It’s a tweet from user PC_Focus_ that states:

The next Epic Store FREE games has been leaked:

13th game: Ghostrunner

14th game: Escape Academy

15th game: 20 minutes till dawn

16th game: A plague tale innocence

17th game: Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy

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17 points

You should redo them then.

I claim every free game Epic offers, not because I actually want to play them. I claim all those games because it costs Epic money. And that is my goal.

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6 points

It doesn’t cost them any more. They already paid an estimate of sales.

All you’re doing is telling them is that they’ve got your attention.

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3 points

Then I’m at least skewing their estimates I hope.

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2 points

More likely you are just padding their account numbers that they use to show investors

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I remember hearing things like the epic game store launcher rifling through your steam games and contact lists, etc. I just don’t want to install anything like that and running a VM just for that seems silly.

Edit: article summarizing the claim and counterclaims.

https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-steam-data-reddit/

Sounds like a little bit of epic not being clear in what the software does and a little of the Internet running with a misunderstanding.

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15 points

With something like the heroic launcher you don’t even need to install the Epic games launcher. Just redeem the game through the website and play them through heroic.

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5 points

That’s good to know, thanks!

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4 points

Nothing against you, but that sounds entirely made up, given how hard it is to link different services via credentials.

Even Heroic Launcher and Playnite need you to log in before they can get that info.

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Here’s an article that summarized the claims and counterclaims.

https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-steam-data-reddit/

It sounds like a little of EGS not being as upfront as they should have been and a little bit of running with a misunderstanding by the Internet.

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Luckily EGS doesn’t even work on linux :-) Heroic is vastly better anyway.

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15 points

If it’s silly to not claim them because epic bad, it’s silly to claim them because epic bad too.

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I never stated I’m not acting silly. It’s true I don’t really like Epic nowadays so why not state my opinion this way? It’s a bit of a twist in “vote with your wallet” after all.

The games are not free, someone has to pay for them, at least something. And if it ain’t me…

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