Split the Freebies tag into Free2Keep Freebies and Free2Play Freebies

NatsuNight

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Vicky

100 upvotes from me.
It's extremely irritating to get a "Freebie" alert, only to see that it's either a

"Free" Demo or
Free to play during the weekend
New Free to play (forever) F2P game
etc.

Latest example from today -

These are NOT what we think of when we hear "Freebie". Only paid items that are being given away to keep forever should get the tag "Freebies".

Detilly

The dumbest thing I've read on gg.deals ; free demo.

Seriously? Demos are always free...

remike

Detilly Seriously? Demos are always free...

No, they're not. On Playstation, you need to subscribe to PS+ Premium to get access to game trials 😃

As for this feature request, I actually totally agree with you, guys. However, we're going to need some help naming news categories. How would you name them after splitting? We don't want to have 9873457 different categories, so ideally I'd split freebies into two separate categories. But I have no idea how to call them.

Vicky

remike
Why am I not surprised! Sony trying to milk every ounce of money it can. 😃

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I see GG currently has these tags -

All news
Deals
Bundles
Freebies
Blog
Subscriptions
New releases
Pre-orders
Giveaways

I'd suggest the following changes -

Freebies -> Keep the name, but use this tag only for paid items that are being given away for free to keep forever.
"Free Trials" -> Add this new tag. Use this tag for games free for the weekend play (not keep forever), game demos / trials etc.
New Releases -> Use this existing tag for any new F2P game release, instead of using "Freebies" for those.

Detilly

remike WTF seriously...

I think Vicky got a good idea.

Or; Freebies, Free Trials and Demos

remike

I think there's more than that:

Freebies to keep
Free trials
Beta codes
Alpha codes
Free weekend
Free week
Free demos
Free To Play
Free with subscription (prime gaming, ps+ essential)

As you can see, making the categories too precise results in many, many new categories. We don't want to multiply categories in such a way - it makes it difficult to manage.

Vicky

remike It seems like you're overcomplicating the categorization here. Many of the categories you mentioned can be easily grouped together. And sorry to say, but you listing them separately here smells like a bad-faith argument.

These are essentially the same:

Free trials, Free demos
Alpha codes, Beta codes
Free week, Free weekend
Freebies to keep, Free with subscription

However, even this can be simplified further:

Freebies → Use this existing tag only for "Freebies to keep", "Free with subscription".
Free Trials → Create this new tag to cover all temporary access types: free trials, demos, alpha/beta codes, free weeks/weekends, etc. It’s reasonable to consider demos, alpha/beta codes, and limited-time access as forms of game trials, so the "Free Trials" tag works well for all of these.
New Releases → Use this tag for any new F2P game releases, instead of lumping them under "Freebies."

This approach keeps things organized and prevents the "Freebies" tag from being overloaded with temporary or trial content.

Only ONE new tag.

Detilly

Vicky "Free with subscription" are in subscription, where they should be. Except that, I agree with you.

remike

Vicky, thank you for your proposal. We'll discuss it internally and make a decision soon.

As for your accusations of bad faith - I can assure you that there is none. I'm happy to make this work better for the community.

boddyboy

Hello,

People usually don't see beyond their own interest. I'm not like that.

Though I don't agree with splitting anything as I personally want to know about every kind of "free", I think that if the splitting road is taken, it should be complete and well defined. There is a filter menu that allows to group multiple tags, so having more detailed tags is actually not a problem for me.

I see "trials" as free to play for a limited time, so I agree that timed trials, alpha/beta tests, week/weekend trials are all trials, but I don't mind if they were split into distinct tags.

Demos are not the same as trials for me and I would rather have a separate "demo" tag for them. I see "demos" as limited content games that can be played forever (time limited demos, you can restart and play the limited time again, contrary to a trial that you can't play anymore after the time has elapsed).

I don't agree that F2P releases should go into the existing "new releases". They may be tagged "new releases" but they should have their own "F2P" tag (either new or becoming F2P).

This amounts to:
"Freebies" → full game free to keep, free with subscription (the latter with additional "subscription" tag);
"Trials" → Temporary access (X hours, alpha/beta tests, week/weekends);
"demos" → limited content free to keep;
"free2play" → game released or becoming free-to-play (the former with additional "new release" tag).

Regards.