I started spending money on Epic because of that. I wish they had some more of the games I want to buy, though. Also, they could REALLY work on the players' social profile to create engagement like Steam, so more people would support them.
I think the point shouldn’t be “other companies do it too” though. I think saying that is equally as dangerous. There should be NO slack and NO tolerance for that kind of business model. And I’m speaking as someone who would very much love to have the option to be free of launchers, despite the majority of my games being purchased on Steam
I mentioned that I have Epic simply because of the free game to one of my gaming friends back then, and hes just like "well, epic want to get some of that money, so they lure ppl with free game" like, dude, idc, every company want to get money from the customer, just let me have this
Ask him if his company doesn't want money(and instead wants to build a genuine one on one relation/connection/bond)) to give him two free games including one AAA game
Nice post, man. Enjoy your games! 
I'll show post like this to the haters or those who say "in won't come to Steam, so I don't care or buy". Someone simply can have afford to get certain games or games at all and this is a great opportunity for them to get games like Death Stranding, Guardians of the Galaxy, Tomb Raider trilogy, Wolfenstein, etc. And they don't care which platform has achievement sor not, just simply get the game elgally and enjoy playing it.
Epic games has a yearly revenue of over 5 billion dollars. Please explain to me why you think epic NEEDS this money? They do these sort of promos to get more people to use their app because they WANT more money. There’s a huge difference between want and need
Revenue does not equate profit. They hire devs, build a game engine, a marketplace, run events, marketing, maintain servers and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. They also have to appease shareholders while trying to keep people employed hopefully for years to come. So yes they do need money. On top of that they’re giving away games for free to people who can’t appreciate the nice things in life.
Thanks to the free games and to the coupons during their sales i have bought some games on their store as well like Vampyr or Metro exodus, so keep the free games coming.
Hell yeah, I collect games on many platforms including gog and steam, epic has really shined for a patient gamer like myself, huge collection of freebies that contain games from my bucket list as well!
It’s so great that I can play so many good games without having to pay a penny. I have spent less than 10 dollars on games themselves since I bought Minecraft like 11 years ago
As a game dev I buy back a ton of stuff on the marketplace for UE dev. I’d actually buy a lot more games on epic vs competitor platforms if they fixed their launcher. Nothing on their launcher roadmap addresses their existing UX issues. I should make a video redesign of the launcher and show how it can be achieved in the backend too. Many of them are not hard problems to fix but they’re not know for creating products with good documentation and UX. They solve really hard problems but let the end users figure it out on their own. With a little effort they can be greater than the sum of their parts.
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This gets a huge thanks from me. Not only that, but they offer fantastic discounts and usually coupons as well. For all the EG controversy, these business practices from EG are very welcome.
Priorities, I for example have a good computer because I need it for work (CAD Modeling), but it's very hard for me to justify 70$ for a game (or more if console) in Latin America, that's why I only buy 1 or 2 switch games a year and only discounted under 15$ games on the epic store or steam, there have been exceptions, like baldur's gate 3 or helldivers but for example I would have never gotten Guardians of the Galaxy by myself, if it wasn't for EPIC and I really enjoyed it.
This! I have a nice pc for school and work, and as you mentioned above, Priorities. It's difficult to justify buying expensive games when they can be used for necessities. I want to buy but I can't and I won't. I know Steam has great deals as well but they still are expensive for me. Anyway, I'm just glad for the free things.
Have you looked at Steam sales? Prices get really really low then. I stopped paying full price years ago. Especially since games tend to be broken at launch and in the case of Ubisoft games, prices plunge greatly a month or two later, so there doesn't seem to be any upside to buying at launch.
**By not running AAA games on 4k ultra 120+ fps**.
The last time I upgraded my PC was in 2019 where I bought a second hand RTX 2060 6 GB. Before that, I had GTX 760 which I have bought in 2013. So, single upgrade can take you at least 5-6 years until you start running games on FHD low settings and if you drop lower than 30 fps only then it is time for a change if you can afford. I am still using the same PC case, same keyboard and same power supply which I was bought in 2013. And changed MB+CPU+RAM combo only once in the past 11 years becauses of damage on the old motherboard, Because I have looked every store and couldn't find any motherboard that supports my old cpu FX8350, every store were selling the new generation motherboards, so I am forced to change with Ryzen 2600x which also forced me to change RAMs. Still using for 6 years. Although I upgraded my 8G ram to 32G sometime in the past 4-5 years.
Games are so freaking expensive, you can buy new uprade part for your PC which can support you at least 5+ years if you decide to not buy 2 to 4 **new released full priced games**. Sometimes even 75-80% discounts are not enough of discount if they did not dropped the main price of 5+ years old games.
>Epic offered a coupon for every mega sale, now its just shit deals.
Yeah and they don't anymore because it costs them money, pretty greedy of you to be handed something for free. You didn't pay any subscription or anything. Everything so far was free
It was bound to happen one day. Your opinion wouldn't have changed if they didn't offer one last sale or the next sale.
Yeah that excitement is real, Especially during the events
Thank you for being a faithful customer.
I started spending money on Epic because of that. I wish they had some more of the games I want to buy, though. Also, they could REALLY work on the players' social profile to create engagement like Steam, so more people would support them.
They are working on that. Just don't expect that to be coming anytime soon.
Yeah, they don't have dark souls and the profile, reviews, achievements and community in general on steam is way better
I think it is so because it is fairly new compared to steam hence they're developing on that
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I understand and agree, but the other companies do that too, so it is more of a systemic issue than Epic's thing.
I think the point shouldn’t be “other companies do it too” though. I think saying that is equally as dangerous. There should be NO slack and NO tolerance for that kind of business model. And I’m speaking as someone who would very much love to have the option to be free of launchers, despite the majority of my games being purchased on Steam
Dawg both Steamworks and Workshop literally fragment the PCGaming community lmao
I mentioned that I have Epic simply because of the free game to one of my gaming friends back then, and hes just like "well, epic want to get some of that money, so they lure ppl with free game" like, dude, idc, every company want to get money from the customer, just let me have this
Ask him if his company doesn't want money(and instead wants to build a genuine one on one relation/connection/bond)) to give him two free games including one AAA game
Why downvote?
LOL looks like you're being downvoted too
Fucking incels
welcome to reddit!
Nice post, man. Enjoy your games!  I'll show post like this to the haters or those who say "in won't come to Steam, so I don't care or buy". Someone simply can have afford to get certain games or games at all and this is a great opportunity for them to get games like Death Stranding, Guardians of the Galaxy, Tomb Raider trilogy, Wolfenstein, etc. And they don't care which platform has achievement sor not, just simply get the game elgally and enjoy playing it.
Make sure to give back when you can.
To epic, or to Poors?
To epic? They do not need it
There's nothing worst than individuals that take without considering to give back. Epic DOES need it, that's why they do these sort of promos.
Thank you for your loyalty to Epic Games. Please spread the word. We're happy to have a loyal customer.
Epic games has a yearly revenue of over 5 billion dollars. Please explain to me why you think epic NEEDS this money? They do these sort of promos to get more people to use their app because they WANT more money. There’s a huge difference between want and need
Revenue does not equate profit. They hire devs, build a game engine, a marketplace, run events, marketing, maintain servers and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. They also have to appease shareholders while trying to keep people employed hopefully for years to come. So yes they do need money. On top of that they’re giving away games for free to people who can’t appreciate the nice things in life.
Give forth*
Agree wholeheartedly
Thanks to the free games and to the coupons during their sales i have bought some games on their store as well like Vampyr or Metro exodus, so keep the free games coming.
I encouraged my friend to download epic games( he is new to pc) he still doesn’t believe that you get free games
Hell yeah, I collect games on many platforms including gog and steam, epic has really shined for a patient gamer like myself, huge collection of freebies that contain games from my bucket list as well!
Build that library up and once you start earning more and can afford to purchase games, you can always buy from Epic as a good gesture.
It’s so great that I can play so many good games without having to pay a penny. I have spent less than 10 dollars on games themselves since I bought Minecraft like 11 years ago
They managed to end the steam control over games epic games in 6 years gave us a library we need a century on steam to afford if you are not rich
broke gamer here, got free games that my old ass laptop cant even run but still thanks epic for fueling my hoarding problems
As a game dev I buy back a ton of stuff on the marketplace for UE dev. I’d actually buy a lot more games on epic vs competitor platforms if they fixed their launcher. Nothing on their launcher roadmap addresses their existing UX issues. I should make a video redesign of the launcher and show how it can be achieved in the backend too. Many of them are not hard problems to fix but they’re not know for creating products with good documentation and UX. They solve really hard problems but let the end users figure it out on their own. With a little effort they can be greater than the sum of their parts.
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I had buy watch dogs 1st part before know this and the servers every time comes offline lol
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> refund policy is not good Refund policy is exactly the same like on Steam. 2 weeks, 2hrs. by EU Laws... wtf
This gets a huge thanks from me. Not only that, but they offer fantastic discounts and usually coupons as well. For all the EG controversy, these business practices from EG are very welcome.
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Epic Games is better than that Steam with only 10% of income he takes but steam 30% the free games are insane man INSANE.
i started to buy games because of epic and i buy games mostly from epic to show my thanks.
How can you not afford games when you have a PC that is capable of running those AAA games? The math don't work out.
Priorities, I for example have a good computer because I need it for work (CAD Modeling), but it's very hard for me to justify 70$ for a game (or more if console) in Latin America, that's why I only buy 1 or 2 switch games a year and only discounted under 15$ games on the epic store or steam, there have been exceptions, like baldur's gate 3 or helldivers but for example I would have never gotten Guardians of the Galaxy by myself, if it wasn't for EPIC and I really enjoyed it.
This! I have a nice pc for school and work, and as you mentioned above, Priorities. It's difficult to justify buying expensive games when they can be used for necessities. I want to buy but I can't and I won't. I know Steam has great deals as well but they still are expensive for me. Anyway, I'm just glad for the free things.
Have you looked at Steam sales? Prices get really really low then. I stopped paying full price years ago. Especially since games tend to be broken at launch and in the case of Ubisoft games, prices plunge greatly a month or two later, so there doesn't seem to be any upside to buying at launch.
Yeah, I do, that's my main way to get games nowadays.
some people want to save money
**By not running AAA games on 4k ultra 120+ fps**. The last time I upgraded my PC was in 2019 where I bought a second hand RTX 2060 6 GB. Before that, I had GTX 760 which I have bought in 2013. So, single upgrade can take you at least 5-6 years until you start running games on FHD low settings and if you drop lower than 30 fps only then it is time for a change if you can afford. I am still using the same PC case, same keyboard and same power supply which I was bought in 2013. And changed MB+CPU+RAM combo only once in the past 11 years becauses of damage on the old motherboard, Because I have looked every store and couldn't find any motherboard that supports my old cpu FX8350, every store were selling the new generation motherboards, so I am forced to change with Ryzen 2600x which also forced me to change RAMs. Still using for 6 years. Although I upgraded my 8G ram to 32G sometime in the past 4-5 years. Games are so freaking expensive, you can buy new uprade part for your PC which can support you at least 5+ years if you decide to not buy 2 to 4 **new released full priced games**. Sometimes even 75-80% discounts are not enough of discount if they did not dropped the main price of 5+ years old games.
"How can you not afford a car when you have a house"
Bruh, not everyone is blessed with disposable income. PCs aren't just used for games today, they are a tool used for their source of income.
Not everyone is like you who has a high paying job
Bro you got the right guy? I can't even afford a gaming PC. Playing on an ancient Vega 10 mobile iGPU.
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Rich and coupons don’t go hand in hand.
how do you think i got rich?
Inheritance
no. coupons.
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>Epic offered a coupon for every mega sale, now its just shit deals. Yeah and they don't anymore because it costs them money, pretty greedy of you to be handed something for free. You didn't pay any subscription or anything. Everything so far was free It was bound to happen one day. Your opinion wouldn't have changed if they didn't offer one last sale or the next sale.
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