That's reasonable, as long as you can accept that others may have more issues with Epic's policies than the lack of value.
Huh? Dozens of games release on Steam every week (granted only a handful are good). Some are pretty decent hits, like Mordhau or Risk of Rain 2. Some I'm personally just as interested in as any high profile exclusive EGS scooped, like DruidStone which just released. You can complain it's hard to keep track of all these things on Steam given the size of the store and deluge of releases, but you can't say there is no fresh exciting stuff coming to Steam all the time.By amassing a bunch of strong exclusives, it's only made their sale that much more exciting. I hate the fact that they've done it, but I can't say I'm not interested in checking out a few of the games that are heavily discounted. It really hurt Steam imo, because the Epic stuff now looks more fresh and exciting, while a lot of the Steam stuff is the same old thing that's been on sale a hundred times already.
So will supergiant update hades price to allow for the sale in the uk? Also the store has no cart?
Still £13.94 in the UK. :/
Edit: To add, they actually made the price go up in the UK it was like £13.16 or so earlier today. The Cut off for the sale here is £13.99.
Yea you can play the game if you own it since it's just the uplay version.You can play the game, it is just that it downloads the uPlay version and you dont even need to have EGS on, so you might as well get the game in uPlay (where there is a 20% discount sale right now so you will probably get it for cheaper there in the more expensive regions)
I wonder what they're cooking up to keep people spending, though. Sure, I'll take free games, sure, I'll (try to) take Control for $18, but they're basically training the audience to act exactly like what they criticized Steam did, if not more so.Sure. I'll bite on Hades.
Insane generosity on Epics part to just eat the extra $10 discount. Like DUH! They want to get people to spend some money on the store and not just log in to get the free shit but it's a heck of a way to so it.
So will supergiant update hades price to allow for the sale in the uk? Also the store has no cart?
They just updated it, yeah.
Wtf at those prices?What the fuck I love Epic now? Check out this fucking madness:
Control pre-order: 6.6$
Sinking City pre-order: 6.6$
Vampire: The Masquerade pre-order: 5.3$
Close to the Sun: 5$
Total: 16.9$
Impressive discount, but for me - it's not about the money, it's about the message
Control and Outer Worlds getting bought as soon as I get home. Hades too.
Of course. I have no qualms with that. I certainly also think they have a lot of room to grow and improve, and genuinely hope they focus on moves like this rather than exclusivity; there's no consumer benefit in the latter.
oh yeah you quoted me before too. Sorry I didnt remember to reply. Thanks for the info :DYea you can play the game if you own it since it's just the uplay version.
But if you were to buy it the game needs to authenticate it and activate the game on uplay first...THAT is what's broken atm. So even if you buy it you can't play the game as the uplay activation is required.
EDIT: I tried this with Breakpoint. I got the store page AND the discount to show up. But it didn't let me buy it as it said there was a problem.
Nope.
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/the-division-2/home
It's still there, it's just not visible on the front page and it's hidden from search.
I don't think it will work properly, but you can buy it.
Although at least with the UK price it is not really a good price, even with the discount.
I wonder what they're cooking up to keep people spending, though. Sure, I'll take free games, sure, I'll (try to) take Control for $18, but they're basically training the audience to act exactly like what they criticized Steam did, if not more so.
And I don't mean this as a "gotcha", I don't care about them being hypocrites, changing their mind is good, I'm just not sure how sustainable that is, they're losing money in some of these sales from what others have said, Steam never loses money, at most they don't make any like with third party key sellers.
well epic would say, and did say, that by selling a product for cheap you are devaluing it and making the overall market a race to the bottom like an app store. where the discount comes from doesn't really matter in that instance. they said they wouldn't be doing that, which is why they're getting a lot of flak for it in this thread
i would say that offering lower prices by leveraging their value alone (instead of other forces) is fairly anti competitive in a larger scope. a large seller using their own money to discount things at a loss can easily put smaller guys out of business, leading to more consolidation and leading to less competition. like valve will be fine with this tactic but gog and itch.io barely keep the lights on as is, how are they supposed to compete with ten dollars off the top? it's not illegal or anything generally, but loss leaders are not particularly healthy for the market
none of these are good for developers or consumers in the long term
This is hilariousThat's what I think about the EGS and their mega sale.
Yes, it is a free account, with a couple of free games that I added before the Metro Exodus fiasco started.
But that's what they want, people making accounts and getting used to their store.
I'm willing to use the EGS once they stop taking games hostage.
Yeah, I'd love to get some insight into their strategy here, but I'd surmise that they're hoping the sale acts as the "foot in the door".I wonder what they're cooking up to keep people spending, though. Sure, I'll take free games, sure, I'll (try to) take Control for $18, but they're basically training the audience to act exactly like what they criticized Steam did, if not more so.
And I don't mean this as a "gotcha", I don't care about them being hypocrites, changing their mind is good, I'm just not sure how sustainable that is, they're losing money in some of these sales from what others have said, Steam never loses money, at most they don't make any like with third party key sellers.
I wonder what they're cooking up to keep people spending, though. Sure, I'll take free games, sure, I'll (try to) take Control for $18, but they're basically training the audience to act exactly like what they criticized Steam did, if not more so.
And I don't mean this as a "gotcha", I don't care about them being hypocrites, changing their mind is good, I'm just not sure how sustainable that is, they're losing money in some of these sales from what others have said, Steam never loses money, at most they don't make any like with third party key sellers.
Great co op game, enjoyGot World War Z for $6 and then convinced my brother to get it as well so we can play coop.
I may buy more stuff later.
Their servers must be hammered because I got error 404 several times when trying to get to the game page.
What region are y'all in jeez.These prices are insane . Metro exodus is 5$ and control preorder is 17.99$ in my region.
Love that you came in just when I posted haha. Gonna be a good time with these 3 games soon with max fidelity =)