Amazon UK to Stop £2 Prime Discount on Game Pre-Orders

If i have happened to pre-order then yes this has been an added bonus. But i do so very rarely and as such wont miss it too much. It is a shame though. Seems to be amazon are encouraging people to make more use of their twitch prime service.

Of course none of this has mattered whilst i have been unable to preorder first party ps4 games from amazon...

I guess I will wait for a later discount for most games if they don't offer the pre-order discount anymore.

Perhaps it has something to do with Germany leading the way on banning pre orders with no set date maybe I don't know

I'll be honest, never knew this was a thing. I rarely preorder these days anyways. Especially at £40+ 😂

@Jake3103 Don't forget Shopto. I'm amazed they ship to European countries for not additional cost.

Arrogant Amazon is back.

What I noticed is that some games suddenly became 'currently unavailable' so you can't pre-order them to take advantage of the discount before it's phased out (and you could previously, I know because I have lots on my wishlist).

I rarely pre-ordered from Amazon - not that I am a Prime member anyway. I am forced to order a lot from Game as they tend to have the majority of 'limited' editions exclusively. Others may have the most expensive collectors edition but Game tend to have the version above the standard which is generally my 'preferred' edition. Games like H:ZD and GoW for example had the limited edition steelbook versions only at Game...

If I can though, I do tend to prefer ShopTo, Game Collection and Simply Games - I always check these first...

I know people hate GAME, but that’s my go to for pre-orders. I’ve got GAMEelite, which nets me back £5 in rewards points & I get double trade in value if I trade in towards a new release (or pre-orders).

I don’t remember the last time I preordered with Amazon.

No point having any market loyalty, I use a comparison web site to check who is cheapest. As others have said, base.com works out good value a lot of the time. If I've got games to trade in, I use game as you get 25% extra trade in value when you pick up a pre-order in shop.

@Jake3103 didn't shopto have a big breach of credit card data a few years ago too? A lot of people used them on a forum I use until that happened.

A quick google suggests that was nine years ago..

@Jake3103 Thanks for the reply. I just compared prices of some games and you're right. Shopto isn't as cheap as it used to be.

Also, I wasn't aware of the Game collection. I just bought Nino Kuni 2 (The King edition), which costs twice as much on amazon and shopto. I cancelled my amazon order. I owe ya!

Wow you guys only got a £2 discount?! In the states we get 20% off or $12 on a normal price game. Im sure they will be axing that get soon too. I'm all digital on the ps4 so doesn't effect me personally but does suck for those still clinging to physical

The odd time I pre-order I usually use Simply Games or Shopto here in the UK. Prices are good and they often deliver a few days before the game is released.

Haven't used Amazon for games for a few years and the rare times I do pre order I use shopto because I usually get it a day early. But agree with others that Shopto are not as competitive as they used to be I have slowly moved to base and gamecollection

US still has the 20% - just checked DQXI - but even that probably won't last forever since Best Buy discontinued GCU. Now people who already had GCU had I think up to 2 years left so the discount may hang around awhile longer in the US.

But once it goes away I doubt I'll pre-order anything. That $12 on a $60 game meant a lot if I was planning on trading it in anyway. For example God of War cost me $48 and I traded it in for $39 at Gamestop when I was done playing it. They had a trade-in deal going on. But it wound up being a $9 rental for 3 weeks. And I kept the box b/c I liked the artwork. $12 makes a difference, but even the cheapskate that I am would barely notice $2.

Of course the way games keep coming out incomplete - see Spiderman and Shadow of the TR, not to mention NNK2 and it's vaporware $20 season pass - means there's even less games worth pre-ordering as I like waiting for the complete product. DQXI happens to ship that way, no DLC in Japan and it's been out for a year, hence why I checked that game.

Yet another reason not too use amazon. Even with the discount most places are cheaper.

I activated a free trial of Prime once just to buy Destiny The Taken King collection for half price. After it was delivered I immediately cancelled. How'd you like them apples, Amazon?

i wonder if this has something to do with Sony pulling their pre-orders from Amazon a few months back, what if Sony didn't want Amazon to give the discounts for pre-orders of their games?

it would explain why it happened

This is likely a precursor to Amazon dropping the 20% discount here in the states as well. If so, I'm gonna have to think extra hard about whether I'll be renewing Prime, especially with it going up to $120 next year. If you up the price and then start taking benefits away that's not a good look Amazon, not at all.

@Thrillho yeah and i haven't trusted them since my payment details was compromised (almost 3 grand was taken and my bank had to intervene) and i would never trust them again, i've also had games not turning up when i've ordered from them.

i've never tried the other sites tbh and i've always ordered from amazon but recently, their prices are not very competitive and delivery is very slow so i've started to buy from agros as their prices are more cheaper than amazon with included delivery, just walk in and get the game day one, that works out for me.

i don't and would never purchase prime, it really is a rip off.

@redd214 yeah the discount of £2 really is menial when they are asking for £139 a year to get your purchases delivered faster, their aggressive approach trying to sell prime to their customers is infamous too.

No big deal for me. Their prices are usually lower than anyone else anyway. I always buy from them or TheGameCollection.net. I haven't bought from GAME for many years now. I've also stopped using ShopTo as their prices prices have been creeping up for quite a while, and they no longer offer the value they once did.

@huyi £139 for Prime? On what planet? It's £79.

We dont even have a Dutch Amazon branch so i never order at Amazon. 😁

@huyi well I order maybe 20 to 30 times a month from Amazon so prime is definitely worth just for the Fast shipping alone. Prime video and discounts are just icing on the cake but I see what you're saying.

@Paranoimia ah i see, i do remember being that expensive or maybe not but still, the value is not great with prime either way.

@huyi It's much like PS Plus, in that the value depends how much use you make of it.

If you only use PS Plus for online gaming, you may not see it as great value. If you take all the games each month and buy a lot from the store, the value increases dramatically.

With Prime, if you don't order a lot from Amazon, it's not worth it. If you do, it is. If you watch Prime video or listen to Prime Music, or use the storage, even moreso.

With both services, it's not that there is no value, it's that the value differs from person to person, depending on what use they make of it.

in my case it's not really much value for me but for other it may do i guess.

Yeah, ive cancelled my Prime, not only does the same day delivery usually not deliver to the next day, the TV service is not great, and now this... Nah thanks