{"id":41545,"date":"2018-08-20T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/324914"},"modified":"2018-08-20T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T20:47:00","slug":"amazon-removes-its-20-percent-preorder-discount-on-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/20\/amazon-removes-its-20-percent-preorder-discount-on-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon removes its 20 percent preorder discount on games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/263522\/Amazon_challenges_retail_game_stores_with_20_discount_on_preorders.php\">Two years after the perk was introduced to Amazon Prime members<\/a>, Amazon has announced that it will be discontinuing its 20 percent preorder discount on\u00a0physical copies of video games on August 28.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pretty big change for Amazon, with\u00a0the decision\u00a0coming\u00a0only a\u00a0few months after Best Buy shuttered Gamers Club Unlocked, a competing service which\u00a0also provided\u00a0a 20 percent discount on games.<\/p>\n<p>The change is essentially\u00a0a reduction in value for Amazon customers, since there no longer seems to be any guarantee of\u00a0saving money. The $10 store credit offer is still less than the estimated $12 shaved off from a regularly priced $60 game.<\/p>\n<p>According to the retailer&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?node=17911060011&amp;=vg63_primevideogames_tc_lp_em&amp;j=6917&amp;sfmc_sub=41056001&amp;l=15_HTML&amp;u=139118&amp;mid=100002038&amp;jb=400&amp;linkCode=sl2&amp;tag=sec2002-20&amp;linkId=dd5ad630e432215ac14984937e195c8d&amp;language=en_US\">updated terms and conditions<\/a>, Prime members will instead receive store credit as an incentive to preorder video games through Amazon, but only preorders of \u201cselect video games\u201d will come with the $10 store credit promotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief:\u00a0Two years after the perk was introduced to Amazon Prime members, Amazon has announced that it will be discontinuing its 20 percent preorder discount on\u00a0physical copies of video games on August 28.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a pretty big change for Amazon, with\u00a0the decision\u00a0coming\u00a0only a\u00a0few months after Best Buy shuttered Gamers Club Unlocked, a competing service which\u00a0also provided\u00a0a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}