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Games companies including Xbox, EA, and Activision have launched a new initiative to give free games to frontline NHS staff. Video games have been a great help to many in combating the frustrations of the coronavirus lockdown but although there’s the occasional free deal the problem is that games are expensive, and many can’t afford to keep buying new ones. With that in mind a new initiative called Games for Carers has been launched, supported by UK industry body Ukie, marketing firm Keymailer, and dozens of video game publishers and developers. Games for Carers was the brainchild of journalist Chris Scullion, who was inspired by being sent a free code himself and then contacted Ukie in order to try and involve games companies on a mass scale.

Lagamorph wrote:I bet there's already at least a few dozen Facebook posts about "Why just NHS workers?"

Good on these companies for doing this, I hope the games are really free to keep forever and they get more companies on board.

Dual wrote:No free games for the armed forces?

Lagamorph wrote:I bet there's already at least a few dozen Facebook posts about "Why just NHS workers?"

Good on these companies for doing this, I hope the games are really free to keep forever and they get more companies on board.

Bunni wrote:I think the reason it applies to NHS staff (same for many companies) is the use of NHS email addresses. It's easy to sift electronically from recognised @nhs.com emails. Whereas adding every care home, independent hospital, council, private sector care establishment means adding so many more email domains which is a challenge. Also, a lot of care staff don't have work emails as they're not really necessary in a paper office environment.

These NHS offers might expand to all care staff with valid ID (another thing a lot of floor staff won't actually have) but linking these to private email addresses leaves the businesses and generosity open to exploitation.

Bunni wrote:I think the reason it applies to NHS staff (same for many companies) is the use of NHS email addresses. It's easy to sift electronically from recognised @nhs.com emails. Whereas adding every care home, independent hospital, council, private sector care establishment means adding so many more email domains which is a challenge. Also, a lot of care staff don't have work emails as they're not really necessary in a paper office environment.

These NHS offers might expand to all care staff with valid ID (another thing a lot of floor staff won't actually have) but linking these to private email addresses leaves the businesses and generosity open to exploitation.

Dual wrote:

Bunni wrote:I think the reason it applies to NHS staff (same for many companies) is the use of NHS email addresses. It's easy to sift electronically from recognised @nhs.com emails. Whereas adding every care home, independent hospital, council, private sector care establishment means adding so many more email domains which is a challenge. Also, a lot of care staff don't have work emails as they're not really necessary in a paper office environment.

These NHS offers might expand to all care staff with valid ID (another thing a lot of floor staff won't actually have) but linking these to private email addresses leaves the businesses and generosity open to exploitation.

What's your NHS email address Bunni? Just updating the GRcade address book.