Re: Prime Gaming 22 April 2024

On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:17:26 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 23:59 this Monday (GMT):

Yeah, it's that time again. Amazon 'gives away'* some games, so the
least we can do is talk about them here. This time we have on tap the
following games:

I didn't know Prime gave free games.

They aren't free per se. You have to subscribe (pay) for the Amazon
Prime service to be eligible to claim the games. If you have Amazon
Prime, go to https://game.amazon.com and sign in with your Amazon
account.

The games themselves come from a variety of services. The ones offered
by Amazon require you to download their app. Games from Epic or Steam
require you to link your accounts from those services to Amazon. Games
from GOG and Legacy do not, however (you get a code that needs to be
entered into the appropriate client). Once you claim the games, they
are yours to keep, even if you cancel Prime.

Prime Gaming also has a streaming cloud-based gaming service, but I've
no interest in that so I've never looked into how it works.

The games tend to be a mixed bag, and usually aren't too exciting;
they are usually a mixed bag of older B-tier games, arcade remakes and
Indie stuff. I've never seen the games as reason enough to subscribe
to Prime (honestly, I've never seen /anything/ that makes Prime worth
the price ;-). Still -seeing as my opinion on the matter was overruled
in this household- I figured that since I /was/ paying for it, I might
as well get advantage from the free games. ;-)



TL;DR: don't subscribe to Prime just for the games, but if you already
have it, why not use it to make The Number go up?