How to redeem promotional free games?

[Akaz]

Hey,

For exemple, this game is currently free on demand, looks like package for it is 622258, but requestFreeLicense([622258]) doesn't seems to work, shall I use another function for promotional free games?

Thanks!

[Dr. McKay]

Use the game's appid with requestFreeLicense, not the packageid you want. Steam will figure out which package to give you.

[Akaz]

Hey, thanks for the answer

Sadly I just tried with 

client.requestFreeLicense([640890], (err, grantedPackages, grantedAppIDs) => {
  log("Adding 640890");
  if (err) log("Error adding 640890 : " + err);
  else log("New packages added : " + grantedPackages + " | New apps added : " + grantedAppIDs);
});

But it didn't added the game. I got the result :

New packages added :  | New apps added :

Am I missing something? Or maybe it's because it's promotional free?

[Dr. McKay]

Yes, promotional free licenses are not the same as free-on-demand licenses. Those have to be added through the store site.

You can use steamstore's addFreeLicense method to acquire a promotional free license.

Edited August 26, 2021 by Dr. McKay

[Akaz]

Thanks, I didn't knew this module

I'll have a look 

Edit : Thanks, that's what I was looking for 

Edited August 26, 2021 by Akaz

[4049_1572836826]

Hey, I also tried adding a free license through the steam store but it keeps returning me an error  Malformed response

steamStore.steamID contains the correct ID

subId get from working (200) request, response is empty

Any Help ?

Im try "manual" request : and this working 

Edited November 17, 2023 by 4049_1572836826

[Dr. McKay]

What version of steam-store?

[4049_1572836826]

v. 2.3.0

 I don't know, I temporarily replaced the function, with request post (last image) and this is works. 

[Akaz]

Same issue here with 2.3.0

The code provided above worked great