The Epic First Run programme allows developers of any size to claim 100% of revenue if they agree to make their game exclusive on the Epic Games Store for six months.

After the six months are up, the game will revert to the standard Epic Games Store revenue split of 88% for the developer and 12% for Epic Games.

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86 points

Elite Dangerous was their free game for the month awhile back. I made extra accounts and snagged free copies for people that wanted to try it, because I adore that game and love having people to fly with.

You know, oddly enough, no one wants it, even for free, expressly because they don’t want to deal with the dog’s anus EGS launcher.

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30 points

Yep, I used to pick up the free games, then realized I’d never play any of them because I expressly do not want to deal with the EGS launcher.

It sucks, because it really is better for the devs, but steam is just so much better

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6 points

not in the long term it’s not

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1 point

it really is better for the devs

This is said a lot but… Is it really? And if so why should I, the customer, care?

I can’t think of any other good or service in my life that I would go out of my way to buy from an alternative store so that the manufacturer makes more money. I don’t choose between Aldi and Whole Foods based on whether the manufacturer of my chicken bullion cubes makes more margin with one or the other. It’s just fuckin weird.

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10 points

Dude I have purchased Elite 4 times now, 1 for me and 3 for my mates

I wish they would do SOMETHING with the game to make it more accessible, all my friends gave up after realising how much grinding they had to do

That game is a ruined orgasm. So much build up and anticipation for fucking nothing.

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My biggest complaint about E:D is that star citizen’s flight mechanics and ship design ruined the game for me. Star Citizen has a wider variety of ship designs than E:D. Additionally, the ships I’ve tried in SC are incredibly responsive, to the point where even the nimblest E:D ship feels like a whale. However, that’s about all I can say for star citizen. I mean, it’s getting there, slowly but I swear to god the world is going to end before they finish the fucking game.

Meanwhile, E:D is very much a complete game in a massive galaxy. Sure, it may not have as much detail as CIG is trying to put into star citizen, sure it may not have the complexity of star citizen, but that doesn’t matter if you can’t finish your game. However, E:D’s ships suck.

Can we take star citizen’s good half and E:D’s good half and make one complete game please?

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1 point

Once you trick out an Anaconda you “beat the game”.

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4 points

Which is kind of weird since Elite has its own stand alone launcher, right?

All my stuff on Epic I just install and either run direct on the PC or add to steam as a non-steam game on my deck.

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2 points

If you still happen to have one handy I’d love a copy! Missed this one and finally getting a card that will let me play it

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2 points

DM me and we can set up a Discord chat

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13 points

Same with GTA when it was free. Only got one person to use one of the many and they only used it like twice.

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5 points

I claim every epic game through the website, but I actually haven’t bothered installing the epic launcher since I did a fresh install of my OS months back. I’ve got other non steam launchers like GOG installed. So yeah, I’ll take the free game, but I don’t feel like spending money on the epic store even if it were more heavily discounted.

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-14 points

You’ve got the GOG launcher… Which can be linked to the Epic launcher… But don’t want to install the Epic launcher to play the free games they give…

Fucking hell you guys are pathetic.

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11 points

I’m already claiming them. You want me to actually play them too? What more do you want from me Tim.

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