Gaming @beehaw.org smeg @feddit.uk 12mo ago

Pssst, can I interest you in some free video games?

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!

New Communities @lemmy.world smeg @feddit.uk 1y ago

Free Video Game Giveaways

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Patient Gamers @sh.itjust.works smeg @feddit.uk 1y ago

I’ve created a community for free game offers

feddit.uk /c/freegames

Patient Gamers @lemmy.ml smeg @feddit.uk 1y ago

I've created a community for free game offers

feddit.uk /c/freegames

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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!
- If I already have a subscription, anything extra is, in practicality, free.
  
  You shouldn't assume that everyone is giving money to that pathetic company
- 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!
  
  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.
  
  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.
I thought there was already a piracy community
- Lol, this one is for honourable sailors of the king's navy
Fuck amazon. These aren't "free"
- 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.
- 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
  
  I'm not giving the site ANY traffic or userbase #s
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?
- 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.
  
  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.
Im interested!
Yeeee ᕕ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ᕗ
Thanks for this, already subbed a few weeks back. Managed to snag a few games because of it too!

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