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

    I thought there was already a piracy community

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

    Fuck amazon. These aren't "free"

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Since many of us are subbed anyway, they're still something of value that one doesn't have to pay extra money for. And it's really easy to forget about them, so smeg's community is doing a nice service for the rest of us.

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

    All the ones not from Amazon are, and if you want you can just create a free Prime trial, claim all the free games, keep them indefinitely, and give them no money

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

    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?

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

    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.

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

    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.

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    • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Im interested!

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    [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Yeeee ᕕ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ᕗ

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    • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

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

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago

    Roughly every week but I've not really noticed an exact pattern. I believe Lemmy lets you subscribe to a community as an RSS feed so you could use that as a notification if you can get it working!

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