Amazon US has confirmed today that it is dropping its lucrative 20% discount on pre-ordered video games. The company says this will take place from 28th August. The company does say that they will be giving $10 Amazon credit for select game preorders. Twitch Prime, also owned by Amazon, has also announced that new members won’t be entitled to ad-free viewing. However it says that users can get ad-free viewing on a channel by using your Twitch Prime sub, if the creator has this enabled.
US: Amazon Drops Prime Pre-order Discount And Gives $10 Credit On Certain Games
Booooo.
U mad now ?
You mad bro?.
A little bit to be honest.
Why are you taunting him? This is universally bad news for all gamers…
Not to me. I don’t have that account.
It’s actually a better deal iif the game is less than $50.
Yeah maybe.
Still I want to know the titles of the games they putted online
thats fuckin piss poor lazy
Well that sucks . I pre-order most games on Amazon cus of the discount. Well now at least I’ll save money not buying games day 1
Only nigggers and losers use Prime
Be careful what you say kid.
I’m shaking in me boots.
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Yeah thanks everybody for supporting this mafia company, now they have full monopoly and all the little guys are gone they gonna pump up the prices. Or did you forgot how these (((people))) think in the long term to grab you by the b.
What a fitting name…
They’really basically stripping features whIle raising costs. Sorry – no deal. I’ll just buy games at the store if I’m paying full price.
It works out better if the game is under $50.
Amazon is a Trillion dollar company, there is literally no reason to strip like this to save costs besides the rich being greedy. They should at least raise the wages of their underpaid workers with the extra money they’ll be making from this.
It’s not just Amazon. Best Buy is dropping their gamer’s thingy & GameStop is dropping their Elite Pro. (I keep getting my Elite Pro benefits til my membership expires next year since I already paid for it. I honestly should have tried to extend it by another year (if they allowed it) back when I had the chance.) So another reason they are dropping it is because the competition is. (Or maybe there is something bigger going on behind the scenes? CONSPIRACY THEORY IMMINENT!!! DUN DUN DUNNN!!! lol)
I was afraid something like this would happen after Best Buy dropped their Gamer’s Club stuff, so I’m not terribly surprised. I am disappointed however. I’ll probably still get select physical games from Best Buy, but for the most part I’ll be going back to digital once all my perks run out unless someone else steps up to offer a better deal that kicks these companies back into trying to get customers.
I have a feeling this was designed to fight against people making a new prime trial account every time they want to preorder something.
Nah, they started this to compete with Best Buy’s GCU. Best Buy did it to drive traffic into their store/website and Amazon did it because they don’t want people shopping anywhere but Amazon. 20% is a retailers profit on a video game sale, so both companies were giving games away for free. Best Buy just killed off their program a couple months ago, probably because they weren’t getting enough upsales/cross sales, and now Amazon is following suite. No one wants to give away their profit margin if they don’t have to.
Was great while it latest. Makes me not feel bad for being on my 6th free student account. I’m sad to say I like Amazon but they are greedy af.
I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN! >:/
I PREDICTED IT WHEN BESTBUY DROPPED GAMERS CLUB!
UGH!! :(
SAD DAY…
What would you rather have? 20% off a $40 game or a $10 credit?
These were for preorders which were games that go for 60 bucks. 20% off 60 bucks is 48 bucks. That’s MORE than 10 bucks, dude.
Yeah, it’s sorta better for cheaper games but not many games are lower than 60 and if they are, it;s probably shovel ware or a crap game…
Also kind of Ironic that they own Twitch (a major gaming site) but will now offer virtually nothing for gamers…
So will they charge me $52 for monster Hunter on day of release or $64 because this starts on August 28 when generations ultimate comes out???
If someone paid for a year’s worth of Prime, do they get to keep the 20% off til that year expires? If not, that will be the real crime here! GameStop is at least letting those that paid for Elite Pro keep their benefits til the year they paid for expires. (My Elite Pro doesn’t expire for quite some time since I only got it like 2-3 months ago.)
Meep meep!