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Epic Games Store now open!
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You're talking about a company that can't even implement a shopping cart on their store.
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Damn. Incase anyone is interested....P games just contacted me and confirmed.... Mechwarrior 5 not supporting VR. Gutted. I was so looking forward to it but think I am out now
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Dont miss out on Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden for free, its quite good. Expires 22nd I think. 
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Dont miss out on Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden for free, its quite good. Expires 22nd I think.
Ooo nice another game given away for literal pennies on Humble months ago... Epic sure are generous!
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I get that it is the current thing to hate Epic for just about everything, and indeed I am not defending them for some of the stuff they have done/are doing... but complaining that the free games are not good enough is scraping the barrel a bit isnt it?
Some of the games undoubtedly have been cheap at one time or another but equally there are some top notch games in the list of freebies too.
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I think its more of a case that repeatedly over the last few months stuff has been on sale at humble and then a few weeks later is free on Epic.
It doesn't take a genius to work out that "free" is cheaper than "dirt cheap" so its becoming more sensible to just wait and not buy stuff on humble deals any more.
Shows what type of world we live in when people are complaining that giving away free stuff just isn't good enough lol
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To be honest (humble monthly aside) imo the Humble bundles are not a patch on what they were before IGN bought them... There have been a few nice ones but they are few and far between imo....
The monthlies can be great, but it is a lottery with what you get (I was dissapointed i did not get last months which came with Yokus island, i would have been all on that had i known)
Yeah, it says a lot about these people to be honest, and nothing good!
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I haven't seen an interesting humble bundle for over a year I think.
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The price paid to obtain the game is only one aspect of the cost (and when the game has been so cheap elsewhere it's not even worth much)...
It says a lot about people who will happily sign up to just about anything to save a couple of quid as well...
Sort of like saying "ooo look a voucher for one free beer at the dingiest most dilapidated bar over in the most dangerous crime infested part of town - what are we waiting for let's get down there! It's free!!!"
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I dont know you, so this isnt specifically aimed at you however I cant help but wonder how many people are up in arms about epic and their data harvesting.......... and are likely posting their anger on such sites as Facebook.
You say about people signing up to anything.... Epic is an online storefront for video games....... Valve pioneered this and it is true I hated it, and pushed back against it for the longest of times. If i buy a game why should i be forced to install bloatware crap and tie it to an online platform? At yet that is exactly what valve introduced.... not to mention my pinball table which is not usually online, randomly every couple of months will refuse to let me access my steam games without going online to do an online check..........
The fact that other people are following suit is natural. Epic take it 1 step further... buying up titles which were already on steam is not cricket and I dont like it...... Like i said i am no Epic fan but i do think it is getting out of hand making out Epic to be some black hat bad guy vs other companies who are the good guys which seems to be happening all over the place with epic now.
This notion of personal privacy online just seems so quaint and last century to me. Hell dont google pretty much have a record of every internet search tied down to an IP stored somewhere? **
**or perhaps that is of some fictional tv program, not sure, but it rings true.
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Why are people getting so worked up about this? Shock, horror - massive corporation is behaving like, well, a massive corporation!
EGS are not doing anything special that any other corporation wouldn't do when trying to quickly break into a dominated market.
Personally I think we need more competition in this space. Having one choice is never good for anything, ever.
EGS are not doing anything special that any other corporation wouldn't do when trying to quickly break into a dominated market.
Personally I think we need more competition in this space. Having one choice is never good for anything, ever.
Free is better than a couple of quid mate, and to be honest, it sounds like you have some experience with dilapidated bars.
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I completely agree. Privacy is dead. That isn't what I see as the problem though - it's not good to let Epic continue this road of simply trying to "buy" their way to a monopoly by snatching up exclusives (which is a valid strategy I agree) but seemingly with no intention of providing a good experience for either the consumer or the developer community at this point (and don't gimme that "it'll come in time" - it was a weak excuse to begin with, but even still time has passed now since they put up their road map, and they aren't sticking to it; not even close)... They've even begun to show now that really they don't care that much about developers either (at least, not beyond how securing their games furthers their own aims) despite all of their posturing to the contrary... If Epic prove that money is all you need to become the king of gaming distribution I don't see any way that will work out well in the long run
Free is better than a couple of quid mate, and to be honest, it sounds like you have some experience with dilapidated bars.
Oh wow dude you really got me there, what a zinger
did I meet your mum in a dilapidated bar? Is that the level of jabs we're going for here to defuse an argument?I completely agree. Privacy is dead. That isn't what I see as the problem though - it's not good to let Epic continue this road of simply trying to "buy" their way to a monopoly by snatching up exclusives (which is a valid strategy I agree) but seemingly with no intention of providing a good experience for either the consumer or the developer community at this point (and don't gimme that "it'll come in time" - it was a weak excuse to begin with, but even still time has passed now since they put up their road map, and they aren't sticking to it; not even close)... They've even begun to show now that really they don't care that much about developers either (at least, not beyond how securing their games furthers their own aims) despite all of their posturing to the contrary... If Epic prove that money is all you need to become the king of gaming distribution I don't see any way that will work out well in the long run
Oh wow dude you really got me there, what a zinger
Your majority contribution to this thread is to harp on about how much you hate what epic are doing, we get it, way to beat a dead horse. The original post was simply pointing out the free games offer for those interested.
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Thanks for the info, subscriptions are good for some people but do not fit well for me.Yokus Island is on the MS gamepass
last sub I bought was a 3 month pass for Viveport.... in that time I did 1 tour of the galaxy "experience" which would have cost maybe 3 quid to buy............... and that is it.