• Re: FREE GAMES: A Glut of Unpaid Gaming in 2023

    From Justisaur@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Sun Dec 31 12:31:57 2023
    On 12/31/2023 10:13 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    Anyway, here's a list of all the freebies of 2023. How many of these
    games did you add to your library? And, as importantly, how many did
    you actually play?

    I'm not going to bother to look up how many I got. But played?

    Some of them I paid for the game and played them before they were free.
    Some I played for minutes.


    EPIC - 90 games


    * Bloons TD 6 - minutes
    * Cat Quest - Did play it, but I bought it ages ago, so doesn't count.
    * Death Stranding - Did I get this free from epic? Probably, I don't
    think I would've played it otherwise.
    * Deliver Us Mars - Actually finished it, not bad, a bit heavy handed
    with a questionable message.
    * Destiny 2: Legacy Collection - I played Destiny 2, don't know if it's
    this.
    * Epistory - Typing Chronicles - I think I paid for this? Not entirely
    sure. Played for a bit, but found it annoying/unfun after an hour or so. Fallout 3: Game Of The Year Edition - Bought this ages ago, it makes my
    3rd copy of the base game, 2nd GOTY copy.
    Fallout: New Vegas - Ultimate Edition - Had this of course, I don't
    think I bought the DLCs, so bonus there, but haven't played them yet.
    * Ghostrunner - played this a bit from one of the giveaways, didn't get
    into it.
    * Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition - played a short bit from
    epic, I remember getting annoyed and quitting though.
    * Idle Champions Of The Forgotten Realms Pack - played this a bit, but
    might've been on Steam? Ugh, horrible game.
    * Kerbal Space Program - Played a few hours, didn't ever figure out what
    I was supposed to do exactly.
    Saints Row (2023) - I will play this Probably #1 after I finish
    Bloodborne and I'm REAL close. I could finish it now.
    The Elder Scrolls Online - I know I played it a bit, but I think it was
    on a free weekend or something, no desire to go back.
    The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice - Bought the base game and finished,
    DLCs are bonus.

    So possibly 9, Really only 1 played any length of time, and that was a
    short o.k. game. I'd put actual value I got out of it about $4.

    GOG - 45 games

    I guess I didn't play any of these.

    STEAM - 35 games

    I bought/played these ages ago, didn't play any new ones, so no value here:

    Metro Last Light Complete
    Witcher:Enhanced Edition

    MISC - 17 games

    No Misc.

    I remember I played a few Amazon/Luna games

    The Batman one on Luna, but it was too 'action' to work well on Luna.

    I also just played Bloodrayne side scroller on Luna for a couple hours.
    That was surprisingly fun. Not enough to keep beating my head on the
    chapter 3 or 4 boss though.

    I'm probably forgetting something, but I'm not sure how to check what I
    played there. Probably about $10 worth to me (I definitely wouldn't do
    Prime just for the free games, I don't think I ever would've done Prime
    at all except my wife got it!)

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  • From Justisaur@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Mon Jan 1 09:48:35 2024
    On 1/1/2024 7:22 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
    On Sun, 31 Dec 2023 12:31:57 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On 12/31/2023 10:13 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    Anyway, here's a list of all the freebies of 2023. How many of these
    games did you add to your library? And, as importantly, how many did
    you actually play?

    I'm not going to bother to look up how many I got. But played?

    I wasn't really expecting anyone to do that anyway. Mostly the post
    was my way of indicating how prevelant and common free-game give-aways
    have become, and how this has effected the industry as a whole.
    I remember I played a few Amazon/Luna games

    I didn't include any Luna games since those are more 'subscription
    based' games, more akin to Playstation Plus or Microsoft GamePass, and
    adding all those would have made the list untenably long.


    Well the ones I played were free with Prime. I suppose that isn't any
    more free than a PS Premium sub, but I tend to think of it that way as
    I'm not specifically paying for them.

    I could say I played Bloodborne free, but I paid for the PS Premium specifically just to play it.

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