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Hello, I'm the Giveaway Bot! Jadax is giving away 3 gift(s).

This giveaway is a raffle and will be closed after Dec 27, 2024 at 7:06 AM. A winner is chosen randomly with the key delivered via a PM.

Games, region restriction on Persona (EU) and Dome Keeper (unsure).
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The raffle has ended.

The following games are being given away:

 
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Played about 1 hour of Veilguard with EA Play. Gonna wait for a deep sale on this one. Game feels very outdated and repetive to play, decent fun at times, but coming from a lot of other RPGs (especially BG3). this game feels very mediocre so far.
 
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fantomena said:
Played about 1 hour of Veilguard with EA Play. Gonna wait for a deep sale on this one. Game feels very outdated and repetive to play, decent fun at times, but coming from a lot of other RPGs (especially BG3). this game feels very mediocre so far.
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But remember, it's because of evil chuds and Valve's playtracker that this game bombed. If you disagree you're a nazi
 
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Snakethesniper said:
which one? I recently got an Ipad and was wondering if there was anything fun
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I'm playing FGO since it's basically a VN with turn based gameplay, but I would reccomend something like ZZZ as NarohDethan suggested or Honkai Star Rail.
Zenless Zone Zero needs a controller imho, it's an action game and HSR is turn based instead.

You can also try Infinity Nikki for the cozy gameplay (which is also on PC).
 
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Le Pertti said:
It’s not a competition, both can be good and they both have different strengths. Like veilguard is much more open than remake so for me that makes it more enjoyable.
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I honestly don't see many strengths with Veilguard. If you like openess, Rebirth beats Veilguard handsomely.
 
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fantomena said:
Played about 1 hour of Veilguard with EA Play. Gonna wait for a deep sale on this one. Game feels very outdated and repetive to play, decent fun at times, but coming from a lot of other RPGs (especially BG3). this game feels very mediocre so far.
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Yeah I played through the whole game and it's probably a 7/10 at most in my eyes.
 
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Le Pertti said:
You played one hour, doesn’t really represent the game. It is uncomfortably linear at the start, it does open up. Also we didn’t talk about rebirth. Which granted does indeed seem great.
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I have so many games to play, if I have to play more than 1 hour to "meet the actual game" then the game has failed it's first impression.

I could have used that 1 hour of Veilguard to play a truly amazing indie game.
 
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The 23 steps of purchasing my kid a Sony PC game on Steam for Christmas

Back in my day (yep), you got a game for Christmas, you opened the box, you installed it from the physical media in the box, and you played it. 3 steps, roughly, if my counting fingers are still good in my advancing years.
In 2024, you get a PC game for Christmas, and this is what happens:
  1. Santa purchases a digital license for a game.
  2. Child receives game and installs it. Parent leaves, thinking child will be happy with their new game.
  3. Child opens the game, is greeted with a message that they need a Sony account (in addition to their age-appropriate Steam account, which is in addition to their age-appropriate Google account needed to have an email address and their age-appropriate Microsoft account to have access to Windows).
  4. Child calls for parent that they need a Sony account.
  5. Parent clicks through "child account creation" page, which requires an adult account to provision.
  6. Parent forgets their adult Sony login information (we're on a PC, not a PS5), has to look up their credentials, which are locked behind MFA on their phone.
  7. Parent must satisfy Sony MFA via emailed auth code.
  8. Parent signs in -- must re-auth email for the adult account (despite MFA already using said email).
  9. Parent signs up for child account.
  10. Parent must verify child email by signing into child Gmail account.
  11. Parent must provide payment info to demonstrate that they are an adult. $0.50 must be charged to their adult-shaped credit card.
  12. Parent enters credit card info.
  13. Parent agrees to the $0.50 transaction using newly added credit card.
  14. Unknown Error
  15. Parent agrees to $0.50 transaction.
  16. Unknown Error
  17. Parent uses semi-child-appropriate curse word ("for crap's sake") signs out of adult account, signs back in, finds where to create a child account, goes back through child account creation, agrees to $0.50 transaction. Success.
  18. Parent must specify child account settings (age limits, etc). 1 or 2 EULAs here.
  19. Parent goes back to game, signs in as child with new child account.
  20. Parent must verify email account with MFA token sent to child account email.
  21. Error
  22. Retry. Probably another EULA. Success.
  23. Child plays game
Literally, this is the process I went through to get Lego Horizon Adventures working on my kids PC via Steam. It was INSANE. I've been gaming my whole life and the way things have gone is just so depressing and so dystopian. It's a goddamn video game. I felt like I was trying to get a car loan!
Obviously the answer here is "just sign up as an adult" or better "don't buy Sony PC games," but this is the "proper" method that Sony wants their PC customers to follow. It's unhinged. I'm not the type of person to pick a specific game launcher or bandwagon hate on whatever is the hot topic to hate at the moment, but boy howdy did this experience make it plain to me how godawful things have gotten.
I'm thankful most purchases on Steam are NOT like this, but I'm going to be on the lookout for any future titles that are and avoid them like the plague.
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