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submitted 1 year ago by smeg@feddit.uk to c/gaming@beehaw.org

Howdy pardners, this is a cheeky self-plug for !freegames@feddit.uk, a community I've created to post limited-time full-game free giveaways. It's been going a month or two and I'm already claiming games faster than I can play them, so come and join me and make your what-game-to-play choice paralysis worse!

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[-] myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 42 points 1 year ago

If I have to have a prime subscription to get the game, it's not free IMO

Otherwise a great idea!

[-] Omegamanthethird@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

If I already have a subscription, anything extra is, in practicality, free.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago

You shouldn't assume that everyone is giving money to that pathetic company

[-] Omegamanthethird@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

You shouldn't assume that nobody is.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

I did not. OP did assume that everyone does, by not mentioning that these depend on an active amazon prime subscription.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

Most of them don't, and the ones that do are all tagged with [Amazon]. I made no such assumption!

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

That is cool, thanks for the clarification!

[-] gk99@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Amazon is a storefront, not the subscription. They actually do give out free stuff once in a blue moon, so just saying [Amazon] is not clarification enough. On reddit, subs like this would say "complimentary with Prime" or something like that.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Well if you click on the posts you'll see that I do state that information in the description, I just don't overload the title with it

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

Technically true, though you can start a free trial of Prime and claim all the games, and then (supposedly) they're still yours to keep after the trial expires. A small hoop to jump through, but it should mean free games!

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Depends. Some of the games they give you are on gog. Those you certainly get to keep.

IRC Others are only available as long as you're a prime member.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

According to the game pages themselves:

Games with Prime are free to collect and can be kept forever.

I've not tried cancelling myself, but a quick web search for other people asking this question says yes you do keep them!

[-] HidingCat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

What, no, absolutely not. In fact I recall the games you get via their launcher don't even have DRM on them. I'll check them again at some point.

[-] gk99@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Some definitely do have DRM. I explicitly ended up buying Devil May Cry on Steam despite getting it with Prime because it opened the Twitch launcher every time I tried to play, which messed up Steam Input or whatever I was trying to use at the time.

[-] hogart@feddit.nu 1 points 1 year ago

Doesn't really work if I've had a subscription before, or used said free month some time in the past.

Only issue here is to flag it's on Twitch Prime so everyone has the right expectation.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Can you not create a new account with a new (or alias) email? Or do they want phone number, card, or other less-easily-created details?

The Amazon ones are tagged as such, but there are plenty of other providers with less hoops to jump through!

[-] hogart@feddit.nu 2 points 1 year ago

I haven't tried. That's not for me. I'd rather just buy the game or pirate it. Both are much easier.

[-] Hello_there@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

I thought there was already a piracy community

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 21 points 1 year ago

Lol, this one is for honourable sailors of the king's navy

[-] Arotrios@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Oh boy, have I got some treats in store for you...

Question - is it just video games, or are you looking for tabletop RPGs too?

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ooh, I hadn't considered free tabletop giveaways! Is that a print-at-home sort of thing?

Edit: I misread tabletop RPGs as board games, d'oh! I think somewhere like !rpg@ttrpg.network might be better, but we could have a TTRPG Tuesday or similar.

[-] Arotrios@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Pretty much, although these days a lot of folks find it more convenient to have the rules in .pdf for easy access. There's hundreds available. Here's a listing I had posted last night on the @13thFloor magazine I run over here on kbin - happy to crosspost if you feel it fits.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Ah OK, stuff that's always free isn't really what I made the community for, it's more about grabbing games that are normally paid. I do think that !rpg@ttrpg.network would be a good place top cross-post to though!

[-] Arotrios@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

No worries & thanks for the suggestion.

[-] Vitaly@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Im interested!

[-] loops@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Yeeee ᕕ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ᕗ

[-] HidingCat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for this, already subbed a few weeks back. Managed to snag a few games because of it too!

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