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Epic Games store will be giving away a free game every two weeks, Subnautica and Supermeat Boy first to be featured starting Dec 14
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So that means every business can and is able to feature match all competitors at launch. I'm sorry and I know it's ideal but reality doesn't always end up like that. Business can be successful without doing that. Launch isn't everything.
Good move for us consumers unless Tencent start bringing us some rich Chinese censorship culture.
Epic might have enough Fortnite money to keep that from happening, I don't want a Rainbow Six situation.
Epic might have enough Fortnite money to keep that from happening, I don't want a Rainbow Six situation.
They have Galyonkin heading their store initiative and he implied he's been working on it for some time. This combined with their Fortnite fuck you money and Tencent backing should lead to a much better feature set on launch. Like, you know, a search function.
I'm obviously not saying everyone should be swayed by this alone. Everyone's going to be different. But to call free games a negligible feature compared to trading cards and achievements is ridiculous.
It's a time limited promotion to lure customers, nothing wrong with that... But don't act like Epic is doing this "for the gamers"...
And as others have said, there are free games on Steam, Humble or GOG all the time... Literally
Here is another free to keep game right now
https://store.steampowered.com/app/826600/I_am_not_a_Monster/
Has good reviews and all, so no shovel ware either. Normally 15 bucks I think
And of course valve doesn't pay to giveaway a free Sega game for example like Company of Heroes... Why would they? Its devs and pubs marketing their own games, valve has no say in that. As it should be
And as others have said, there are free games on Steam, Humble or GOG all the time... Literally
Here is another free to keep game right now
https://store.steampowered.com/app/826600/I_am_not_a_Monster/
Has good reviews and all, so no shovel ware either. Normally 15 bucks I think
And of course valve doesn't pay to giveaway a free Sega game for example like Company of Heroes... Why would they? Its devs and pubs marketing their own games, valve has no say in that. As it should be
That refund policy is interesting, I wish they stated the exact amount of time you can play before requesting a refund. I'd imagine you can't play a game for 10 hours and request one.
Seems to be here whether you like it or not. They've got developers signing up left and right, and I see no shortage of interest from consumers. All the goalpost moving about what is and is not competition or positive/negative competition (whatever that means) is totally bizarre.
Giving away decorated games for free is a better fucking feature than some achievements I never look at lmao.
Lol Super Meat Boy for free, what's even the point? The game was bundled 9932234 times in 1$ bundles on PC, it was free with PSPlus on console, don't know if it was given for free directly on PC too at some point, but giving it away now it's just a way to promote Forever.
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Click here to NOT receive emails… huh. Hooray, more spam. Getting all tricksy with the Opt In/Opt Outs already? Not a good look, Epic.
Click here to NOT receive emails… huh. Hooray, more spam. Getting all tricksy with the Opt In/Opt Outs already? Not a good look, Epic.
Lmao. As if steam hasn't given free games. There is stil 0 incentive for me to even consider buying on epic.
Also ppl acting like this is some amazing shit. Maybe if digital distribution was new, but it's not. You wanna Make your client a store, give me features not free games that every single gaming website has already given.
Also ppl acting like this is some amazing shit. Maybe if digital distribution was new, but it's not. You wanna Make your client a store, give me features not free games that every single gaming website has already given.
U should really click on bad company 2 on steam. It was given away for free forever plus may other better games but I guess you talk about competition without even knowing what's happening around you
Subnautica's a great fucking game that I'd highly recommend, glad to see more people get to play it.
Haha, that's some MoviePass level shit. With MP, if you cancel your account, they'll send you an email a few weeks later saying they're going to reactivate your account unless you opt-out.
You're not wrong, but I'm referring to a scenario where Steam is giving away a game out of their own pocket, which is what Epic is doing in this case.
You need traffic and data in your store too. Steam wasn't any where near as feature rich as it is now back in its infancy. Time will tell if Epic can create a store with more/different features to compete at that level.
Time limited promotions aren't features, they are time limited promotions.
Please no, let these fanboy wars stay away from pc gaming!
For me it's simple: I have no problem with using multiple storefronts, but I won't support any store or dev getting involved in paid store exclusivity on pc.
I get you, but Valve obliged everyone to install Steam in order to play HL 2, CS: Source back then.
Nobody wanted to install it, but they had to. Steam and its store grew because of this.
Free games are awesome, but lets see if Epic can mantain momentum.
Eh - other big-publisher stores did this (Origin, UPlay) and I can't say it moved the needle in terms of actual usage. Hell Origin even did one accidentally literally giving away dozens of games per user all at once.
Of course it didn't help that all this happened when the usability of their launchers was something of a joke, but then again none of the launchers are particularly great even today. Hell if I just compare startup experience - the two least offensive ones are GoG and Microsoft Store, and Steam would be the bottom of the heap, still clocking in the worst startup time by a country mile.
Of course - Steam is the sole example of a launcher that actually adds a compelling feature-set, so it's pretty much the only one offering actual reasons to exist.
Which actually is part of the reason why "multiple launchers" is a problem in the first place - most of them are bloated, slow, system resource hogs (obviously, since most are also web-browsers, among other things). And that gets amplified with games as a service operators providing their own launchers as well.
I see people saying Steam doesn't give away free games. What? I have a bunch of free games in my library, the most recent being For Honor a few months ago.
I usually skip most of them bc I'm not interested in the games but there's seemingly always a "install now and keep forever" promo going on
I usually skip most of them bc I'm not interested in the games but there's seemingly always a "install now and keep forever" promo going on
It really didn't just launch. They've had a store for years. They're just finally deciding to make use of it.
I "bought" my free copy last night, even though I have Subnautica on Steam.
You can't even create a wishlist. No cloud saving. No effort whatsoever on Epic's part outside of trying to buy their way in. You also have to check a box to opt out of the developer sending you emails, and spreading your information around.
It is what it is. I'll take my freebies because, why not? But I'll wait to play the money hat games when they're available on better platforms that offer the features I'm accustomed to using.
I'm curious, with the revenue split, will this mean big publishers – those with their own storefront – put their games on the Epic Store as well?
I'm sure publishers with their own storefronts will continue to want to keep all the profits, and not split them at all. Particularly EA, Blizzard, and now Bethesda, who already focus on their own stores. Ubisoft may continue to publish on other storefronts. I can't see much changing with publishers who are going totally to their own launchers/stores.
Is there a feature for this game that should prevent me from getting this game for free?
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/news/the-epic-games-store-is-now-live
They considered it a launch, even though it was previously a vehicle to distribute their own games. I do agree it's subpar atm and the moneyhatting has soured a lot of people, myself included.
So for all the people not stuck in the 90's, how would you opt-out if you missed it? lol
Is it possible?
Is it possible?
Once you get an email it will have "unsubscribe" listed in the fine print somewhere. Pretty typical for these sort of things.
Well they totally tricked me with that opt out. I had read it and figured it said click here to opt in.
Isn't that shit even illegal in Europe? Iirc GDPR has allways to be opt-in, not opt-out.
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Free stuff is cool and I will jump on this. Making storefront "exclusive third party" games can fuck off
Man, will my AMD r7 260, core i7 920 and 6gb ram PC run subnautica.
Man I want the console version I'm not a PC gamer.
Man I want the console version I'm not a PC gamer.