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[PC, Epic] Free - Dredge @ Epic Games
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Why is it weird? I've collected maybe 400 games since Amazon started in Australia from Prime Gaming. Always bound to be double ups. It's amazing value.
That's what's weird. Why are they doing it? What are they selling? With Epic it's obvious they're bribing you to keep their launcher installed but what's Amazon's game?
It's a perk of having Prime membership. That's a massive consideration as to why I keep mine alive. Prime is substantially more expensive in US than here so they need to make it worthwhile especially there.
Amazon wouldn't be absorbing all the costs of giving away titles either (nor Epic, GOG, Steam with freebies) but rather developers are happy to give games away through Prime Gaming for increased visibility etc. There are dlcs and other add-ons that developers make on the side when giving away base games.
Then there is AWS adoption, and Twitch partnerships etc. The latter of which they own and make money from ads and subscription costs.
Just all these at the top of my head anyway
they're selling amazon prime. the games are a sweetener to keep you signed up. they want you signed up with them instead of netflix or disney or any other streamer so they do as much as they can to get you to keep subbing.
But also a large number of the games offered free are provided by GOG, Epic etc. So my guess is there are deals from those services or they are providing keys to the games to get you onto those launchers too. Dredge is free on Prime Gaming but you need to claim it on GOG, so thats get you on their site where there other games to buy.
If you have Amazon Prime you can get Dredge for GoG. And a lot of other games. It's weird.