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?
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.
The blanket decision is a fair point to take.
Yet the decision also stands for me.
You decide the stakes are in your favor because free and other reasons.
I decide against the offer because I don't condone the strategy and prefer the (current) way Valve does it.
Hell yeah. I'll never buy an Epic game but I'll take the free ones all day. And they've had some bangers this week. And Guardians of the Galaxy was an amazing game (with a handful of glitches) I was happy to pay $30 for. For free it's a no-brainer.
Run them all through heroic Launcher so you don't have to install the shitty Epic launcher spyware.
Wait....heroic launcher effectively replaces the EGL?
Yeah. So does Lutris.
Wow that's awesome. I thought that it was a helper for like Linux based systems...not an entire replacement
I just installed it on my Deck. Pretty cool what it can do, even down to adding an entry in your Steam library automatically, all without the need to have EGL installed.
Yeah, I have it on my Windows install also. Couldn't get Ghostwire:Tokyo running on Linux at all so I installed with HGL on Windows.
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!
The Devs take a pay for timed exclusivity and this helps development.
This is only in the case of Indie Devs. And again, only if the deal is struck before the game is done. For any studio tied to a publisher, it's just money up front for the publisher.
Plus, I remember the stories some Devs told of how egs tried to strong-arm them into going exclusive. Didn't score them any bonus points in my book.
But as I said, everyone has they're own principles.
We agree in the most part, and I'm happy the dev they tried to strongarm had a spine and called them out. That put a stop to that pretty quick.
Any monopolist behavior is bad imho, but I can see room for limited exclusivity. But not copyright, 100 years after the authors death limited... 6 months maybe 12.. that's it.
I'm pretty much against exclusivity as a whole.
I'd prefer if corporations competed with better tech and services.
Instead they divide the playerbase, the game dies quietly (at worst) or slowly cooks until it's released on Steam and then it either does the same there or maybe they get the hoped explosion if it wasnt already on EGS.
Edit: Best case would be platforms dealing in feature exclusivity like SteamOS, Steam Deck, forums, mod integrations, groups, friends, achievememts, rewards (u points/steam points) for cosmetics etc. instead of dividing player bases.
Ironically, Valve are innovating (Proton, Steam Deck...), yet competing products made by bigger companies are hot garbage.
Yes I like free games :)
I'd prefer epic didn't have platform exclusives but at the end of the day it's still on PC and I really don't care that much about epic store stuff.
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.
We all have our own principles.
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.
If it's silly to not claim them because epic bad, it's silly to claim them because epic bad too.
Is this a screenshot from r/freegamefindings? The person posting these comments over the last two weeks has been consistently wrong.
Yeah, like there's been past leaks that were mostly correct, but this time around has been way off.
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.
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