Amazon Restricting Access to Some Video Games for Prime Members Only....

Amazon top, the e-commerce massive's paid subscription programme, is now proscribing get entry to to a part of its very own stockpile of video games, it has been discovered.

games consisting of Grand theft vehicle V, FIFA 16 and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege are to be had "solely for high contributors", the website online says if you try to shop for it from Amazon, the vendor. in case you do not have a membership, you will now ought to inn to buying it from a 3rd birthday celebration seller.

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this is a ways from well-known even though. much of Amazon's collection stays outdoor the world of top-best and a few titles which might be confined in a single region (Rainbow Six Siege in the uk, for example) are available with none regulations some other place (for every body within the US). The website does not provide any info on why this discrepancy exists, and the way the prime-only titles are being determined. it's without problems feasible that Amazon is trying out this method with well-known titles to gauge its success in attracting new subscribers.

The "exclusively for top individuals" alternate isn't some thing all of a sudden, to be honest, in case you've been following reviews across the internet. As a ways again as January 2015, Amazon users have seen a model of the message, being implemented to a whole variety of merchandise from external tough drives, Blu-rays, vinyl and Kindles. it's simplest now kicked in for video games, it seems.

Amazon has yet to carry its top club to India, although it turned into extensively suggested it would by the stop of 2015. And when it does ultimately arrive here, supplying reductions and quicker transport on products could easily tempt customers to fork over cash for a yearly membership, even though it'd in the long run depend on how stated membership is priced.

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