Epic Games plans to give away 17 free games during its annual holiday sale for the Epic Games Store, the company announced on Wednesday.
Tbh I love Steam, but I think it’s nice with a little competition. Definitely checking this out
Then go promote GOG or itch.io. Don’t support companies with monopolistic behavior
Destiny is free on all platforms. So this isn’t anything
It has three expansions bundled with it. I’ve never played, but it’s my understanding that these three expansions represent the initial must-buy content.
Ah of course. However I read recently that someone had the base gane and extra products but Bungie decided it wasn’t making enough money so removed the base game and has gone a different route. Removing the players items and game data.
So I’d highly recommend nobody touch destiny with a barge pole. Bad consumer practice. Would prefer if they disappear from the gaming industry
I vowed to never give them a dime after the $100 beta test that was Destiny 1 Year 1
Exactly. S few this company
How long can they keep giving away free games when their store has never made a profit?
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holy crap. I did not realize they owned gog.
As long as it takes for them to build a userbase. They can afford giving away games constantly until users start using the store for real.
Jokes on them i just login to get free games lol
Just pirate it at that point.
Why its being provided to me for free and completely legally?
Exactly, it’s the most ethical piracy.
…ever heard of a little thing called Fortnite? I hear it makes a tiny bit of cash money for them.
Ok well people spend money on Fortnite and we get free games, that’s a good deal.
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Sadly people are losing sight that this is a strategy by a capitalist company to entice users onto their service.
Nothing good will come from that.
They can all be free, I’m still not touching your launcher.
Same. I’d rather pay for my games than be bribed to use their launcher.
I think there are alternative FOSS launchers that you can use if the issue is the launcher itself. On the deck I use Heroic, I think there are also for windows.
Playnite on Windows is the premiere experience for multilauncher support. Highly customizable, and it has a UX that’s much better to lay-users than something like Gog Galaxy 2.0. Integrations are well QA’d and updated. It’s wild that this was built as a FLOSS project because it’s better than what billion dollar companies have done by a mile.
My only gripe with Playnite is how inconsistent feature support is in themes. You want to see your achievements? This theme has support, but it won’t show data from How Long To Beat. This theme supports both, but cannot show console icons for emulated games… Hopefully this will change when version 11 is out next year, with more features from plugins being moved to core.
Other than that, it’s great. I use it on a PC as a DIY console, Windows is set to start it automatically, and all my Steam games are here, alongside all my console games which I have downloaded as ROMs to centralize them all on a single device.
It’s the general business scumminess towards consumers. I want Epic to fail for it.
In that case, consider they have to pay for every download of free games (at least server costs) ;)
Did someone say “bribes”? I take bribes!
I find it’s a good way to demo games. Get it free, if I like it enough after a few hours I’ll go buy it on GoG or Steam and continue to play it on there.
There is no need to use their launcher, as there are open source alternatives. “legendary” is a tool that can download sand install games from epic, but it’s command line only. Fortunately, there is also “heroic”, which is a GUI for it and honestly a pretty good one. Can also handle GOG games.
They work well for me, haven’t had epic’s launcher installed in a very long time.
That’s a neat fact I’m going to store away if I ever want to play a game from epic haha
I hope they give away AAA titles.
Usually a couple towards the end
Until Bungie gives me back the content I already paid for, that company can rot in hell. I feel for the devs who point stuff out to leadership and tell them exactly what they need to do to fix their reputation, but the leadership saying “player’s still love us” means that piece of shit scumbag, Pete Parsons, can go get dry fucked by splintering balsa wood.
I won’t play the Legacy Collection, not even when it’s free. Fuck you, Bung-hole.
Little off-topic, but bungie is struggling right now. They may get fully absorbed by Sony since they are not hitting their revenue targets.
I should only hope so.
Oh well, maybe they should have made better games instead of looter shooter grind fests that were an obvious trend and not actually a fun fucking game play loop.
Look Epic, those are very nice presents but as I told you many times already, I am happily married to Steam and I plan to keep it that way. Please respect my decision and stop sending me gifts, it´s getting awkward and honestly you´re making an ass of yourself.
I am polygameous
And that´s just one of the reasons it would never work out. We simply don´t fit!
PSA to everyone that has never played Destiny 2.
tldr; Epic is giving away Destiny 2: Legacy Collection. You’ll have to give Bungie whole bunch more money if you really want to play. Don’t give Bungie your hard earned money because Destiny 2 is now pay to win and they’ll always try to screw you. Don’t get sucked into this game and give this horrible company your money.
According to the article, Epic is giving away Destiny 2: Legacy Collection which contains The Witch Queen, Beyond Light, and Shadowkeep. If you’ve never played Destiny 2 and think this seems great because now you can start playing Destiny 2 for the first time. This isn’t so. You’ll still need to spend bunch of more money if you want access to seasonal content and they’re really not an optional. Just when you thought you’re done, you’ll then have to buy the Dungeon content which isn’t part of season pass. Oh by the way you can’t just buy season pass with money. You have to purchase their premium currency and then buy season pass with that currency which means you’ll always have a left over premium currency. This is definitely scammy and it’s by design.
Destiny 2 is dystopian microtransaction hellscape. They’ve been adding layers of microtransactions for years and this is the result. If you want to see how bad it has gotten watch this video by Aztecross.
Don’t give Bungie your hard earned money because Destiny 2 is now pay to win and they’ll always try to screw you. Don’t get sucked into this game and give this horrible company your money.
Bungie was given 1.2 BILLION to retain talent. They decided to fire 100 people going back to the Halo days.
That right there ended any money I’ll ever give to Bungie.
I mean basically everything in the game is optional, you just miss out on some story tidbits here and there. I have never bought seasons, dungeons or anything like that and I still have 400+ hours in the game. If you want to 100% everything, yes, you need to buy a lot of stuff, but you can still have tons of fun with just the expansions.
I was thinking about playing destiny 2 for a while until I got this video recommended to me randomly. After watching it, all I can say is the developers have to pay me more than I earn on my job for me to even consider playing it.
i bought that game full price. 60 dollars
still better use of my money than black ops 4 was
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Or epic shuts down their store randomly 5 years from now and all the games are gone. Digital content baybehhh
Oh no, all the free stuff i got and never used is gone
Nice! Alan Wake 2 + the Remaster for 30 bucks seems like a great deal!
Alan Wake 2 is a masterpiece! Fuck Epic though, I pirated it and will buy it on sale on Steam whenever that happens.
Lol I get downvoted because I use Epic…🤣
I really don’t care what launcher I have to start (funny thing, for most epic games you don’t even need the launcher) and don’t know what the problem is with it and really don’t care though. And regarding Alan Wake 2, don’t forget that Epic funded the game and made it possible for Remedy do develop it…they are also quit happy with the partnership so I guess it’s a win for Remedy.
I pirated it and will buy it on sale on Steam whenever that happens.
I really hope you do, pirating sucks!
pirating sucks!
Not as much as supporting anticompetitive practices such as digital marketplace exclusivity.
keep telling that to you ;)
Under normal circumstances it’ll never happen because it’s not a regular 1 year exclusivity deal, it’s Epic being the publisher.
It’s more likely to have its console versions emulated before landing on Steam. And even if Epic puts the game on Steam, Epic will still get the money.
No thanks. We don’t need a spyware on our systems.
Heroic games launcher :3
Can you claim these freebies in that?
You can claim the freebies on the website from any web browser.
Yeah used it before not the best to say the least m8. I tried to play celeste and couldn’t even get past the intro although when heroic does work it works wonders
Yes I am aware of that launcher but I don’t want to support a shady company.
Can I have the longer version?
Epic copied some Steam files to its own folder without informing the users. When people found out, Tim Sweeney ( CEO of Epic Fail) said that it was a bad implementation.
And the Steam files where Spyware?
I won’t support any store that sabotages Linux on purpose. Just earlier today I read a lame excuse for them to not support Linux with Fortnite despite only needing to click a single checkbox. Of course, it’s easy not getting tempted since I don’t have a windos system to begin with.
You aren’t supporting them by accepting free games and then not using them. It costs them money to give them to you.
We found out in the Apple lawsuit that the games are fixed price for Epic, so you can download or not as you wish - individually you do not make their cost go up.
Nice try fed, still not gonna get on their app
I got excited but unfortunately the first game is Destiny and they don’t even mention the rest of them. That’s probably the one game I wouldn’t even take free.
I have never played Destiny. Just out of curiosity, is it that bad ?
Edit : just read this comment and now I kinda get the idea.
Still not convincing me to open an account with epic games. Lol. Maybe I’m lazy … Or don’t have time !?
Nah honey
