For those of us dumb enough to pay the Prime fee, there's a few more old >games to try: Starcraft Remastered, and several other indie titles. As >before, I had to check both Twitter under the crown menu for Starcraft, and >the prime gaming client for the others. Enjoy!!
For those of us dumb enough to pay the Prime fee, there's a few more old >games to try: Starcraft Remastered, and several other indie titles. As >before, I had to check both Twitter under the crown menu for Starcraft, and >the prime gaming client for the others. Enjoy!!
rms
"Zak McKracken" is an old-school LucasArts adventure and - while it
has its moments - it's not one of their best efforts. It feels like an
odd mix of Sierra's "SpaceQuest" and "Dagger of Amon Ra", but with a
less interesting storyline and characters. I also recall the game is >absolutely rife with annoying mazes and labyrinths that do nothing but
pad out the game's run-time. As a historical relic, it's an
interesting developmental step towards LucasArts' later, better
adventure games, but as something to play? It's not worth your time
unless your a retro-adventure fanatic.
I am a prime member but I forget how it works when it comes to
anything else but shipping :-)
For those of us dumb enough to pay the Prime fee, there's a few more old >games to try: Starcraft Remastered, and several other indie titles. As >before, I had to check both Twitter under the crown menu for Starcraft, and >the prime gaming client for the others. Enjoy!!
rms
On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 13:26:45 -0600, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, rms >wrote:
For those of us dumb enough to pay the Prime fee, there's a few more old >>games to try: Starcraft Remastered, and several other indie titles. As >>before, I had to check both Twitter under the crown menu for Starcraft, and >>the prime gaming client for the others. Enjoy!!
Requires Battle.net account. Nope.
On Mon, 01 Aug 2022 22:07:15 -0600, PW
<iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> wrote:
I am a prime member but I forget how it works when it comes to
anything else but shipping :-)
Claiming the games is fairly easy if you are already an Amazon prime
gamer. If I remember correctly, all you have to do is go to >https://gaming.amazon.com , log-in with your Amazon account name and >password, and you're good.
USING the games can be a bit more involved. Prime Gaming has two sorts
of games; those they offer on their own service, and those that use a >third-party service like Steam or Battlenet.
With the former, you'll need to download their Amazon App client,
which you then use to download and play the game (I haven't checked
recently, but in the past you could download the game, copy the
directory to another folder (or computer!) and then launch it directly >without even having the Amazon app installed; it didn't use any DRM.
I'm not sure if this is still the case).
With games that use a third-party service, Amazon /sometimes/ provides
a serial number that can be used to claim the game, but more often
they want you to "link" your accounts (the better to collect all your >personal data, my dear!). Instructions are provided as needed, but it
usually just requires you to click a link and sign in with your >Steam/Origin/UPlay/GOG/whatever account info. Those games then show up
in the appropriate launcher. "StarCraft: Remastered" is one of the
latter.
If you /are/ paying for Amazon Prime (which I don't recommend because
the savings usually aren't worth it and the company is scum, even
though I hypocritically do it, so take that for what its worth),
there's really no reason not to claim the games each month. You're
paying for them, after all, and it's not like Amazon doesn't already
know everything about you...
Requires Battle.net account. Nope.
Out of curiousity, is your rejection because of it being
Activision/Blizzard, or because you don't want to bother with >yet-another-service (or, alternately, because you don't want to link
it with Amazon so they can suck down more data on you)? Or is there
some other reason?
On Tue, 02 Aug 2022 20:53:59 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
Requires Battle.net account. Nope.
Out of curiousity, is your rejection because of it being
Activision/Blizzard, or because you don't want to bother with
yet-another-service (or, alternately, because you don't want to link
it with Amazon so they can suck down more data on you)? Or is there
some other reason?
Service fatigue. If I needed the service for more than the one game, I'd reconsider. But if the service doesn't offer or isn't connected to at
least five games I want or have, I'm probably not going to sign up. I
don't really have much interest in Activision/Blizzard's contemporary catalog.
I vaguely remember a distaste for what they did with Diablo III, too, but can't remember exactly what. Was it always connected DRM for solo play?
Linking to Amazon, however, is fine if it gets me a freebie! Amazon can
have whatever ad data they want from me. :^D
I vaguely remember a distaste for what they did with Diablo III, too, but >can't remember exactly what. Was it always connected DRM for solo play?
On Tue, 02 Aug 2022 23:40:12 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:
I vaguely remember a distaste for what they did with Diablo III, too, but >>can't remember exactly what. Was it always connected DRM for solo play?
Yes, and still is.
If not that, then maybe the real money auction house left a bad taste
in your mouth. It was that game's version of microtransactions.
Linking to Amazon, however, is fine if it gets me a freebie! Amazon can
have whatever ad data they want from me. :^D
On Tue, 02 Aug 2022 23:40:12 -0500, Zaghadka <zagh...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
I vaguely remember a distaste for what they did with Diablo III, too, but >can't remember exactly what. Was it always connected DRM for solo play?Yes, and still is.
If not that, then maybe the real money auction house left a bad taste
in your mouth. It was that game's version of microtransactions.
Requires Battle.net account. Nope.
B.net has been around for years, and isn't going away anytime soon I'd
imagine
rms
For those of us dumb enough to pay the Prime fee, there's a few more old games to try: Starcraft Remastered, and several other indie titles. As before, I had to check both Twitter under the crown menu for Starcraft, and the prime gaming client for the others. Enjoy!!
I missed the in-game currency marketplace after they killed the marketplace >altogether, as it made it far too difficult to do trades without it, and the >game was balanced more for trades as you got stuff for other classes,
so only 1/5th of gear was for yours. So I was actually more annoyed
when they caved to opinion. Though there's no reason they had to get
rid of the in-game currency market, but vocal fans were outraged about that, >saying it was better to meet and trade with others organically. Only it >wasn't.
On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 12:26:51 PM UTC-7, rms wrote:
For those of us dumb enough to pay the Prime fee, there's a few more old
games to try: Starcraft Remastered, and several other indie titles. As
before, I had to check both Twitter under the crown menu for Starcraft, and >> the prime gaming client for the others. Enjoy!!
Ahem, *I* don't pay for Prime... My wife does :)
But thanks for the reminder. I picked them all up except the Legacy Games one as they make you go through too many hoops for a game I have no interest in.\
Requires Battle.net account. Nope.
B.net has been around for years, and isn't going away anytime soon I'd
imagine
On 8/2/2022 9:40 PM, Zaghadka wrote:
And people wonder why large corporations treat their customers badly.
Linking to Amazon, however, is fine if it gets me a freebie! Amazon can
have whatever ad data they want from me. :^D
On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 07:52:50 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
On 8/2/2022 9:40 PM, Zaghadka wrote:
And people wonder why large corporations treat their customers badly.
Linking to Amazon, however, is fine if it gets me a freebie! Amazon can
have whatever ad data they want from me. :^D
I absolutely, 100% do not care what Amazon knows about my gaming library.
In fact, they'll wind up recommending games I might otherwise not have noticed.
My medical history? No. My sex toy collection (not)? No.
What video games I have in connected libraries? Welcome Mr. Bezos!
Amazon clearly has no idea what's up with me anyway. One time they
actually recommended a dental bone spreading kit to me. They've finally figured out that I like Nintendo Switch. Took them years.
Big data isn't as bad as you think.
On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 07:52:50 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
On 8/2/2022 9:40 PM, Zaghadka wrote:
And people wonder why large corporations treat their customers badly.
Linking to Amazon, however, is fine if it gets me a freebie! Amazon can
have whatever ad data they want from me. :^D
I absolutely, 100% do not care what Amazon knows about my gaming library.
In fact, they'll wind up recommending games I might otherwise not have noticed.
My medical history? No. My sex toy collection (not)? No.
What video games I have in connected libraries? Welcome Mr. Bezos!
Amazon clearly has no idea what's up with me anyway. One time they
actually recommended a dental bone spreading kit to me. They've finally figured out that I like Nintendo Switch. Took them years.
Big data isn't as bad as you think.
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