It looks like Amazon is really serious to fight against Steam! Haha. Amazon offering 75% Mafia II $7.49 http://www.amazon.com/2K-Games-40465M...afia-II-Download/B004774ISM - 77% Deus Ex: Human Revolution $6.99 http://www.amazon.com/DeusExHuman...evolution/B005HRZ29K/ - Steam offering 50% Mafia II $14.99 http://store.steampowered.com/...app/50130/ - 40% Deus Ex: Human Revolution $17.99 http://store.steampowered.com/app/28050/ -
I've gotten some really good deals on Amazon in the past plus they often have the Steam versions of the game. They have a whole section dedicated to downloadable games.
Amazon really knocked it out of the park this summer. They swooped in when Steam was lagging on its sale start date AND offered steam codes for a majority of their games.
Use a US billing address and you can buy from Amazon too. There are no repercussions.
Baranga
This. I live in Panama and I use a fake US billing address for buy in Amazon. Thankfully my country uses the US Dollar so I don't know if that will affect people that uses other kind of currencies.
Use a US billing address and you can buy from Amazon too. There are no repercussions.
Miroku32
This. I live in Panama and I use a fake US billing address for buy in Amazon. Thankfully my country uses the US Dollar so I don't know if that will affect people that uses other kind of currencies. I live in Austria(EU)...and we have Euros...i think NFS Shift 2 was 19.99 $ on Amazon...when the billing paper from Visa came at the end of the month...thet charged me around 15 euros...or something...They couldnt be more FAIR!!!
Amazon really knocked it out of the park this summer. They swooped in when Steam was lagging on its sale start date AND offered steam codes for a majority of their games.
roulettethedog
SO while Steam may have been lazy, they still get a cut of others sales? Wish I was in Steam's shoes.
There's a reason Gabe is a billionaire and EA wanted a slice of the action.
The cool thing about Steam is they were doing this long before there was competition. GoG, Gamersgate and other digital distribution kinda pushed competition a bit, but not much from what I could tell. Origin tried to do it, failed, then talked crap about Steam for doing it. Now Amazon has picked it up and seem to be doing pretty well so far.
Honestly, I don't know if the prices will go any lower than they already are but I'm glad more companies are starting to realize if done right, their profits go up immensely (and as a nice side effect their customers get insanely cheap games).
SO while Steam may have been lazy, they still get a cut of others sales? Wish I was in Steam's shoes.
roulettethedog
As far as I am aware Steam does not get a cut of anything unless it is purchased from the Steam store. So if you buy a game from Amazon that can be redeamed on Steam then all the money goes to Amazon, none of it goes to Steam.
As others have said "kudos" to Amazon but it is useless to me since I don't live in the US. I also do not feel comfortable with faking a US billing address. So unless Amazon wants to cater for the rest of the planet then Steam will be my goto place for sales.
As others have said "kudos" to Amazon but it is useless to me since I don't live in the US. I also do not feel comfortable with faking a US billing address. So unless Amazon wants to cater for the rest of the planet then Steam will be my goto place for sales.
charmingcharlie
They're aware of the loophole and don't do anything about it specifically because they want to cater to you in the best way possible. Otherwise they'd have to conform to tax office regulations, which leads to Steam-like retarded pricing for non-US customers.
Thats all well and good in the US. Amazon seem to have forgotten the UK as per usual. :(acanofcoke
Im from EU and buy games from amazon without problems, just pull up US map drop your finger on it and get the zip for the city and bang your in business.
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