?

12 years ago
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Tony has already answered this one further up the page. ("We're legally obligated (for a TON of reasons ranging from contracts to taxes) to only sell to people with US billing addresses.")

12 years ago
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Amazon has just been destroying Steam and other sites with their deals lately. Love you guys, keep it up! <3

12 years ago
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Thanks Gummy. We're certainly trying to bring awesome deals.

Cheers,
Tony

12 years ago
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Stoked for The Darkness 2! Thanks for the heads up Tony!

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Woohoo! More Darkness :) :). This is a big test for us (a discount like this on such a newer title) so I'd really like to have a good story to tell about it when I try to pitch stuff like this in the future...tell your friends :).

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I was so excited about Payday.. Now I see that it's not avaible in Germany.. :/ Oh well. Nice deals you have there.

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the key will be for US version of the game so it should activate in Germany without problems if you manage to get it.

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except some games that require VPN to activate.

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Not necessarily. These has been at least one game with region-locked keys being sold as an Amazon DDL. (Civ V iirc.)

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Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood price from link is $24.44, and from this thread is $7.49?

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Deals haven't started. They start as 0030 PST or 0830 GMT...

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Sale starts in 1-1.5 hours :)
Cheers,
Tony

12 years ago
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Hey Tony, can you show Valve how to coupons properly....Amazon's $5 off coupons rocked. Steam's Christmas one's were a joke...literally.

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Lol thanks for the compliment. I'm working on some cool stuff specifically for those coupon users again in the future, and then we'll definitely be looking at ways to replicate the awesomeness of that promotion again :).

Cheers,
Tony

12 years ago
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steamgifts truly is an awesome site if Tony's posting here. Honest, upfront and doesn't try to upsell.

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Personally, id prefer there wasnt digital coupons for an online site. Id prefer if they just gave people an automatic 5 off instead.

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And thus, this test...end of January we tested coupon usage, this month we're testing killer discounts on some newer titles, namely The Darkness II and Saint's Row. We'll compare notes after and see which worked better.

Cheers,
Tony

12 years ago
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Hello Tony and welcome to the site. I welcome the increase in the core games that amazon offers on the game downloads store. :) I have been a Game Downloads customer since 2010 and let me tell you that the improvements have been nothing but for the better :) Personally there are some issues still with the product descriptions and the interface in general that I feel need to be resolved. However, with regards to the deal prices, I have nothing to say other than a job well done. I have a few comments and questions I would appreciate to be addressed. I am khergit on CAG. I would appreciate it if you would contact me. Cheers.

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I can't send you a message on CAG for some reason, can you PM me? Happy to toss you my email address so we can chat, but I'm reticent to due so over a public forum due to past experience (lots of crazy, unproductive, emails flooding my box).

Cheers,
Tony

12 years ago
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For some reason I cannot PM you either... I sent you a friend request, hopefully that may solve the problem of not being able to pm.

12 years ago
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Tony-

Why doesn't Amazon allow me to use an Amazon Payment balance on PC game downloads? I can purchase a boxed version and have it mailed, but not a direct download.

Would love to see this changed... I use amazon mturk to fund my game purchases in between paychecks :)

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Totally hear you, for the most part if the question is, "why can I buy X physically using Y functionality but not digitally?" The answer is generally that we're on a completely different ordering system due to lack of inventory, warehouses, COGS, all that stuff.

We're plugging through the functionality but it takes time to overhaul an order system the size of ours. One good example is "Pre-Orders", when I started in August they didn't exist for Game Downloads. We knew this was a "must have" and the team had been working for months to push the functionality live.

TLDR - We totally agree and have teams of people working on making the experience better :)

Cheers,
Tony

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Sweet, glad to know this might be a possibility in the future. Thanks for the quick response!

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Hi m8!
I have question. I want to buy Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II Retribution Complete Pack but there isn't any info about STEAM. There is only "Internet connection required for online Games for Windows LIVE play" but on other WH40K retribution is said that it need STEAM. Soooooo? I need to buy 2 things : WH40K ret + all dlc pack , or I can buy just that complete pack and it will be work on STEAM?

Annnnnnnd, don't know that u can say it to me, but... WH40K retr. got some kind of region lock?

Cheers!

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Good questions :).

No clue about the region lock sorry :(.

As for Steam, yep, both components of the complete pack activate on Steam. Basically when you buy it we'll drop two items in your library, each will have its own Steam key.

Cheers,
Tony

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Tony, any chance for Dead Island @ 4.99 XD ????

12 years ago
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If that happened, I'd buy 4. :D

Unfortunately, I think I read in the CAG thread that they won't be discounting Dead Island at all.

12 years ago
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newegg sold them off for 10 dollars. they were wiped out of their entire inventory in a matter of hours if I remember correctly.

12 years ago
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Payday only for $4.99!

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fuuuuuuuuu, i just bought W40H Retribution gold pack instead of complete pack ... bye bye 10 bucks ;/
Anyone for W40K II GOLD edition? ;)

12 years ago
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Assassins Creed Brotherhood Deluxe for 75% off - $9.99

edit: wasn't in the list above...

12 years ago
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I see no point in buying single player non-steam games

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purchased a lot of games for me and my friends.

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Guys it seems nobody said anything about it but:

Darksiders is 5$ in this sale and it's a steamworks game so you can activate on steam!

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