smeg

@smeg@feddit.uk

Profil ze zdalnego serwera może być niekompletny. Zobacz więcej na oryginalnej instancji.

Pssst, can I interest you in some free video games? (feddit.uk) angielski

Howdy pardners, this is a cheeky self-plug for !freegames, 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,

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!

smeg,

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

smeg,

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 might be better, but we could have a TTRPG Tuesday or similar.

smeg,

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 would be a good place top cross-post to though!

smeg, (edited )

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!

smeg,

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

smeg,

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!

smeg,

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

smeg,

No problem with that, plenty of indies on IndieGala and itch.io to claim instead

smeg,

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!

smeg,

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

smeg,

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,

Look at the list of banned countries. Do you think those countries have many casinos?

smeg,

When I first played CK2 I had a revolt before the tutorial had taught me how to fight a war.

smeg,

This is the first one of these steam deck competitors that actually looks like it’s taken notes on the competition: trackpad like a deck, joycons like a switch, back buttons, a kickstand; much more interesting than one of the ones that looks like they’ve just stuck a screen on an xbox controller. The deck’s big feature is its software though and this runs windows, so they better have a good plan for how to make it performant without costing the world!

Steam Deck VS rivals

I was interested in buying a Steam Deck… Until I discovered all the (apparently) better alternatives. Asus Rog Ally, OneXPlayer, Aya Neo etc… I like the idea of an handheld console and obviously I would like to have a device that can run almost everything, so the Windows based handhelds seem better than the Steam Deck. Is it...

smeg,

it’s a machine that runs limited Steam games

This is not true though, it’s a full PC which you can install whatever you want on, which just happens to have a very convenient way to run most steam games on

smeg,

I didn’t say all, I said most.

smeg,

Companies do things for money, people do things they’re passionate about

smeg,

This is why the last Nintendo I used was a Nintendo GameCube

What do you mean by “this”? That companies release new versions of consoles?

smeg,

I’m fully well aware of the benefits of PC gaming (I’ve not bought a console for a decade and I run a community for free PC game giveaways!), but you can’t really get mad at a console company releasing a new version. The point of a console is to be a fixed, known piece of hardware that children can use without needing to tinker with settings, and obviously they’re going to want to up the version of things every few years as technology progresses!

smeg,

You don’t need to buy a state of the art PC though. You can play most indies on a ten year old laptop, and you can build a good enough PC for the same price as a console and all its peripherals. The real savings are in the software though, you don’t need to pay full whack for games when you have steam sales, free giveaways, and the ability to play anything that anyone has made for the last few decades!

smeg,

I’m late to the party but I created !freegames if you’re still looking (and no, I didn’t know about the lemmy.ml one at the time!)

  • Wszystkie
  • Subskrybowane
  • Moderowane
  • Ulubione
  • rowery
  • giereczkowo
  • lieratura
  • Blogi
  • test1
  • muzyka
  • Spoleczenstwo
  • slask
  • Psychologia
  • ERP
  • fediversum
  • motoryzacja
  • Technologia
  • esport
  • tech
  • nauka
  • krakow
  • sport
  • antywykop
  • FromSilesiaToPolesia
  • Cyfryzacja
  • Pozytywnie
  • zebynieucieklo
  • niusy
  • kino
  • LGBTQIAP
  • opowiadania
  • warnersteve
  • Wszystkie magazyny