Blade-Runner
Supreme [H]ardness
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Borderlands Handsome Collection and potential Witcher 3 would be some amazing freebies
Indeed. Now just chuck in Cyberpunk 2077 so I can cancel my preorder.
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Borderlands Handsome Collection and potential Witcher 3 would be some amazing freebies
Even if EGS were to upset the entire market and gain 90% share in their first year that still wouldn't mean we must like their utter contempt for gamers.
that was already given out somewhere a few months ago, cant remember if it was humble or egs but i got it.Borderlands Handsome Collection
that was already given out somewhere a few months ago, cant remember if it was humble or egs but i got it.
yeah i think so or you can add them on. ill look when i get home. actually google says yes, free dlc.are the 4K Ultra Texture Packs included as part of the Handsome Collection?
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/here-are-the-next-three-free-epic-games-store-games/
Don't know why I buy shit anymore, stuff gets released for free faster than I can play it.
worry about what? it works fine and isnt loaded with a bunch of crap.I still worry about Epic and their launcher in general. Some of the exclusives are interesting but will eventually be on Steam.
worry about what? it works fine and isnt loaded with a bunch of crap.
that i can totally agree with. there really isnt a cart, everything is dealt with individually. they should fix that.shopping cart,
What do you mean by this?Steam really need to offer developers more options. All my purchases have been on Epic for the past year due to selection and price. Steam can only compete with exclusives. Steam's prices look like a expesive gamble compared to what Epic and Tim S. Is doing.
I don't know what he means but I can tell you many of my friends from developing countries started pirating a lot less and buying games a lot more thanks to epic games store supporting regional pricing in their countries whereas Steam didn't. Steam would ask them for 1-2 weeks salary for a single game, whereas EGS would have way more reasonable/affordable pricing for the same games.What do you mean by this?
I don't understand all this salivation over free games. I mean if any of the games that they make free were even remotely interesting to me I'd have already purchased them and finished them.Can't believe all the games that have been free on epic....steam has never had any decent game for free lol wait take that back tomb raider that's about it...btw I got this borderlands free are those games any good?
I don't understand all this salivation over free games. I mean if any of the games that they make free were even remotely interesting to me I'd have already purchased them and finished them.
Why would I play a game I wasn't interested in? Being free won't turn a bad game into a good game.
Nothing about salivating lol its just the fact that nothing is ever free on steam...anyways I'm the type of person who waits for games to drop in price before buying bc I have such a huge back log. But the point is I missed alot of games namely gta5,assassins creed games, hyper light drifter,wwz, etc so getting them free is pretty cool.
I don't understand all this salivation over free games. I mean if any of the games that they make free were even remotely interesting to me I'd have already purchased them and finished them.
Why would I play a game I wasn't interested in? Being free won't turn a bad game into a good game.
So price is suddenly an argument now, but it isn't when talking about their exclusivity shenanigans?Not everyone is wealthy enough to afford every game they want.
Uh, oh let's not overthink this, blessed ignorance is blessed.Some people may find them interesting and getting them for free is a plus for them. Lets not over complicate things.
Frankly if I'd ever see anything interesting on their giveaway list that I don't already have, I'd rather buy it elsewhere than give them the time of day. But so far the only interesting games on there I already owned.I'll only redeem something I may be somewhat interested in. Most 2D indie style games I won't bother with. AAA or AA games
I have some games on multiple platforms and I hate it, some games I own the retail version, the steam version, the uplay version, the origin version bah, it's ridiculous that there are even multiple versions of games.I get, even if I have them on another platform already. I have some games on both Origin and Steam, or EGS and Uplay, or some other combination. Redundancy is good.
I don't understand all this salivation over free games. I mean if any of the games that they make free were even remotely interesting to me I'd have already purchased them and finished them.
Why would I play a game I wasn't interested in? Being free won't turn a bad game into a good game.
But of course nobody talks about origin giveaways because EA man bad. Epic man good.
i dont understand your misunderstanding?! people grab free games, so what? you dont want to fine, no need for another rant...I don't understand all this salivation over free games. I mean if any of the games that they make free were even remotely interesting to me I'd have already purchased them and finished them.
Why would I play a game I wasn't interested in? Being free won't turn a bad game into a good game.
Why would I play a game I wasn't interested in? Being free won't turn a bad game into a good game.
They aren't adding much value to the community with these free games, this is just optics. And sadly it works, because most are too blinded by "free is free".
Frankly if I'd ever see anything interesting on their giveaway list that I don't already have...
I'd rather buy it elsewhere than give them the time of day.
And not because I'm "ah so wealthy". Games are not expensive, if you can afford a gaming PC i'm sure you can afford to buy a game every now and then. It's not like there are dozens of great games every year.
They are not giving away brand new AAA games, but games that already through 99% of their market cycle anyway, so wealth is not an argument here.
I have some games on multiple platforms and I hate it...
And when I want to play them I have to figure out which platform I played them on last, and on which platform I have the most complete version of the game. You can't spin this as a good thing.
Redundancy is good, why?
But of course nobody talks about origin giveaways because EA man bad. Epic man good.
I feel like you've misused a meme here because it doesn't make sense no matter how I spin it. EA has built up a lot of ill will with consumers over the past decade+ while, for many, experience with Epic has mostly come from Fortnite and these free games. Epic's exclusivity deals don't bother me at all but I wrote off EA on general principle like 6+ years ago - and it had nothing to do with them running their own store. If Origin was offering good free games people would talk about them, but almost nothing in their catalog interests me whatsoever even for free. Meanwhile, I got GTAV and Civ VI free from EGS: we aren't talking World of Goo anymore, these are premium games that are now in my library at no cost to me (except my souuuul!).
Publishers control the price of games on Steam. When a game is free on Epic Games Store it's because Epic is compensating the publisher directly.Nothing about salivating lol its just the fact that nothing is ever free on steam...anyways I'm the type of person who waits for games to drop in price before buying bc I have such a huge back log. But the point is I missed alot of games namely gta5,assassins creed games, hyper light drifter,wwz, etc so getting them free is pretty cool.
It takes serious dedication to deliberately misconstrue what I've written as "finding fault".It takes some serious dedicated to find fault in free games.
Calling me blinded is ironic since I never said free games were a bad thing.TL;DR: Free games is good. It's good for me, and it's good for the industry. You're just too blinded by your disdain for EGS to see it.
I'm sorry, but I just have to press X to doubt on this one. You literally loved every free game they have given away, and didn't own any of them already? I'm sorry I just find that very hard to believe.Most of the free games on EGS have been great. Many have been indie games that either I hadn't heard of, or didn't know enough about to know I might enjoy. Some have games that were on my radar, but I was waiting to hit a certain price while I clear through my backlog. Some were games I didn't think I'd like, but tried anyway because they were free. Quite truthfully, Epic's free games have been one of the best things to ever come my way in the realm of video games. I've played a lot of games I otherwise never would have, and gotten into genres that I would have never expected to enjoy. It's been a remarkably positive thing for me, far beyond just the value of the games themselves.
I'm real happy for your success story, no I really am. But this is just anecdotal and not an universal. Most people who like civilization already owns it, you have toadmit that.An argument could be made that this literally strengthens the entire industry. I've started purchasing games that would have never even existed to me without EGS having giving me something similar for free and opening up a new genre. The same has held true for my friends. As an example, myself and a buddy are avid Civ 6 players. We have a regular gaming group that consists of 6 people... the other four wanted nothing to do with the game. We've tried for years to get them to give it a look, with zero success. Then it was free last week on EGS... every single one of them downloaded it. Every single one of them enjoyed it. All four of them went onto buy the expansions. One of them also picked up Old World (a recently released competitor to Civ), and the rest of the group went from not giving a shit about that game to "we'll check it out when early access is over". I'm also confident that when Humankind drops, the group will look into picking it up. That's a lot of money getting funneled into a genre that these people have spent years saying they have zero interest in.
Redeeming them to be in their backlog, or just to have them. And don't tell me it ain't true, I've seen numerous people state that exact thing.Considering how many people are redeeming them, you're wrong. If people are happy and seem it as a positive then that is value to them.
What about them? If the games were so interesting to them why didn't they buy them already? And please don't insult me by saying money issues, if you have a gaming PC you don't get to call that card.Good for you? What about the people that don't have the games? You're using your personal situation and opinion and are trying to apply it to thousands of people.
No it's called voting with my wallet. Aren't you people constantly urge people to do that? Oh, but when I vote differently than you then it's pettiness? LOL.That is some grade school level pettiness.
Many people don't even play the games they purchase. They have a mile long backlog. Adding a few free games to it is not a game changer, and certainly doesn't make epic the saviour of the gaming industry that never needed saving by them in the first place.Its simple really. Someone sees a game for free that they're interested in playing, they redeem it.
I'm not, glad we cleared that up.Okay then don't get extra copies in the future. Everyone else will do what they want, especially when free games.
It's quality of life issues, that epic has a pretty bad record at already.That is nitpicking beyond belief. Pretty much all the clients make it easy to figure out what DLC you have. Many people won't care where they last played the game. If you can't figure these things out then fine, don't get free games on other clients and delete the ones that you do have (you can remove games from your Steam account) to save you the trouble.
Especially if you misread it. Note that I said what is the point of owning one game on multiple platforms.That is such a dumb question, but I'll answer it.
I'd need to own all games on multiple platforms for these to be realistic arguments. Having multiple copies of a few games is not quite the safety net I'd be comfortable on relying on. I mean if any of my accounts gets hacked there are dozens of other games on it that I Don't have multiple copies of. Loosing 64 of 65 games in case of a hack doesn't make much of a difference.- One account gets hacked.
- One client has faster download speeds.
- One gets overloaded and you can't download any games, see the first few days of Steam sales.
- Other technical issues with one client.
As I've said "free is free" blinds people.When the cost is nothing, I'll always get extra redundancy when possible. It takes me about 7 seconds to get a free game on EGS/Steam/Origin/Uplay so if they're games I liked or semi interested in playing, I get them. Same with thousands if not millions of others apparently.
I literally have no idea what you mean, what issue?You're memory is bad, EA's issue with Origin that allowed people to get dozens of games for free did wonders for them.
Except I never said it was stupid, I said it is not as much value to the community as people make it out to be. And it's about making themselves look good while they take away things with their other arm. You know things like consumer choice, platform independence. No biggie.But we all know the reason you're actually complain about free games is the part in bold. The beauty of free things is you don't have to get them, but clearly many people do. Your stance is that if you don't want them, then its stupid,
I don't read either of those cesspools, I make up my own mind based on research and experience.and Epic is bad because you read a reddit/Twitter post somewhere about some alleged wrong doing.
I'm not peddling anything, when I last said that some games still couldn't be purchased outside of the EGS. But sure, go ahead and disregard linear time.Last I checked you were still peddling the whole "can't buy EGS games outside of EGS"
It's not regional currency, it's regional pricing. I don't know the current state of that since you know, there is no real comparison since the games are exclusive to them.and "no regional currency options" narrative despite both of those not being true for over a year.
Except epic doesn't publish any games, they pay publishers or independent developers to keep their games off of other platforms, but especially steam.Epic publishing & funding = them stealing games.
Sure there is an epidemic of that. Yeah just as I thought you have to reach back 10 years, to even get some examples that are nothing like what epic has been doing dozens of times in the past year, if not hundreds of times, I lost count.Valve publishing & funding and tethering to Steam = great!
Outright buying studios is hardly the same as passing an envelope to them under the table to keep their games out of other stores. That's literally criminal underworld tactics.Somehow Valve gets a pass for what they did to Left 4 Dead, Portal, TF2 and DoTA for doing the same things, funding studios and then outright buying them.
Yeah, you've written a right wall of text for someone who doesn't care.I can't care personally, but the mental gymnastics some play because of some false outrage can be comical at times.