Re: Prime Gaming 16 April 2025

On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 08:00:21 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

On 16/04/2025 16:41, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

It wasn't really intended that way, but the list above more or less
follows my decreasing level of interest in the games. The first few,
sure, add them to the library, why not; they're not 'must have' games
but I wouldn't mind owning them and might even give 'em a try one of
these days. But that becomes less and less likely the further you
scroll down the list.
 
Well, the nicest thing I can say is that there's a lot of variety in
the selection of games. Anyway, in two weeks we'll have a bunch of
other (semi-) freebies to look at, so I'm not complaining too loudly.
We'll see what we get in a fortnight. Ciao until then!

>
I agree they aren't must have games as otherwise, well I'd already have
them. Although it's nice to see that in the last few months Amazon seem
to have got out of having almost all slop to games that lots of people
should be interested, if not excited, in claiming.
>
Where I've got most of my value for money from though is games that I
was never quite sure about enough to purchase them and games that I'd
never heard of.

Yeah, if there's one good thing to say about Amazon Prime games is
that they have a fairly good variety to them. There's usually at least
one game in the mix you'll find at least somewhat interesting, and
given the huge audience Amazon doubtlessly serves, that's pretty
impressive. They have games for the hard-core and the casuals and
everyone in between.

And I myself like exposure to different genres; how else could I
definitively determine that game-style X sucks if I didn't get an
opportunity to play one of these awful games first? ;-)

And let's be fair; while there have been a lot of filler games over
the years (although, again, determining which games are filler and
which are the good ones is very subhective), Amazon has also offered a
lot of quality titles too. True, most of them are older games but it's
a great way to pick up some classics you missed the first time around.

     (well, unless you're a nutcase who has a copy of all the
      games already. But who'd be that stupid and financially
      reckless? ;-)

I'd never recommend anyone getting (or even keeping) Amazon Prime just
for the games --it's not worth the money for that-- but if you already
have Prime, the Prime Gaming service is a nice bonus.

Shame the rest of the company is such a shitstain.