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Pssst, can I interest you in some free video games? (feddit.uk)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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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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[–] 43 points 3 years ago (17 children)

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

Otherwise a great idea!

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    You shouldn't assume that nobody is.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years 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!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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!

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