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Because people only use the scam store for free games i assume.
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Scam store? Granted I havent used the EGS in a while but never had any issues playing the games I bought. Did it change hands recently?
It's more that people are pissed at them and, in typical internet fashion, will call them anything that comes to mijd. They do suck tho
EGS allows AI generated content in games and NFT games. Back then Steam harshly banned NFT games while EGS openly welcomed them, and what’s a bigger scam than that?
and fortnite, to buy cosmetics that are useless
Can confirm, this has been me for years. I have like 200 games and maybe purchased 3-5 where most of them were heavily discounted and could use those coupons they gave out for extra discounts. The only thing I play is fall guys and I got that before epic took it.
yep
I can get a free game from them every week, often more than that, and I still forget it exists for months at a time
I wonder how much all those free games are costing them. Do they pay the developers to give their game away for free?
I don't think they're paying retail price per copy, but I'm pretty sure they exchange some money with an up front payment. Makes you wonder if they expect people to pay for other games on the client, or if they're getting their money back in other ways.
I'm sure it's so you visit the store once a week. For online stores visits are the only way you get sales, so they want you to visit as often as possible.
There is probably some data that the client sends too. But that is the defacto standard these days.
It's funny though, they really don't seem to be selling very hard to me when I claim the weekly games. I have no intention of buying there but seems like they would try harder.
I've noticed they often give away a base game that just had/about to have a DLC release.
From what I remember, Epic pays the developer a flat fee to gibe the game away for free.
Epic is the store where I redeem games I will never play.
I already do that on Steam and itch.io, though, is it really worth it to add a third launcher to the pile that doesn't even support Linux?
To me it's alright solely because of Heroic Games Launcher that covers the Epic Store and GOG. I must admit I rarely end up playing the games from Epic, but they do give away some really good games from time to time. To be clear, I would probably never actually buy anything from Epic for a few different reasons, but getting free games is cool.
I view it as a backup in case I ever get banned or locked out of my account from Steam or Steam has a major outage. At least I have Epic as a backup. It costs me nothing except opening it once every week and adding it to my library.
I wouldn’t be that upset if anything happened to my Epic account though. I have zero attachment to them.
Supposedly I'm up to over 400 games on Epic without any purchases through the platform AFAIK and I've probably played like 10 of them.
My epic account is using an email I no longer have access to. I've sent them dozens of emails trying to get human support about this. I don't trust their automated system, because for all I know it's just going to delete my account for not responding to the email they send me.....to the email address I no longer have access to.
I've sent them emails saying I will not purchase any games until my existing account, with my existing games, is allowed to move it's associated email over to my current email. So the fact that I haven't bought any games from them, is their own fault. GOG and Steam both had no issues with this. I just contacted their customer service, jumped through their little hoops, and then boom, account changed.
Same thing with Sony. And Nintendo.
Most companies have this thing where they WANT to make money. I buy games from Sony, and Nintendo, and GOG, and Steam. I've bought zero games from Epic. I refuse to buy a game that I may lose access to, simply because I get locked out of my account for not having access to my email.
Now given that I've bought literally hundreds of games (which may have crossed into the thousands since my last time I counted. It was 945 last count, but that was a year ago), hundreds of games from Sony, and now I'm shifting more into PC games this past year, I'd say Epic has cost themselves hundreds of dollars in the past 6 months from me alone.
Well to be fair losing an email associated with an account makes recovery difficult. How are you going to prove you are the legitimate holder of the account if you don't have other verification systems on file? Would the way Steam recovered your account work for Epic?
How about profit?
Don't you need an epic game account for ue5?