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Anyone try this? Is it worth setting up?

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[–] Mora@pawb.social 20 points 1 year ago

I have it running. For epic games it mostly is a reminder to start Heroic, as the auto claim does not work for me. Gog rarely has free games, so I am not sure. Amazon Prime works fine (sometimes it has codes for gog/epic), which can also be used with Heroic.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How would it get past the captcha? EGS always has a complicated captcha

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't. It prompts you to solve it when first logging in.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For me I get prompted with a captcha on redeeming a free game, almost every time

[–] retro@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

I experienced this as well and game up on it. I've been using epicgames-freegames instead. I receive a notification when I need to sign in again and when I need to finish the checkout process.

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

Been mostly borked for me at least. It works as getting notified, but gotta manually claim the games.