Do we really need all these garbage itch.io games posted here all the time? It seriously lowers the quality of the content posted, while spamming my notifications. It also puts layers of shit on top of diamonds, if you get what I mean.

Anyone else sharing my train of thoughts?

One suggestion might be to collect, say 10 itch games per post.

I agree with you

yeah itch,io isn't really free, u give them your email by signing up to get them

Well, I don't want to see epic or steam games here, but free is free.

I would agree with this as this was how I shared early this year.
I had huge collaborative posts with 50, 60 itch.io giveaways.

Example: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/free_temporary_keys_giveaway_central_topic/post7069
It is much more neater this way.

The problem is games do not go on giveaway at the same time as they did during the beginning of the pandemic.
Now developers post freebies at random times, and some may only last 1 day or even a few hours.
This makes it impossible to post a huge list like I did in March.

But I respect everyone's opinion.

Here is a poll:
https://www.strawpoll.me/21003273

If majority chooses "No", we will ban itch.io freebies from being shared here.

I found a code off of Honey to get a free game on BigFishgames.com. It will also work for any collector's edition. You can choose any game

Purchased Mystery Case Files: The Harbinger Collector's Edition.

FREEGAME778567 is the code. I did not see an expiration date.

Agree. A thread dedicated to itch.io freebies shoud be created, leaving this thread more readable. I don't even understand why there is still 2 threads for announcing the same freebies !

Why dont you want to see epic or steam games?

seems i'm one of the 19% who only wanted to see the free games ohwell
alternatively a seperate thread could be made

I'm interested in at least some of the itch.io freebees, so I would like to keep the announcements here.

It's always good to collect multiple freebies in one post, when possible. It also might be a good idea to limit the announcements to free games as most people are not game developers and do not need game assets. And at least I am also not interested in the books.

That's what annoys me much more than having announcements for stores I'm not interested in. Having to check 2 or more threads with often the same announcements is more tedious than skipping some posts for shops I'm not interested in. For me it is much more essential that it's easily visible what store the freebees are for, without having to hover over the links, so that you can quickly skip the announcements you are not interested in. I would prefer to have one thread for all freebee announcements and it would be nice when we could join the 2 current threads into one. Creating a separate thread for itch.io freebees would make the situation even worse in my eyes.

Anyway, I'm thankful to everyone who is posting information about freebees here and restricting people to do so is the wrong way to go for me.

No, you do not need an email address as you can download free games from itch.io without being registered. If anything is not really free then it's Steam (and any other shop with a mandatory client). You need to be registered there, so you have to give them an email address and you also pay them with your gaming data. ;P

I would support locking the current threads in order to start fresh. We could do:

one thread for games and another for books/ assets/ dev tools/ whatever.

OR one thread for most games, and another just for itch,

OR one thread for "mainstream", big store games (steam, epic, gog, uplay, wthaever), and another for indie games (indiegala, groupees, itch, etc.)

I think SOME measure of separation would be good.

EDIT PC link for the game

Mac link for the game

I wouldn't fragment this threat. Those fragments will become fragmented too and so on. It's better to make some guidelines in one threat than to have 5-10 of the same kind.

How about that as a first idea:
one post per store, this means double posts are okay.
post starts with the store in capital letters,
if it's not a game the type stands in front of the link (or description when there is no link)
if you want to post the game's category post it at the end of the link.


example post:
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ITCH.IO

hxxps://example1.itch.io/examplegame1
hxxps://example2.itch.io/examplegame2 RPG
hxxps://example3.itch.io/examplegame3 (Restocked)
BOOK hxxps://example4.itch.io/examplebook
MOVIE hxxps://example5.itch.io/examplemovie
hxxps://example5.itch.io/examplegame5 (best FPS ever made)

some text you want to add or whatever catpics...
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i couldn't find the option to download without it, if you mean the button where it show "download or claim" it lies

OK, so the poll is still going. Not many have voted, so I will let it run till Monday PDT time.

If you know anyone who wants to express their stand, point them to this post:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/free_temporary_keys_giveaway_central_topic/post7789

Let everyone's voice be heard.

I believe this is the best option for me.

Most of the games being posted here I wouldn't bother to play even if I was being paid.