Howdy pardners, this is a cheeky self-plug for !freegames@feddit.uk, a community I’ve created to post limited-time full-game free giveaways. It’s been going a month or two and I’m already claiming games faster than I can play them, so come and join me and make your what-game-to-play choice paralysis worse!

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              Most of them don’t, and the ones that do are all tagged with [Amazon]. I made no such assumption!

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                Amazon is a storefront, not the subscription. They actually do give out free stuff once in a blue moon, so just saying [Amazon] is not clarification enough. On reddit, subs like this would say “complimentary with Prime” or something like that.

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                  Well if you click on the posts you’ll see that I do state that information in the description, I just don’t overload the title with it

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      Technically true, though you can start a free trial of Prime and claim all the games, and then (supposedly) they’re still yours to keep after the trial expires. A small hoop to jump through, but it should mean free games!

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        Depends. Some of the games they give you are on gog. Those you certainly get to keep.

        IRC Others are only available as long as you’re a prime member.

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          According to the game pages themselves:

          Games with Prime are free to collect and can be kept forever.

          I’ve not tried cancelling myself, but a quick web search for other people asking this question says yes you do keep them!

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          What, no, absolutely not. In fact I recall the games you get via their launcher don’t even have DRM on them. I’ll check them again at some point.

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            Some definitely do have DRM. I explicitly ended up buying Devil May Cry on Steam despite getting it with Prime because it opened the Twitch launcher every time I tried to play, which messed up Steam Input or whatever I was trying to use at the time.

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        Doesn’t really work if I’ve had a subscription before, or used said free month some time in the past.

        Only issue here is to flag it’s on Twitch Prime so everyone has the right expectation.

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          Can you not create a new account with a new (or alias) email? Or do they want phone number, card, or other less-easily-created details?

          The Amazon ones are tagged as such, but there are plenty of other providers with less hoops to jump through!

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            I haven’t tried. That’s not for me. I’d rather just buy the game or pirate it. Both are much easier.