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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by CatZoomies@lemmy.world to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world

EDIT January 6, 2024:

All games have been accepted by the winners! Thanks everyone for your participation! I loved reading the different messages and hearing some of the positives, the things that made you feel hopeful, and a bit about some of the games you've played. While I wish I could give you all more copies of games, we will do another giveaway like this in the future.

Stay safe, and happy 2024 ahead!

EDIT January 5, 2024:

Minor edit for posterity. All games have been claimed apart from God of War. Each winner of God of War never responded so I'm working down the list through a randomizer to select the eligible winner for this game. I'll update this post one final time as soon as we have an eligible winner that claims this final giveaway.

EDIT January 4, 2024:

There was no response received for the selected winners for Elden Ring and God of War.

I am re-drawing for both these games and will update this post once these final two game codes are accepted by the new winners.

EDIT January 3, 2024:

All games have been claimed apart from two: Elden Ring and God of War. Considering it is the holiday and there may be some obligations, I'm extending the 24 hour window by another 24 hours. If the winners do not reply by Jan 4, 2024 ~ 9 AM ET, they will be forfeit and I will re-draw new winners.

EDIT January 2, 2024:

Giveaway Ended! All winners have been notified, but they have 24 hours to respond. If the winner does not respond, I will re-draw for the new winner the next day until all codes have been exhausted.

I will also be editing this post periodically to acknowledge who won and if they accepted.

I loved reading all these comments, and thanks for everyone responding here and also sharing an optional story! There's a lot of positivity and hope out there, which makes me also feel the same.

P.S. - I really wish I could afford more games to giveaway to you all, but we can certainly do something like this in the future and perhaps make some kind of collaborative giveaway.

Stay safe, and happy new year ahead!

Original Post:

Happy Holidays everyone!

In spirit of the holiday and the upcoming new year, I want to do something nice for you all and give away 10 Steam codes for some of my favorite games that I've played recently!

Games I'm giving away:

  1. ~~Elden Ring~~ - Winner @chaogomu@kbin.social
  2. ~~God of War~~ - Winner @MR_GABARISE@lemmy.world
  3. ~~Hogwarts Legacy~~ - Winner @silentknyght@lemmy.world
  4. ~~Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition~~ - Winner @stefano@lemmy.world
  5. ~~Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered~~ - Winner @OriginalMP3@lemmy.world
  6. ~~Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales~~ - Winner @b_crussin@programming.dev
  7. ~~Persona 5 Royal~~ - Winner @Commiunism@lemmy.wtf
  8. ~~Returnal~~ - Winner @Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de
  9. ~~Tales of Arise~~ - Winner @kamenridermaddie@lemmy.world
  10. ~~UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection~~ - Winner @mwproductions@lemmy.world

How to Enter:

  • Comment on this post with the one game you are interested in.
  • Optional: Share a story about something that made you happy or hopeful this year. Or share a story about a game you recently played that you loved.

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, or spam account, you will not be selected.
  • Moderators of the !PCMasterRace@lemmy.world community are not eligible.

Winner Selection:

  • I will randomly select eligible winners below.
  • 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.
  • If you are selected, you will have 24 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 code successfully.
  • If I do not get a response from you within 24 hours, you are forfeited and a new winner will be redrawn the next day.

Deadlines:

  • You must enter by end of day December 31, 2023, local time.
  • I will start drawing 10 winners either on Jan 1 and Jan 2. (Hey, I have family obligations so I'll do my best to start on Jan 1.)

Disclaimers:

  • This not a sponsored post of any kind. I purchased these keys myself for the sole purpose of this giveaway.
  • They activate only on Steam as Retail OEM keys.
  • These keys come from Game Billet, a legitimate reseller. They do not come from sketchy places like G2A (NEVER, ever do business with G2A or companies like them).
  • Steam Support: How to activate a Product Key - https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/2A12-9D79-C3D7-F870

Proof:

Cheers (the holiday kind),

CatZoomies | PCMR Moderator, on behalf of the moderation team

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[-] massivefan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Happy Holidays, Elden Ring.

A game that I recently played and loved was Bombrush Cyberfunk, I am a massive fan of Jet Set Radio Future and it just felt amazing to play a modern game based off of JSRF!

[-] ArcticAmphibian@lemmus.org 3 points 1 year ago

Merry Christmas and a happy new year! I wouldn't mind getting to try Marvel's Spider Man Remastered; I've a few friends that say it's good.

I've been a bit under the weather over the holidays, which has given me the opportunity to try some of the free games I've been accruing from Epic's giveaways. Art of Rally was pretty good. Nice art style, active development, and an interesting concept rooted in historical events.

[-] clothes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Game: Elden Ring

This year I decided to start biking to work and it's been a complete joy. The commute is fairly long, but it's beautiful and gives me time to reflect and turn my worry-brain off. I'm more productive at work, I feel better about my lifestyle, and my body is really happy about it. I'm lucky to be in a career and geography that allows this, and I'm grateful for all the work that people in my community have done to improve cycling infrastructure.

Thanks so much for doing this!

[-] Sawy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hey, thanks for being so generous. Happy holidays.

If I were to pick, I would like to play Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered.

[-] EdgeRunner@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey there,

Thats Nice of you 🥰🥰,

The best things for me, don't laugh, my life isn't cool lmao, was finishing twice cyberpunk in a month, and then my first use of stable diffusion on my arch station (BTW), I almost did an coming out too :D but this one doesn't count, because its in progress.... ✊

Im applying for Persona5, I really want to give him a go, but if someone is in need prefer this someone, I can buy it after all. That's really lovely from you. 😘

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

God of War is my choice.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a game I played recently that blew me away. It’s a game that is hard to talk about without spoiling the absolute shit out of it. I don’t care for westerns and I always thought, “Ok, cowboy game. Cool. Whatever.”

It’s so much bigger than that. I could write a book about why I loved it so much, but it would spoil it. I’m begging anyone who sees this and hasn’t played it. Put it next on your list. You won’t regret it.

[-] Gumus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered

[-] RexWrexWrecks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'd love to be considered for Persons 5 Royal (or Returnal), please.

One thing that made me happy this year? I became a father. It's really difficult to say whether that makes me hopeful for the future. On the contrary, it makes me kind of afraid? Like ... I maybe have another 25-30 years left to live, but my child will be the in the peak of their life at that time. And I worry about what kind of world I'll be leaving them in. Everything feels more important now than it ever did...

But anyway, on a happy note, I bought 2 games at release this year and they were both quite good (Hogwarts Legacy and Elden Ring) :)

Persona 5 Royal

Thank you for the opportunity! I've been pleasantly surprised at the quality of games I've played this year. Finally finished Horizon Zero Dawn after it "clicked" for me, and Forbidden West is so far an improvement in almost every way. Spider-Man 2 was nearly perfect (besides using a version of a character that I guess was designed to give you more stuff to do). I bought Hogwarts Legacy for my significant other and was surprised to find how relatively complex the combat was (especially compared to the old PS2 Harry Potter games). And I finally got into Shin Megami Tensei with 4 and have had a blast.

[-] Crazychicken563@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's so cool that you're doing this, tysm! I'd love to play God of War if I end up getting rolled, it's been on my list for ages

My happy story is that 2023 was the first full calendar year I spent with my current partner and love of my life ❤️

Happy holidays!

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[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Will not participate, but props to you for organising this, it is really nice 🎄

Some of the games in the giveaway are in my wishlist, I hope in the next year I will get some and play them. Best of luck to the participants and wish a great time playing, best of luck to the moderation team, too. Happy holidays

[-] AndyNarkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

This is really nice. I would like Hogwarts Legacy

[-] Zennyker@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the giveaway! Looks like you went out of your way to get a good diversity of games. Awfully kind of you =)

I would like to try for Spiderman: Miles Morales, please

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

[-] Tosti@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

Hogwarts legacy please, my kids would love it. Merry Christmas!

[-] sam2099@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I would like Returnal if you would be kind.

Happy holidays everyone.

[-] ecdis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hogwarts Legacy would be my choice.

Thank you CatZoomies and a merry Christmas!

[-] Temperche@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I would love to have God of war. This year was the first year with my first baby, and seeing her grow over the months has been a joy.

[-] molme@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Tales of Arise would be my choice!! I'm glad that you are doing things like this, making Lemmy and this community stronger!!!

[-] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Gotta be in it to win it!

Horizon Zero Dawn would be great, never got around to playing those games.

This year has been quite the ride, I started a new job and I've really loved it. It can be a lot of work sometimes, but it's work that I enjoy, so the days sometimes just flash by which is great. As far as gaming goes, I played a lot on my Switch this year. I sunk nearly 200 hours into Tears of the Kingdom. I'm a huge Zelda fan, so I tried to milk it as long as I could before getting the credits to roll.

[-] kdm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hogwarts legacy!

Just picked up a new steam deck and would love to check it out on there

[-] amazingBarry@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My wife doesn't game much buy she is a MASSIVE Harry Potter fan. I wonder if she would play Legacy if we had it.

Thanks for doing good for people.

[-] jared@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I'd like to get Hogwarts legacy for my wife.

[-] Mir@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hogwarts legacy is very cool

[-] Kittenstix@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Returnal

There are 3 cockatiels living with me(I rescued them, not in Australia) and I had a pen with a string attached to it and was writing when two of them flew over and started fighting over the knot in the string, not an active fight just one would start chewing on the knot and then the other would pull it away and back and forth it went for a good 20 minutes.

I really enjoyed watching them passive aggressively fighting over a toy, it was cute.

[-] brumberg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered!

Baldur's Gate 3 is probably my game of the year, but lately I've actually been playing Fortnite with some friends and having a blast in zero build mode. The new update is great, plus you can't go wrong with some LEGO survival mode.

Thanks for doing this, you're a kind soul! Have a wonderful holiday, as well as everyone in this thread. Good luck to you all!

[-] mycus@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered

Insomniac's made some of the greatest games I've ever played

But heck, this game is about 30% of the minimum wage here lol

[-] hangyor@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Horizon zero dawn please and thank you!

I finally had that moment in life where I could sit back watching TV with my family and just breathe and be grateful for everyone and everything I had. Where most of the stress of day to day was lifted and I could just.... be.

[-] Drakime@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Merry Christmas!

Interested in UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection~

The highlight of my year would be graduating from university. It was tough, but being able to graduate was a significant achievement for myself. Made me somewhat hopeful for my future.

[-] fedev@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hogwarts Legacy would be great!

[-] Kaijobu@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Hogwarts Legacy would be my choice.

This year for the first time I tried to cook a seitan roast with crackling. Also vegan potato dumplings as well as bread dumplings and gravy. It turned out quite okay. I would just like to experiment with better spices to make the taste of the seitan roast more intense.

[-] Pwnmode@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I have a new GPU coming and Returnal would be awesome to play on it.

[-] fellstone@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I've always wanted to try God of War.

[-] Hellstormy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hey, I'd be really interested in Elden Ring :)

[-] eluvatar@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Merry Christmas! I'd like Returnal.

[-] Pofski@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Really nice of you to do this, thank you. I would like to put my name in the hat for Miles morales. Best of wishes to you and yours.

[-] ShadowCat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Would definitely be interested in Returnal, my friend worked on the PC port for it so he's been trying to get me to buy it since it released, was just hoping for a good enough sale.

My happy story was starting to contribute to an open source Minecraft mod and getting invited to join the offical development team after a few months, definitely makes me feel like I'm actually good at programming :D

[-] Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Happy holidays :) put me in for elden ring, thanks!

[-] Swagicus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your generous spirit, brought a smile to my face.

Horizon Zero Dawn would be appreciated.

[-] whiskyjack@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Elden Ring, please.

Thanks for this, and Merry Christmas! Hope yours is wonderful!

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Marvel’s Spider-man: Miles Morales.

My son played the hell out of the first one and would probably like that one as well, so I’ll try for that. Thanks so much for doing this and Happy Holidays/Merry Christmas.

[-] Hatecoach@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the opportunity and for being so generous. I've been interested in God of War for quite some time. Funny enough I played Persona 5 Royale all the way through this year, and it was the first time in quite a while I got the opportunity to give the time necessary to complete a game.

Happy Holidays!

[-] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered would be awesome. I keep waiting for it to be 50% or more off but I have to be a patient gamer.

Thanks for doing this. Good luck to all.

[-] Pr0v3n@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ooooh Returnal! I’ve been wanting to play it with a mate for quite some time but that price tag has been quite the hump to get over… Best of luck everyone in the giveaway! Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to everyone! Hope you all have a better year than this one~

[-] ksp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Happy holidays!

I'm interested in Elden Ring.

Thank you for your generosity!

[-] timidgoat@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Happy holidays to you, this is awesome! I think Spiderman Remastered gets me the most from this list. Never had the opportunity to play it.

[-] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Pretty sweet man, been Wanting to play returnal for a while but haven't had the time lately

[-] joat_mon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not wanting to enter the giveaway but just wanted to say what a lovely thing to do for the community.

Happy Holidays everyone

[-] zanyllama52@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Returnal.

What a cool thing, thanks for doing this.

As a fan of titles like Hades and Control, Returnal's unique mix of gameplay elements is right up my alley. My budget has been maxxed lately so I've just been replaying the stuff in my steam library.

Happy everything to everyone!

[-] msp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Elden Ring. For the story, I remember those days that you stay up with your friends doing a full run! Not much time to do that these days, but the nostalgia always kicks in this time of year. :

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I've always wanted to try out Elden Ring but have been holding off on it to work through my backlog. Just finished Bully for the first time and I gotta say it was one of the best open world games Rockstar has made despite the PC jank. Everything about it was just so charming it's hard to believe conservatives lost their shit to this game just for the title of the game.

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