Epic's free games

KC:D is the only good game they've given for free, all their free games are mediocre at best.

Fortnite singlehandedly keeps them afloat. Enough that they can even consider such a policy.
Faggot CEO should've never opened Twitter in his damn life.

They want people to sign up to their service, the idea is that once people have a library of free games on EGS they will start using it regularly and buying games on it, then once they have a big enough userbase they stop with the giveaways. Also for every free game they sign there's also a condition to add Epic Online Services (EOS) to the game, including in the Steam version. EOS is ostensibly a library for cross-platform multiplayer, however it does data collection as well and has been added to singleplayer games.

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No you can't , this is for EGS games, you can't move them nor detect already existing game installs (when something went wrong with Windows or the client itself)

they gave gta v + online and ark out for free.

Free is free, nobody will complain about free games but artificially taking the choice away from gamers about which platform to buy their game was their biggest mistake. It both shows that once(/if) they are allowed gain a big enough market share they wont actually try to be better than steam they'll simply try and force the consumers hand to buy whatever game they have exclusivety for at the detriment of the gamer.

someone from /g/, explain to me what I'm looking at here

Exactly... If you wanted to buy either of those you wouldnt use egs

Like I said, shit games.

someone who doesn't know anything about how Windows or software works whose sole purpose in life is to get everyone to hate Epic

i wonder what percentage of people who claim the free games actually come back later to play them to completion and what percentage of accounts just claimed all the games and never touched them after.

Mustard gas.

20% come back, 80% probably not

>nobody will complain about free games
Except some devs. Believe it or not, devs have historically fucked themselves by making their games free. Turns out it displays a lack of confidence in the product, and thus no one installs it when its free or buys it when they do have the option to spend money on it. They then don't buy your next product either because you failed to build a consumer base and developed a reputation for putting out a "free" game.
Yet every generation some devs fall for this same trap because they think they will be the exception.

it's scanning basically every folder on your PC for no good reason other than to feed their telemetry

Pretty sure its actually much, MUCH lower than that. I think 20% is actually too high for games people actually paid for, let alone ones people got for free and thus have no sunk cost to convince them to keep playing.

I dont care about the retard devs that fell for epics lies knowing it would inevitably be worse for gamers. I do however am amused at the irony of the "dev friendly" store always seems to screw over the dev.

good morning sir

subsidized by chinese government and data-selling
these games are anything but free

Gaming and gambling are two different things.
I doubt that 20% of those that used epics store to get free games will pay, but going back to play, especially multi player games, sure, easy.

Launcher apparently touches a fuckton of files on your drives, a lot is Steam related for "some reason".

the games they gift come with expansions is a nice freemium model not actually free games

I had a hunch that they were operating at a loss. I know a lot of companies do this as a strategy in the end, but I can't see a lot of sway from other services.

>EGS is nearly 4 years old
>Barely any better than when it first launched
>Took 3 years to add a shopping cart
What the fuck are they doing? They literally have more money than god. It's not like the company does nothing considering all the Fortnite updates and Unreal 5 being a thing.

I've played a few that I wanted to try out, but really haven't had the time to dig in. And the sad part is they are games I have been meaning to play for months and years.

fortnite money well spent. you get your free game, small indie devs get their money to fund next projects possibly EGS exclusives like hitman 3, everybody's happy except angry steam drones.

I just wish the Epic client didn't run like absolute shit

I dont think I've even played a single free game from epic or paid (hitman 3)

some kind of shady subsidization from the Chinese government.

just use gog galaxy bro.

they sell your data to chinks

Chinks are beating you in the game of capitalism, cope harder amerisharts.

Fortnite. That's all that's keeping the company afloat.
EGS itself is over a billion dollars in deficit, but Fortnite manages to cover that.

>How do they get away with just giving out games like this every other week?
Apparently the value of most games post release window is very very low. if you ask me I'm kinda surprised people keep supporting steam's "sales" as if Gabe is doing them some favour. lol

They've been operating at a loss this whole time because they're prioritizing userbase count over everything else. Only way they care more about total user count over paying customer count is if you're collecting and selling data

>free

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user, let me break it down to you. It's fundamentally the first thing you learn in Business 101. Getting customers is more expensive than retaining them, and Epic's entire plan is to try and get as many people to their platform with the belief that they'll manage to create loyalty to their brand. They can afford to do this with massive foreign investments and out of their own coffers with the belief that if they can break through some invisible barrier, they can ride the Steam money train to free cash for the rest of time. The problem is that the investors that are spurring them on are doing so as an excuse to get their claws into Unreal Engine, which is the primary engine for a lot of studios both in games, and in the future with film (Mandalorian used Unreal Engine for their 360 projection screen thing.)

Investors want to see Epic fail so they can grab the scraps, and Epic is desperate to get their hands into the PC gaming market, despite being seen as a pariah by nearly everyone.

>In less than a year, the company behind "Fortnite" has nearly doubled in value — from about $18 billion in July 2020 to nearly $30 billion in April 2021.

The unit value of a digital game is purely arbitrary, based on maximizing profit by balancing single unit cost and the amount of people willing to buy at that price.

I don't buy from epic because they sell in NIS and thus cost more for me.
fuck them like steam

Wow, Fortnite sounds really profitable.

I have over 150 games on epic and have played about eight of them. I claim them every week but most are garbage or shit I already own on gog/steam.

There's zero reason to buy from epic unless they have a better sale for a single player game.

>Scans your harddrive for all sorts of shit
>Even scans your steam stuff
>Can't figure out that you have an EGS game that was installed previously, or that its a game that's just been moved to a different drive
Are Tim's codemonkeys just incompetent?

The Epic store is starting to feel more real to me. So I think the plan is working.

If you think the future of consumerism is digital then investing heavily in a storefront now might look very smart later. I don't think Timmy is thinking about quarterlies.

Loss leading
Simply put, fortnight is so immensely profitable, that they can use it to cover the losses of literally giving stuff away for free with the intent of gaining brand loyalty so that they can eventually overtake their competition.

>the amount of people willing to buy at that price.
nigga stfu you know what im saying. gabe pulled the biggest scam in gaming. it's not about being "digital" it's about single player games on PC having next to zero value post release. literal cock sucking steamies think gabe is doing them a favour by putting worthless games in a nice package.

>overtake their competition
if that happens you can blame steam for not fighting back.

Fuck off Ching Chong

Giving away for free doesnt particullary has to mean loss.
>Give away game for free
>Game will spread
>Other people might buy the game in the coming time
Its the same concept with piracy. I just dont see the bigger purpose.
How does offering free games makes people want to buy things from a store? Its not like EGS considering how known they are.
Not like they are a new buisness or anything

How the fuck did Tim ended up being so insecure?

What's the free game today? I haven't launched the store in a few years

No I don't get what you're trying to say. You make no sense.

Xcom2 and some poor mans ice climber indie game

>heres a 2009 game for free
>20 years later

>Had plastic surgery
>Oh no, nothing worse than a plastic surgery, this will ruin every friendship, what an evil truth
>More backstory
>10iq twist
They cant even explain the rules of the ganes, dont they understand that its an anime and not a manga? Am i suposed to stop the anime 20 times to read everything?
Absolut miss

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