Re: More free games on Prime!

On Sat, 3 Aug 2024 09:18:46 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

On 01/08/2024 23:03, rms wrote:

https://gaming.amazon.com/home
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation + Chronicles
SteamWorld Heist
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
 
   If someone wants any of these, just ask!  I think they all redeem on GoG
 
rms

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That's certainly a better selection that they has been for the last
several months on Prime.
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What still annoys me about them is why not put all the games in the
Prime client instead of making you have to go to a separate website to
get the code. I get that they have to be installed under GoG or Epic but
surely it can't be that had to show their availability all in one place.

I assume it is because nobody uses the Amazon Prime Gaming client. You
can't harvest information about people if there's no information to
harvest. Even if they did, the client itself is fairly lackluster too;
there's no forums, no chat, no friends.

Sure Amazon /could/ add all these features, but that's expensive (a
lot of them would then put them on the hook for moderating stuff too,
which is even more expensive). Worse, the client itself isn't a
revenue generator; you can't BUY games directly on the client.

So it's better to just outsource it to third-parties (possibly getting
GOG and Epic and whomever to pay you for the privilege of driving
traffic towards them), get them to deal with all the expense
(including hosting costs), and then have them send the valuable user
data back to you.

Amazon gets to look generous without actually spending any money.