Update Sep 21:
All winners have claimed the games! Congrats again to all the winners, and thanks everyone for participating!
If you didn't win, look out for another giveaway I'll host in the future. Most likely in Winter 2024. I'll try to get us other games besides Action/RPGs lol. :D
Note:
The games donated by an anonymous Lemmy user are still available.
I will make a separate post in !GiftOfGaming@Lemmy.World. I will do this next week so I can rest and recover from my cold.
Update Sep 20 - Part 2:
Only one last key remaining, pending a response from the winner:
- Tomb Raider Definitive Survivor Trilogy - 1 key remaining - Winner: Pending
Note: The remaining keys from the anonymous person that donated to me will be given away as a separate post in !giftofgaming@lemmy.world
Update Sep 20:
Sorry folks, I got back from a work trip and am also getting over a cold. This is the first day that I feel well enough to use my computer, so I'll continue with redraws. So far, most of the keys have been claimed but others have not gotten back to me within the 48 hours.
New winners have been selected for the final three games:
- Final Fantasy I-VI Bundle (Pixel Remasters) - 1 key remaining
- Hogwarts Legacy: Deluxe Edition - 1 key remaining
- Tomb Raider Definitive Survivor Trilogy - 1 key remaining
Note that the remaining keys from the anonymous person that donated to me will be given away as a separate post in !giftofgaming@lemmy.world
Update Sep 8:
I made a post here to announce I would start drawing today - https://lemmy.world/post/19534362
I'm a little delayed with giving these games away as my intention was to do it on Sep 1st. Unfortunately some personal things got in the way, but now we're good to go and I can starting handing them out!
- All winners have been notified. They have 48 hours to get back to me. See my comments below starting with: "Congratulations! You've been selected as the winner of..."
- I will update the list of games below when the game has been claimed by the winner.
These games have automatic winners since they were the only one who entered:
- Pony Island - [@Aviandelight@mander.xyz](https://mander.xyz/u/Aviandelight)
- Sniper Elite 4 - [@EpicStuff@lemmy.ca](https://lemmy.ca/u/EpicStuff)
- Strange Horticulture - [@midimalist@lemdro.id](https://lemdro.id/u/midimalist)
- Congrats to the lucky winners!!
No one entered for these games. I will make a new post in [!giftofgaming@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/giftofgaming) and will give away the codes there:
- Agatha Knife
- Calico
- Cultures Bundle
- Stronghold Crusader HD
- Two Point Hospital (EU Region-Locked ONLY)
- Valhalla Hills Two-Horned Helmet Edition
Update Aug 18:
I added more games from a kind, anonymous Lemming. I extended the giveaway to August 31st. No more donations accepted - thank you!
Hey PC Master Race community! And hi anyone else that stumbles upon this post and is not a member of the PCMR community!
Summer is almost over, and it has been an interesting year for sure. I previously did a giveaway for last Winter Holiday 2023, and decided I should do another giveaway! Basically because we here in Lemmy are still alive and kicking, and I want to do something nice for a few lucky gamers.
Games I’m giving away:
Some of the games have multiple key codes, denoted by the quantity.
Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- Reunion | Quantity 1 | Steam Product Page- Winner: @M0115732@lemmy.worldFinal Fantasy I-VI Bundle (Pixel Remasters) | Qty 2 | Steam- Winner 1: @Apeman42@lemmy.world, Winner 2: @darkdemize@sh.itjust.worksFinal Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade | Qty 2 | Steam- Winner 1: @Xatolos@reddthat.com, Winner 2: @Fuzzypyro@lemmy.worldHogwarts Legacy Deluxe Edition | Qty 2 | Steam- Winner 1: @Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org , Winner 2: @meatwads_tooth@sh.itjust.worksNieR: Automata Game of the YoRHa Edition | Qty 1 | Steam- Winner: @Cossty@lemmy.worldOctopath Traveler | Qty 1 | Steam- Winner: @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipTomb Raider Definitive Survivor Trilogy | Qty 2 | Steam- Winner 1: @jeffreyosborne@lemm.ee , Winner 2: @SuperThr33s@sh.itjust.worksTomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft | Qty 1 | Steam- Winner: @Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org
Additional Game Keys donated by an anonymous Lemming
These games come from Humble Bundle, Games Planet, and Fanatical. There is only one key for each of the nine listed below:
- Agatha Knife | Steam Product Page
- Calico | Steam
- Cultures Bundle (Cultures: Northland & Cultures: The Wonder of the World) | Humble Bundle Product Page
Pony Island | Steam- Winner: @Aviandelight@mander.xyzSniper Elite 4 - Deluxe | Steam- Winner: @EpicStuff@lemmy.caStrange Horticulture | Steam- Winner: @midimalist@lemdro.id- Stronghold Crusader HD | Steam
- Valhalla Hills: Two-Horned Helmet Edition | Steam
EU Countries Only (will not activate in any other region):
- Two Point Hospital | Steam Product Page
Update Sep 21:
All the games above that aren't striked through are still available.
Will post these either next week or the week after, so I can rest and recover from my cold.
Post will be in !Giftofgaming@lemmy.world
Update Sep 8:
The other games listed above did not have anyone enter for them. I will make a new post in [!giftofgaming@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/giftofgaming) to giveaway those keys. The list starts with "Agatha Knife".
How to Enter:
- Comment on this post with the one game you are interested in.
- Optional: Post or create a meme that made you laugh and is Safe For Work. NSFW stuff will be deleted.
- Optional: Share something interesting, fun, and/or cool that happened to you this year. Or share a hobby you picked up, a show you recently watched, the latest game that blew you away, whatever! Just share something fun to read rather than the usual: “Entering for X game, thanks.”
Restrictions
- You can only enter once, and pick only one game.
- Your Lemmy account must be at least 30 days old and have participated recently in Lemmy/Fediverse.
- If your account appears to be a bot, troll, spam account, or just a creepy/gross/hateful person, you will not be selected.
- Moderators of the !PCMasterRace@lemmy.world community are not eligible.
Winner Selection:
- I will randomly select eligibile winners in this original post.
- You will be notified via two ways: I will @ mention you and reply on your comment to this post. I will also send you a Private Message on Lemmy.
- If you are selected, you will have 48 hours to respond to me to claim your eligibility.
- For transparency, please also reply to my public-facing comment so that others know you received and claimed the game successfully.
- If I do not get a response from you after 48 hours, you are forfeited and a new winner will be redrawn the next day until all game codes are exhausted.
Deadlines:
- You must enter by end of day Saturday, August 31, 2024, local time.
- I will make a new post and start drawing winners the following week.
Disclaimers:
- This is not a sponsored post of any kind. I purchased these keys myself, with my hard-earned money, exclusively for the sole purpose of this giveaway.
- The keys activate only on Steam as Retail OEM keys.
- The keys come only from Green Man Gaming, a legitimate key resller. They do not come from sketchy places like G2A (NEVER, ever do business with companies like G2A or Kinguin).
- There are other games, donated by a kind, anonymous Lemming that were sourced from other trusted resellers: Fanatical, Games Planet, and Humble Bundle. These codes all activate on Steam, but do note that Two Point Hospital is region-locked to EU countries only.
- Steam Support: How to activate a Product Key - https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/2A12-9D79-C3D7-F870
Proof:
Best of luck! Continue to be kind to each other, and most importantly, be kind to yourself.
Regards,
CatZoomies | PCMR Moderator, on behalf of the moderation team
Best of luck everyone! Reply to this comment if you have questions.
Please continue to be kind to each other, and most importantly, be kind to yourself. It’s easy to get so angry in today’s divisive world. You can’t change the world, but you can certainly help those closest to you.
Stay safe everyone!
CatZoomies | Moderator
EDIT Sep 21: All games were claimed!
There’s still a list of leftover keys that an anonymous Lemmy user donated to me. I’ll make a separate post on !GiftOfGaming@lemmy.world either next week or the week after, just so I can take some rest and recover from my cold.
Thanks again everyone for participating! Look out for a future big giveaway I’ll host, most likely in Winter 2024. Stay safe, and as always: remember to be kind to each other. Be kind to yourself - you’d be surprised what a difference you can make for yourself and others in your local community by being kind.
Entry for Nier Automata :)
Here’s a meme for ya
I’d like to enter for the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters!
This is so I can add the older Final Fantasy games to my meme repertoire.
Thank you!
According to the referenced characters, I’ve shockingly only played two of the FF games on this recipe list!
Dang, I really need to buy a copy of this game for myself!
Also, I know the FF13 game is mixed, but I’ll give some love out there for my badass homegirl, Lightning.
Putting in for Final Fantasy I-VI Bundle (Pixel Remasters), please! My god, I had no idea this existed until just now!
@cybertaco@CyberTaco@lemmy.world - Congratulations! You’ve been selected as the winner of Final Fantasy I-VI Bundle (Pixel Remasters)! You will have 48 hours to acknowledge me before I send you the code. Please respond to my Direct Message. If you do not respond back to me in 48 hours, your entry will be forfeited and I will redraw for the another winner.
If you do win and claim the game key, for transparency purposes please respond back to my comment letting everyone know you were successful - but only if you want to. Hope to hear back from you!
My girlfriend has been watching her friends dog while they are out of town and she sent me this recently. I can’t exactly remember the pups name right offhand which is sad because I went to his birthday party… they had cake, a portrait on the wall and they actually made stickers of the dog for everyone.
Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade would be rad, the og was the first rpg I played and finished.
Thanks for putting this on!
@Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world - Congratulations! You’ve been selected as the winner of Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade! You will have 48 hours to acknowledge me before I send you the code. Please respond to my Direct Message. If you do not respond back to me in 48 hours, your entry will be forfeited and I will redraw for the another winner.
If you do win and claim the game key, for transparency purposes please respond back to my comment letting everyone know you were successful - but only if you want to. Hope to hear back from you!
Well that’s a cute pup and I always love a derpy face! I’ll admit a dog birthday party is different, but I’ve never been invited to something like that before. I just give special treats to my pets for their birthdays
Oof, that hurts right in my Freedom! Good meme, but ooh boy does my country have an obesity problem. It’s so sad.
@M0115732@lemmy.world - Congratulations! You’ve been selected as the winner of Crisis Core -Final Fantasy- VII Reunion! You will have 48 hours to acknowledge me before I send you the code. Please respond to my Direct Message. If you do not respond back to me in 48 hours, your entry will be forfeited and I will redraw for the another winner.
If you do win and claim the game key, for transparency purposes please respond back to my comment letting everyone know you were successful - but only if you want to. Hope to hear back from you!
NieR:Automata
Just yestarday I started a book which is 9000 pages long. Ward by J.C. McCrae, it is sequel to Worm which has 7000 pages.
Good god. And I thought The Lord of the Rings was long!
I have never heard of this and gleaned some info about it on Wikipedia. What are your thoughts? Was it worth dedicating your time to reading all that? it sounds like a huge commitment but if it’s good I’ll give it a go.
I read lots of fiction and bits of non-fiction. I guess the longest fiction series that I read would be the Percy Jackson and the Olympians universe from Rick Riordan. He’s got so many different spin-offs and I’ve read almost all of them, so I’d consider that to be like 10k pages, maybe.
Worm is definetly worth it imo. One of the best fantasy stories I have experienced. Either on TV or in book. It’s everybody’s cup of tea, because it is a fantasy in present day, where people have super powers. If you are into that you will probably like. Some people might compare it to marvel or dc, but I would say the only similarities are the there are superheroes. Worm is really dark, especialy later. People acually have interesting powers, instead of just variations on super strength or speed. When people fight there is often some cool implementation of their power.
I acually listened to audiobook. There is fan made one, with pretty good narrator. https://abaddonproductions.org/category/worm/ You can listen to it on podcast apps like anthenapod. Book is around 175 h long. I listened to it on 1.5 speed. It took me about 2 and half weeks. I can listen during my work, almost whole shift. I really take advantage of that. I go through 130+ books in a year.
Now for the sequel Ward, that I started recently. I dropped it like 2 weeks ago. I was maybe 45% in. Didnt like what the author did with one of my favorite characters from Worm. Maybe I will finish it later idk yet, story is very interesting too. Definetly still recommend Worm, even if you would not plan to read the sequel. Worm works as a standalone book and the ending has great conclusion.
Here is another recomendation for long series. Wandering Inn. Currently you can read it on author website. Or you can listen to audiobooks. That’s what I have been doing. Narrator is amazing imo. Some people say first book is rough. I really liked it either way. But author took the criticism and is making revised version of the first book. So maybe wait for that. Currently there is 13 books, each has around 1300 pages. The longest is second one. It has 1700 pages. Now, I’m waiting for the 14th. Start of the series is laid off, slice in life even. But later it turns into epic fantasy, with a ton of characters, politics, adventures etc. Author even started new spin off series with first book: Gravesong.
@Cossty@lemmy.world - Congratulations! You’ve been selected as the winner of NieR:Automata Game of the YoRHa Edition! You will have 48 hours to acknowledge me before I send you the code. Please respond to my Direct Message. If you do not respond back to me in 48 hours, your entry will be forfeited and I will redraw for the another winner.
If you do win and claim the game key, for transparency purposes please respond back to my comment letting everyone know you were successful - but only if you want to. Hope to hear back from you!
Yep it worked. Thanks for the key
Entering for Tomb Raider Definitive Survivor Trilogy
@Googlyman64@lemmy.world - Congratulations! You’ve been selected as the winner of Tomb Raider Definitive Survivor Trilogy! You will have 48 hours to acknowledge me before I send you the code. Please respond to my Direct Message. If you do not respond back to me in 48 hours, your entry will be forfeited and I will redraw for the another winner.
If you do win and claim the game key, for transparency purposes please respond back to my comment letting everyone know you were successful - but only if you want to. Hope to hear back from you!
This is super cool of you!
I would absolutely love the Final Fantasy I-VI Bundle, both for my own nostalgia and to introduce my wife to them. She’s only played X and XIV.
To accompany my entry, have a homemade FF4 meme:
@Apeman42@lemmy.world - Congratulations! You’ve been selected as the winner of Final Fantasy I-VI Bundle (Pixel Remasters)! You will have 48 hours to acknowledge me before I send you the code. Please respond to my Direct Message. If you do not respond back to me in 48 hours, your entry will be forfeited and I will redraw for the another winner.
If you do win and claim the game key, for transparency purposes please respond back to my comment letting everyone know you were successful - but only if you want to. Hope to hear back from you!
A winner is… me?! This is incredible!
Installing FF5 now because I love the early iteration of switchable classes, then I’ll loop back around and play them in order. So I guess I have the next 300-400 hours planned.
Thank you again CatZoomies, you’re my hero.
I wanna give Nier automata a try and I guess I will share something interesting.
Slowly for the past month I have been trying to make a markdown notes app which is inspired by Google Keep and Obsidian, last week I finally decided to add it to github. The fun part is that it is written in dart/flutter, but I started learning flutter like 3 months ago cuz it was a cool language that can easily be compiled to all devices from Linux to Windows to iOS and Android. Regardless, this project has consumed all consious thought in my brain, but I still suck at it and not many libraries I can use that achieve what I need, a struggle for sure.
Currently I am trying to figure out how to make it sync with Nextcloud first, then I plan to add other services like rsync, dropbox, gdrive, etc. Sorry if this sounds more like an advertisement for my app, I just never put my heart and soul into something so much before.
I’ve never actually played any Final Fantasy game yet. It’d be cool if Final Fantasy I-VI is still available for entry!
Hi there! Sorry, the contest is already over as of Aug 31st. I’m drawing winners now and just waiting to hear back from people as they trickle in their responses.
Keep an eye on the next one: I’m aiming to do another one somewhere around the upcoming Winter holiday. Cheers!
Okay, no problem. That was worth a shot
I already own the games that I’m interested in, so no entry here, just wanted to say thanks for putting on this giveaway two years in a row and making the fediverse feel a little more fun.
No prob! The fediverse is still a nascent platform, and even PCMR is a nascent community compared to the Reddit original. Plus I guess I’m not cool enough or creative enough to make frequent posts every day like The Picard Maneuver, but I try to comment at least once every other day.
Giveaways are always fun! At least I can do that periodically lol
Now I just need to find a game you might be interested in next time. :)
Any idea when you might get around to the 2nd winners of the games that have 2? We know you’re a busy person and you’re great nonetheless. Was just curious :]
1 entry for Tomb Raider Definitive Survivor Trilogy, a large fry and a large coke, please.
@SuperThr33s@sh.itjust.works , Congratulations! You’ve been selected as the winner of Tomb Raider Definitive Survivor Trilogy! You will have 48 hours to acknowledge me before I send you the code. Please respond to my Direct Message. If you do not respond back to me in 48 hours, your entry will be forfeited and I will redraw for the another winner.
If you do win and claim the game key, for transparency purposes please respond back to my comment letting everyone know you were successful - but only if you want to. Hope to hear back from you!
How games are meant to be played. Buying the game from a store, reading the included manual while in the car, plopping down in front of the TV with a large fry and large coke.
Simpler times!
Hooray for game giveaways! Code has been claimed and thanks again!
OP, kudos for doing this. Put me down for the FF Pixel Remaster Bundle.
I’m about to take my Steam deck on an international flight, so those would be perfect to pass the time!
@darkdemize@sh.itjust.works , Congratulations! You’ve been selected as the winner of Final Fantasy I-VI Bundle (Pixel Remasters)! You will have 48 hours to acknowledge me before I send you the code. Please respond to my Direct Message. If you do not respond back to me in 48 hours, your entry will be forfeited and I will redraw for the another winner.
If you do win and claim the game key, for transparency purposes please respond back to my comment letting everyone know you were successful - but only if you want to. Hope to hear back from you!
OP has delivered! Thanks so much @CatZoomies@lemmy.world
You’re welcome, Chocoboo.
Okay that was a bad joke but I tried.
