You can get a free trial which should let you grab the game (and all the others) for free a (nd keep them) before you’re charged; alternatively if you have a friend who pays for it they can add your account to their “family” (or something like that) and you essentially get a prime account with nobody having to pay any more.
By this logic, demos from GOG could be posted too, since both are appetizers for something else (in Prime's case, an appetizer for the paid service), and both can be claimed.
It’s not about what the service is trying to do, it’s just about whether or not there’s a full game you can get for free! I don’t like Amazon either but I’m not trying to change the world here, it’s just about games that people might not know they can get at no extra cost.
I should probably write a bot to auto-respond, but you can create a free trial of prime, grab the games, then delete it if you don’t want to give any money to Amazon. Or just use a Lemmy client which lets you filter out anything with Prime in the title!
You sure they aren’t harvesting data or something when you do that?
Thank you for the filter suggestion, but I get a small dopemine release every time I publicly shit on Amazon. That would interfere with my kink and I’m building up for something huge on December first.
Lol, I’m sure they would try to log as much info as possible, but if you sign up with entirely fake info with a new email then what can they get on you? I imagine their gamble with offering free trials is that you’ll be tempted to pay for the service if you like it, but if they actually have to pay the game developers/publishers for each copy they give away (rather than a flat fee, which probably seems more likely) then claiming free games might even cost them.
but if they actually have to pay the game developers/publishers for each copy they give away (rather than a flat fee, which probably seems more likely) then claiming free games might even cost them.
Not sure how it works with Prime Gaming, but with Kindle Prime and Kindle Unlimited, authors get paid based on the number of pages of the book that the customer reads. So the more people download and read the free books in those programs, the more authors get paid. I’ve heard that a lot of authors really appreciate this system because being in the program gets their book in front of more eyes than if it was just another ebook in the middle of millions of others, so they do come out of it better off. And often financially better off than if they’d published through a traditional publisher, too.
While I doubt Prime Gaming are paying devs based on hours played (the closest metric to pages read for books), since about half of the games I’ve claimed have been on other platforms, it’s definitely possible and even likely that they’re paying based on copies given away, rather than a flat fee.
I didn’t pay for Amazon Prime for the gaming. The free games are just a nice perk on top of a service I was already paying for for other reasons. De-Amazoning is surprisingly difficult when there are simply no local suppliers for many products. So my alternate tactic is costing Amazon as much money as possible, and also fucking up their data as much as possible. I claim every free game, even if I’m not interested in it, because it’ll make the data they hold on me look weird and the devs get paid for each one.
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