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!

  • 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
          2·
          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.