Howdy pardners, this is a cheeky self-plug for [email protected], 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!

            • smeg@feddit.ukOPEnglish
              7·
              1 year ago

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

              • gk99@beehaw.org
                2·
                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.ukOPEnglish
                  2·
                  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.ukOPEnglish
      6·
      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·
        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.ukOPEnglish
          5·
          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·
          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·
            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·
        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.ukOPEnglish
          2·
          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
            1·
            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.

    • smeg@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

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

    • HidingCat@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year 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.

    • smeg@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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

  • Arotrios@kbin.social
    5·
    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.ukOPEnglish
      2·
      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 [email protected] might be better, but we could have a TTRPG Tuesday or similar.

    • smeg@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      They give away a surprising number of games so it’s definitely worth noting

    • smeg@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year 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!