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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: Re: More free games on Prime!
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 09:19:48 +0100
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On 04/08/2024 16:07, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> That's a GOG restriction, and not necessarily a bad thing. They COULD
> streamline it, but then you'd have to give Amazon access to your GOG
> account so they could automatically log in as you and add the game to
> your account. It's what Amazon does with Epic games (and maybe Steam?
> I forget. There are so few free Steam games on Amazon).

That's not the bit the annoys me instead it's why can't the client just 
do what the website does. Having to go to GoG manually to use the code 
doesn't bother me but instead that I can't just go to the client and see 
what games are currently available and get the code if need be.