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  • Prime Gaming: Week of 9 August 2023

    From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 9 09:57:15 2023
    [Once again, I have been remiss in my duties keeping us all abreast
    about the free games on Amazon Prime. The beatings shall continue
    until my performance improves.]

    We're at the start of a new month, which is usually when Amazon wheels
    out the big games, but we're just getting a single game this time:


    * Payday 2
    I wish I could get excited about this game, but I never cared much for
    its motif, and the game is multiplayer-only to boot. Still, it has a
    fairly stable player-base on Steam, and a sequel is coming out soon (doubtlessly the reason for the freebie here). Too bad Amazon
    needlessly linked the game to your Epic account, since Epic offered
    this game as a freebie just last month. You can't even give the key to
    somebody else. Well, it does come with a DLC pack, and if you don't
    have "Payday 2" yet, I guess you could get it here. But it all seems
    sort of a waste...


    Way to make me rethink my monthly subscription fee, Amazon. ;-)

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  • From Zaghadka@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Thu Aug 10 10:16:02 2023
    On Wed, 09 Aug 2023 09:57:15 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
    Spalls Hurgenson wrote:


    [Once again, I have been remiss in my duties keeping us all abreast
    about the free games on Amazon Prime. The beatings shall continue
    until my performance improves.]

    We're at the start of a new month, which is usually when Amazon wheels
    out the big games, but we're just getting a single game this time:


    * Payday 2
    I wish I could get excited about this game, but I never cared much for
    its motif, and the game is multiplayer-only to boot. Still, it has a
    fairly stable player-base on Steam, and a sequel is coming out soon >(doubtlessly the reason for the freebie here). Too bad Amazon
    needlessly linked the game to your Epic account, since Epic offered
    this game as a freebie just last month. You can't even give the key to >somebody else. Well, it does come with a DLC pack, and if you don't
    have "Payday 2" yet, I guess you could get it here. But it all seems
    sort of a waste...

    Yeah. I got Payday 2 *years* ago on Steam freebie and still haven't
    touched it. MP only turned out to be a dealbreaker for me.

    (*sigh*)

    --
    Zag

    No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
    spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 10 13:22:41 2023
    On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 10:16:02 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Wed, 09 Aug 2023 09:57:15 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
    Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    * Payday 2
    I wish I could get excited about this game, but I never cared much for
    its motif, and the game is multiplayer-only to boot.

    Yeah. I got Payday 2 *years* ago on Steam freebie and still haven't
    touched it. MP only turned out to be a dealbreaker for me.


    It's actually a fun game and if you enjoy multiplayer FPS games, it
    has enough action and variety to keep you and your friends
    entertained. It's co-op too, which is (IMHO) the best type of
    multiplayer.

    But I'm not a big fan of crime-games, and the action in the Payday
    franchise is just a bit too frenetic and fast for me.

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  • From Ross Ridge@21:1/5 to zaghadka@hotmail.com on Thu Aug 10 23:36:15 2023
    Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:
    Yeah. I got Payday 2 *years* ago on Steam freebie and still haven't
    touched it. MP only turned out to be a dealbreaker for me.

    You can play it single-player as sort of a practice mode or something.
    I played a single heist in both Payday 1 & 2 that way and it was fun
    enough. More fun than playing Left 4 Dead 2 solo.

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