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

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Yeeee ᕕ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ᕗ

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

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

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You shouldn’t assume that nobody is.

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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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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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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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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!

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I thought there was already a piracy community

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

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