Troy total war free
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I don’t think Total War is anywhere near as popular as GTA V. Although only having 24 hours to claim might be a factor.
Because they were titles that you already had? I mean there has been some real corkers given away for free, most notably Subnautica, Kingdom Come Deliverance, Overcooked, Soma and Surviving Mars, though yeah not much use if you already have them
Is that not competition though? they fought for an exclusive, got it and are giving it out for free for the first 24 hours?
without competition that game goes on steam on day one all full price.
I find that a funny attitude to have. If games are free, just add them anyway. You never know if in a couple of moths/years someone starts gushing about a game, you may already own it and be able to give it a go. I found that happened with Subnautica.
i have too much crap on steam I paid for and still didn;t plau and never will.
not collecting games for the same of it, it's a waste of time
couldn't care about any of those
Man, it's like 60 seconds every Thursday to add a game and checkout! But I can't force you to do it.
Ah, not your sort of games? Well that's fair enough, if those arent your types of games then I guess they aren't of much use either.
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maybe I would have enjoyed subnautica but I didn't really feel like playing it.
I had less time on my hands though and gaming wasn't important to me at the time.
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By doing that you (and I mean this generally, not you specifically) are basically telling Epic you agree with it's practices, I don't personally so I am just avoiding it, and anything that gets released on it.
Plenty of good games still coming to Steam, if something is free then you are the product, nothing is given freely out of the goodness of their hearts. It's a bribe by another name.
Saying this, people can do what they want, I would not try and force people not to, everyone can make up their own minds on this one.
Tbh a lot of what they are giving away, or have given away, has also been on the game pass, so I'd prefer to just play the titles there.
I'd much rather play a game on Epic than game pass myself. I've not had too many issues with game pass, but enough that if I have a choice, Epic it is.
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Yeah fair enough it's not for everyone either, I have been fortunate not had any issues with it, but the underlying game data is stored in some weird windows store based system which makes modding harder.
More competition is good, and my issue with Epic is more around exclusivity of games than it is on the giveaway front, as exclusivity reduces competition and choice as a consumer. I can see that they are going hard and fast on the exclusives still, at least I don't think they have made any more major blunders with them (like Exodus being pulled from Steam last minute).
As a developer, I could definitely see why they take the Epic money, but even that polarises potential consumers a bit.
Mind you I am a bit older, their strategy would probably work well as they have a lot of gamers coming up from the Fortnight ranks, and those people would not care where they got their games from.
Time will tell I guess, if Fortnight cash dries up can they carry on doing what they are doing, and for how long?
I can see the logic in your thinking, its not a choice I could follow though. If I refused to buy from companies whose practices I disagreed with I'd end up with nothing at all. I certainly would end up not having Sky Sports or BT Sports, definitely wouldnt have Netflix or Amazon Prime, almost certainly wouldnt have half the white goods in my house, most likely wouldnt have my car, wouldnt have flown on half the airlines to holidays that I've had over the years and so on. Its an admirable standpoint you have but I just cant apply that way of thinking to my life as I would simply miss out on far too much and make my life much harder than it is, and I guess at that point, once I have bent my principles for one company, its a case of in for a penny in for a pound.
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I take each game on it's own merit, I don't avoid publishers/developers due to past games/issues or exclusive deals.
The only rule I am really following is that I won't buy a game if it's an Epic exclusive, even when it stops being one, and tbh it's not been detrimental so far.
If I was cutting off my nose to spite my face then I'd reconsider, but as it is I am behind on games I need to finish/play!
Even some of the games I wanted to play which were exclusives wound up on game pass for me to play anyway (Metro Exodus is a good example of this). This seems to be because sometimes the exclusivity deals only restrict them from winding up on Steam.
The only game that would really put me into a twist would be if Cyberpunk 2077 went Epic exclusive, that would be the hardest title to avoid. But they've basically said it will never happen for that title.
In this way I am not really stopping myself enjoying games, I can't think of any Epic exclusives I am really desperate to play right now.
Really?
It's a great way to bring in new players and boost sales for dlc's and future games.
Yup... Really!
My uncle is into these games and I never really battered an eyelid at them until this was announced, might take a peak on YouTube later. What was the last one they released as I've noticed there are quite a few of them!
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The saga ones aren't usually as good.
You probably want to check out like Three Kingdoms or Warhammer/Warhammer2.