BlackThorny: 1.
Freebies(1) is the list of the CURRENTLY available Freebies.
- During a limited time frame, One can add these to ones "Library" and / or download directly from each Freebie respected page.
When you look at the Showcase page again, they are still there even if they are no longer on the Freebies page. There is no impression the games actually are free on a temporary basis, they are only temporarily displayed on the Freebies page. You can still obtain them through Showcase long after they disappear from the Freebies page.
BlackThorny: 2. Freebies(2) is
a direly long list (I gave up checking it on page 10, so no idea how long it actually is), that Mostly lists demos
- But some are actually complete products that their owners chose to share for free on Indie Gala for their own reasons).
- Potentially one can add these titles to own Showcase, similarly to how a Freebie is presented, though these will probably stay on that list forever and always be free.
When you just look at what is there again, many of these were displayed on Freebies previously. I would know because I checked and didn't have to add every single one of them because I had already obtained most of them. This means they're obtainable even in case someone missed it in an announcement the last time, so this doesn't make it a giveaway inherently. They were F2P the entire time.
BlackThorny: 3.
Showcase(1) in the general site, Supposedly* lists all PREVIOUS Freebies and a couple of other ALWAYS FREE titles (and some demo versions) that were never listed as a Freebie.
- Every now and then a Freebie titles loses its ability to get downloaded from there, usually until it gets again listed as Freebie and thus the Download option should once again be available from the respected Freebie page, Freebies(1) & Showcase(1).
And every now and then, some games on Steam get removed, even if they're F2P. Just like the one that was posted through the Gamehag announcement. What does that have to do with this? They're not being removed on the basis that one being on Freebies was on a temporary basis. It was incidentally just removed, entirely, in fact (I can only recall at least one game that retroactively got removed from Indiegala long after it was obtained and it was nothing to do with the Freebies page). This does not happen out of habit; it's rare, and that's not a basis of calling it a giveaway.
BlackThorny: 4. Showcase(2)
in your own account is only reachable by Moving the cursor over your user and choosing "My library" > then choosing Showcase. Lists only titles specifically added by the user to own "Library".
- Unlike one might assume, NOT all titles are available to be downloaded from their respected pages reachable from ones list.
- BUT, every title in that list is available for download from the user Showcase page itself! That's the only way to "save" a download option for a Freebie.
Unfortunately, there is no search in this list and it is very hard to locate anything there as the list is not entirely Chronological either.
At least it is somewhat better than before the site Re-Design, where it didn't even have proper pagination mechanics...
* I'm not sure it is all though. MY showcase list spans 30 pages with 8 titles per page = 240~ titles.
General site Showcase lists 97 items, as clearly shown under besides the pagination on that page.
I hardly doubt I added over 100 titles that were NOT presented as freebies
I'm very aware of how to reach and access the library. I already covered the scope of the fact it is reachable from there and organized a certain way while missing the "Freebies" label because there was likely no reason for that to exist. You're missing the point of my saying why the games are organized that way.
I already said that basically every game that was on Freebies is literally a part of the Showcase page itself. There is literally no reason for the Freebies page unless there was a specific function, and that function I was saying was that the page itself is a glorified billboard to announce there's a free game. Not giveaway. "Free game". The fact they consistently have these games for free is because they're merely F2P. Literally
freebies - because practically all of those games are F2P. You need only to claim them. Again, it's a degree similar to how it works on Itch, but these are F2P games to begin with. So what I was saying was, all this evidently does not make it a giveaway for this giveaway thread.
If we're gonna have that, you might as well keep announcing every F2P game that comes up on Steam for the same reason people keep announcing Indiegala freebies. They weren't giveaways to begin with.
