Ended giveaways
Giveaways that have finished. Kept because publishers repeat them.
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How it works
Why ended giveaways stay up
Most trackers delete a giveaway the second it expires, which makes them useless for the question people actually have: was this free before, and is it going to be free again?
Publishers repeat giveaways constantly. Around sales, around anniversaries, in the run-up to a sequel. A game that showed up once usually shows up again, so nothing here gets deleted when the timer hits zero.
What to use it for
Checking whether the thing sitting in your cart was free last month. Seeing which stores actually run giveaways, and how often. Spotting a publisher's pattern before you pay full price for something that goes free every spring.
The record starts the day this tracker did and runs forward from there, so it is not a history of every giveaway that has ever happened. What is here was logged while it was live, on the day it was live.
How accurate it is
Entries are written from the sources while the giveaway was live and left alone afterwards.
If a deadline moved or a promo got pulled early, the date recorded here is the one that was published at the time, which is not always when the offer actually stopped working.