Re: PRIME GAMING 4 October 2024

On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 12:40:54 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
wrote:

On 10/4/2024 8:42 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

* Black Desert (via itself)
     An MMORPG; very grindy if the reviews are to be believed.

Picked everything up this.  Not creating an account for an MMO.  I'm an
addict and trying to stay away from them.
Here's the code if anyone wants to create an account and redeem it.

DDDE1476846E43E6

It'll probably be taken quick, but being an MMO with an account
requirement maybe not.

Here's another code, 'cause I won't be claiming it either:

6A9E4616DE094CD9

And some info so you know what you're getting into:

Black Desert is an action-filled MMORPG game with a dynamic combat
system like no other. Enjoy multitudes of life skill activities such
as fishing, cooking, trading, and crafting at your own pace. You can
also make lifelong friends, use your imagination to the fullest with
the extensive character customization system, engage in large and
small-scale PvP, take down epic bosses and mobs, and much more!

This offer includes:
- Black Desert Base Game
- Urimok Furniture Set
- Haso Teaware Prop Set
- Elion's Tear x7

How to redeem your Black Desert Online coupon code:
- Log in or create your Pearl Abyss Account at
https://www.playblackdesert.com.
- After log-in, navigate to 'Shop' > 'Redeem Coupon Code' and enter
your 16-digit coupon code.
- Navigate to 'Download' > 'Client'.
- Click 'Download Client' and follow the prompts to install the Black
Desert launcher.

I'm surprised to not see any "Legendary Games" now.  Maybe Amazon got
the hint they're shovel-ware no one wants.

There was the one (it's "LegacyGames, btw): "I Love Finding Cats &
Pups"

I can't judge if they're bad games but they were pretty much all
identical hidden-object games that they could create pretty quickly
(so definitely shovelware). It seemed that fans of that genre quite
enjoyed them, though. The biggest hang-up I had about them was they
required a separate account to use. I wasn't going to play the free
games they were offering, and the service didn't have any OTHER games
I was interested in, so creating an account was just a step too much
for me. So the titles were dross to me.

I don't think, though, that Amazon backed away from the games. I think
it's the other way around; that Legacy wasn't seeing much in the way
of returns from the partnership (I suspect that Amazon, like Epic,
doesn't pay much -or anything!- for some of these freebies). Either
that or Amazon had burnt its way through the entire Legacy library
already and there weren't anymore games to offer. A similar thing
happened with the SNK/NeoGeo ports that dominated Amazon's offerings
for years: at one point, there just weren't any new games from that
source.

Amazon seems a lot more interested in quantity than quality in its
Prime offerings. I think that Amazon would keep shoving out
LegacyGames titles for the next decade if it were up to them.