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
Yeh, but It’s still EGS… So, do we care? Are… are we caring about this?
Free games are free games, IMO it would be silly to reject them just because Epic bad. I can install them on my Steam Deck through Heroic without even having to use the official launcher.
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.
I ended up pirating all the game I own through Epic store. That’s how bad it is.
Yes. I like free games, and while I won’t pay Epic a cent, I’m not so self-righteous to look a gift horse in the mouth.
They’ll learn I claim every free game, and they’ll learn what I install and play, but whatever they learn from that will be wasted effort, since it will never turn into a sale.
not (…) look a gift horse in the mouth
Because those folks were not duped at all.
Better to look behind it as well.
I will vote with my wallet, my data and my decision that I don’t support this giveaway behaviour to increase usage data so they can present great data for their investors.
Okay. That’s your prerogative. My point is that nobody gets to decide that for me with blanket statements like, “Do we care about this?”
Yes. I care about it. I can make my own decisions, thanks, and I like to be informed so I can make them.
competition is good for the games market. Steam needs a well funded co petitie of note. This helps drive innovation and keeps prices down.
Yeah, but what EGS is doing isn’t competition.
If they had stuck with being a cheaper alternativ for Indie Devs and maybe followed it up with even more favorable deals for using their Engine and being on their platform, I wouldn’t have had a problem with them. It would have been a good strategy to compete with Valve.
Like GOG did with retro games. Tapping into something Valve didn’t focus on.
But they didn’t. It all came down to a shitty attempt at Storefront Exclusivity. And that isn’t competition, that is just removing customer choice.
Yeah I sort of get what you are saying. But I see it as less of an issue. The Devs take a pay for timed exclusivity and this helps development. But in the end the exclusivity will go away as devs will in no way keep part of 5heir consumerbase from their product. And I can wait… But I see your point fo sho!
Is this a screenshot from r/freegamefindings? The person posting these comments over the last two weeks has been consistently wrong.
Free…. until the Epic launcher says otherwise.
Nothing in the list interested me tbh
I’ve heard genuinely good things about the Guardians game. Ghostrunner is also quite fun for scratching that high-paced action in bursts, although I will say each level is a bit like a puzzle with semi-limited solutions, but it does feel really good when you complete a run.
Each is definitely of its genre though, if you’re a Civ/Factorio type I can see these not being for you, for example.
A Plague Tale: Innocence has already been given away for free in EGS once. I have it in my library.
