After canceling Prime, I’ve been able to reevaluate the necessity of that ultra-fast, always-free shipping and have found it mostly unneeded. Amazon still ships free when your cart is above $35, albeit a few days slower. After leaving Prime, I’ve been happy to wait. The products still arrive relatively fast, and the selection is still excellent. I’m also less inclined to make impulse purchases. If the tech giants can have their years of cost-efficiency, I guess I can too.
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2024
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Yeah I cancelled my Prime that I had for about 7 years a few months ago and... Its fine. Better maybe cause I don't buy something stupid online I didn't need. I try to find stuff locally first and free shipping makes me able to just buy something if I need to but haven't found anything I NEED to buy from them.
I missed Prime Video but honestly with ads I can also just use Tubi and it's the same jank cheap movie experience without supporting Bezos.
I do think it's funny that I know some people who did the whole prime day this year and complained they bought garbage and that the prces were the same when they had to return the items and buy a new one but also the waste still hurts me
I only really use it for the prime gaming free games :').
How does that work? Do they require another launcher or other kind of drm?
They have their own launcher. Other times its gog.com, steam or epic.
I got things like both KOTOR games, deathloop, the force unleashed series and a few others.
Sometimes the games are given via their DRM storefront, many of them are codes to Steam, Epic, and Humble
You need their launcher to install them, but I believe there is no "DRM" as such.
Once you claim the game, it's yours to keep even if you unsubscribe from Prime.