Epic Games Store - the console war comes to PC

Really nice of them to give away one of the most popular video games of all time, the one game that needs more exposure because you know, Epic is pro-developer and all about helping out the small guys so they don't get buried inside the nasty competitive game market right?

Thanks to this ongoing mega sale I'm once again impressed with how abhorent the experience of surfing epic's catalog is. You can't sort games by price, can't browse a dev/publisher catalog, no seperate section for upcoming games, piss poor information on store pages (for example, nowhere in Far Cry 5 page says that it requires Uplay and have microtransactions). It almost feels like it doesn't want me to check out its store, but rather do my research elsewhere first then come back for its candy.

 

There's a rumour that W3 GOTY is the next dish, after this promo ends.

 

I saw that too, but it's part of the sale. Epic would want to avoid the bad PR from people buying it only to see it given away immediately.

 

The coupon works until November, so could be used for Cyberpunk when it releases. Got a coupon when I bought Witcher 3 GOTY, maybe the one on the offer for free will be the original one.

 

imagine buying cyberpunk

 

I'd rather get GTA V or any other game from either Steam or GOG and pay for it rather than get it for free from these shady dealers with their shitty business tactics and Chinese spyware bullshit.

 

Nowadays I just assume that everything wants to look deep into my ass, measure everything and send this data back to the mothership. I mean, do you really think eg. Steam is better in that regard?

 

gog is,the only place i buy games from

 

Than EGS? Without a doubt. The people from EGS are capable of anything. I'm sure you're familiar with the Steamspy situation, among other things.

 

"digital delivery will save us!". look at it now.

i got curious about this so colled codex mod which supposedly turns the trainwreck beyond earth into a decent game. the extended demo won't work and i don't trust "false positives", so alright, i'll bite (most probably the bullet) and buy it. full price. 70 euros. for a shit 6 years old game. which i should have found for 2 in a bargain bin which doesn't exist anymore.
epic is going to do the same: today it's free gta, tomorrow it's double price everything.

 

If you have nothing to hide, it's no problem!

 

Just buy Tencent shares. Then you are profiting if they spy on you.

 

I just snagged Grand Theft Auto 5 Premium Edition. Feels kind of awesome especially with GTA Online included. However, it did take 10-12 hours for Rockstar Games Social Club to send the email verification (needed to play). But what the hell, it's free, right? Fuck micro-transactions though. That's not what I'm about. They won't get a penny from this tightwad if that was their "The First One Is For Free!" intention.

 

GTA5 servers currently are crashing and burning. Not only free on Epic crashed pc servers but also PS4 and XboxOne.

 

The horror....the horror... I find myself playing retro games more and more on my offline WinXP era PC or my old Win9x/DOS machine, because these "online, interactive for your convenience, DRM-lite user-friendly storefronts" are making it hell to do modern PC gaming. (its been console ports for better part of 15 years lets face it) Hell, I think I've been playing my PS1 more and more than playing games on my 5GHz+, SLI-GeForces, RAM-to-the-MAX, Win10 machine because this shit is ruining PC gaming.

Uplay literally made my PC unbootable after first/virgin install. It went deep and did some kernel level voodoo shit that was fixed only by a drive clone restore.

Origin cannot into DPI scaling and keeps redownloading and reinstalling APEX SeasonWhateverTheFuck. Something I wasn't aware even existed and made me scratch my head trying to remember "When did I buy APEX?... wait what is APEX?". Turns out, I didn't buy it. And it's somekind of a online shootan game for zoomers. For whatever reason Origin keeps redownloading it, cannot be hidden or removed either. It keeps glitching and re-downloading other games like Crysis-1 and BF2142. Over and over and over. To the tune of 30+ GB of bandwidth per day and unmeasurable CPU/DISK/NETWORK usage. Fixed only by complete client disabling.

Epic? Turns out this thing is running on an Unreal4. The 3d engine. A online store front using a heavy-duty 3D game engine.... Sigh. it causes random ntdll crashes and there are unexplained CPU spikes to 100%... but then all of them do weird CPU/RAM/DISK/NETWORK spike activity thing. Speaking of unexplained resource usage...

Steam. Offline mode is just a suggestion with this thing. It will either glitch out, demand-online-mode after X amount of time, or re-enable online mode by-itself. Then proceed to re-enable cloud saves (in process deleting more up to date saves) and proceed to download updates (previously disabled) and even games that weren't purchased (hey we think you should try this, free weekend offer/demo). This all, the steam stuffs, happened just this morning... to me...

What about others? Amazon software downloader will corrupt system files, even my tax software decided to upgrade and delete tax data of some two years...

What horror...


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As with free VPNs, the consumer is the real product.

 

If something is free....run away.

 

The spyware meme

 

Steam wasnt the first digital distribution system that dates back to the 80's, in fact Stardock beaten Valve to it. It was inevitable.

 

This is an interesting new feature for a change.



It seems they automatically refunds the differences. I assume Epic will cover the cost, the developer will get revenues from the full price purchase anyway.

 

I'll take free Civ6, as I never got around to it. Doesn't that have a shit-ton of DLC though? No surprise they'd give away the core game in that case.

Though I put hundreds of hours into Civ5 and I think it broke me and I lost the taste for it.

 

Indeed, but what does steam offer recently ? Half life free for one month only , a 1998 game. Epic offered quite a few decent titles . What has steam ever done for us except selling digital version at same retail price ? Both are greedy corporation, but think epic deserves my money more now.

 

Seems counterproductive to me if you want to make money by having a sale, but okay.