Regarding Epic store having it Free, and having to pay for it here on Steam even if you own RCT3 Platinum already.

[Supperdude9]

Epic Store will always do their best to undermine Steam. That's nothing new. Keeping games from being released on this platform, attempting to hold a time-monopoly on the PC. Epic will never get my money for their platform.

Regarding having to pay for it again.

First off, you need to understand something. Atari owns RCT3 Platinum, and the reason WHY it got taken off Steam in the first place was because they owed Frontier millions for this game. Atari refuses to pay, so that's why this game got caught in the crossfire.

RCT3 Complete is MADE by Frontier. The guys who actually put in the effort into the game. So buying it is supporting Frontier. You're not going to get a discount or a freebie from an Atari owned game over a Frontier game. Atari are being scummy right now, so if you want to support Frontier, go ahead and open your wallets. If you still have Platinum, then you can keep it. Or you can support Frontier for their efforts. Your choice. But that's the situation right now.

Epic wants to cheat to steal you away from Steam, and Atari are being scummy. That's the drama surrounding this great game. What you do with this info is up to you.

[GamerXT]

Epic are desperate, so they offer free games because they know how cheap a lot of people are and cant resist free stuff, although hey, if it works, it works, more power to them I guess.

[TreeTrunk]

This game has shown me that I would rather pay money for a game on Steam than to have it free on that store.

If anyone wants to play there though, they can use this as it's just another launcher https://github.com/derrod/legendary

[grody_antagonic]

momma always said to not take gifts from strangers. That is even more true if said stranger has proven himself to be an absolute [censored].
Do not worry, I'd never take anything from these people. Not for free, not even if they'd pay me.

[cool skill]

This is absolutely no reason whatsoever to pay for it here. You can get it completely free of charge. And for devs, it will still be much better to pay for it on EGS where they receive a much better cut.

And no it isn't standing for anything to try to boycott Epic.The ones actually standing for something are those who strictly do not pay for any DRM games whatsoever. So will typically get games on GOG. Since GOG outright prohibits DRM. Unlike Steam, Epic shop offers no DRM. Just like any shop that sells games, it's up to devs if they want to attach DRM to their games. So very few games on EGS even use DRM.

It's even highly likely that this game will be DRM-free on Epic just like most all games on there with few exceptions. Yet release on Steam, which is a DRM, will more likely have DRM on it. Since the DRM coding step is part of the default Steamworks process for releasing Steam games.

While I myself am willing to take the DRM up the rear in order to play games I love, I have mad respect for those refusing to pay for any DRM games. And insane respect for CD Projekt for prohibiting it on their entire GOG shop as a policy well as games they develop. Glad to say, the games I've purchased from Epic have been DRM-free (not by intention) - The Outer Worlds, Ashen, Journey to the Savage Planet, etc.

So yes, it is truth about Epic keeping games from getting released on Steam. But a better way to put it is rescuing games from getting locked onto Steam DRM. Which for sure all of those games would have been if released on Steam. Just like Sekiro and DMC5. Even Remnant was trapped on Steam DRM for over a year before releasing on EGS. And those are just a few examples of many more in 2019 that got locked on Steam for DRM. And thousands over the years.

So yes. Respect for anybody actually standing for something by refusing DRM. No respect for avoiding games on one shop while paying for games on a DRM shop. Who stand for absolutely nothing. Everybody should be glad they aren't forced to install AOL and keep it running in order to access the internet. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for accessing games we own offline installed in our own PC.Thank you Epic for rescuing many games. Thank you for giving this game free, among many other insane giveaways.

[Serpentrax]

Originally posted by Duke Nukem:

♥♥♥♥ the CCP. I'm not funding concentration camps.

Bad news, TenCent is sticking its blood-drenched tentacles in many game studios, including Ubisoft, Paradox and...yes, Frontier. :(

[Joe Kaze]

I don't really see how it's greedy for Epic to give away this game for free while still compensating the publishers. That seems pretty decent to me.

[Mc.Sug4r]

Originally posted by Supperdude9:

Epic Store will always do their best to undermine Steam. That's nothing new. Keeping games from being released on this platform, attempting to hold a time-monopoly on the PC. Epic will never get my money for their platform.

Regarding having to pay for it again.

First off, you need to understand something. Atari owns RCT3 Platinum, and the reason WHY it got taken off Steam in the first place was because they owed Frontier millions for this game. Atari refuses to pay, so that's why this game got caught in the crossfire.

RCT3 Complete is MADE by Frontier. The guys who actually put in the effort into the game. So buying it is supporting Frontier. You're not going to get a discount or a freebie from an Atari owned game over a Frontier game. Atari are being scummy right now, so if you want to support Frontier, go ahead and open your wallets. If you still have Platinum, then you can keep it. Or you can support Frontier for their efforts. Your choice. But that's the situation right now.

Epic wants to cheat to steal you away from Steam, and Atari are being scummy. That's the drama surrounding this great game. What you do with this info is up to you.

Usually, Epic pays for each free copy of any game (or pay the developers quite a good money for the whole giveaway) and I don´t think this is any different. So getting it on Epic will also support Frontier, but also your own Wallet (and it will strike on Epic´s wallet)

[ChrizLee]

why all the pro-epic profile is private only ?? creating a steam account just for trolling ?? is this epic new marketing strategy or what??

[Kenuty]

No they offer free game because this game is a joke
literally all they did was change the word Platinum to COMPLETE, tried this out on epic store already

[Mc.Sug4r]

Originally posted by ChrizLee:

why all the pro-epic profile is private only ?? creating a steam account just for trolling ?? is this epic new marketing strategy or what??

Nice coincidence actually, as I just put my profile private like two hours ago. Ofcourse, for different reason. Although I must admit that I´m not Epic hater. I just accept it and if they can afford all this giveaway, than okey. It´s their investment and the way they run business.

[Press start to begin]

Epic doesnt even have a review system or community pages. Nothing that can give customers some kind of rating per game, extra details to help them make that choice to get the game or not.
Was playing the outer worlds via epic recently and i wanted to review it but it just wasn't possible on the platform. if they wanna give away huge amounts of free quality games let them but it won't change my first choice which is steam.

[Mc.Sug4r]

Originally posted by Kenuty:

No they offer free game because this game is a joke
literally all they did was change the word Platinum to COMPLETE, tried this out on epic store already

I believe the point of this release is somewhere else. It´s just platinum re-release with HD support they couldn´t add, because Platinum was maintaned by scummy Atari. With this re-release, they got rid of Atari. Ofcourse, since Atari legally own Platinum edition, they cannot give you this one for free. On the other hand, I don´t think that HD support is really needed, I actually can play RCT Platinum without problems on modern PC/monitor. So as long as you have Platinum edition, there really is no reason to care about this release.

[vato loco [GE-S]]

I'm disappointed by Steam in many ways...i used to love Steam.
Now i GAF about Steam...
I take the FREE game on EGS, you guys don't have to!!!
It's a free market competition which is good for the customers.
I wish any store that compete with Steam the best!!!

[Supperdude9]

Originally posted by Press start to begin:

Epic doesnt even have a review system or community pages. Nothing that can give customers some kind of rating per game, extra details to help them make that choice to get the game or not.
Was playing the outer worlds via epic recently and i wanted to review it but it just wasn't possible on the platform. if they wanna give away huge amounts of free quality games let them but it won't change my first choice which is steam.

This. Steam allows your voice to be heard. Epic doesn't and does what it wants. Cliffy B is one of those SJWs who thinks people should shut up and do as they are told, their opinions be damned.

Epic has NO interest in hearing what you have to say, nor any interest in it being heard on their platform at all.

Say what you will about Steam - you can voice your opinion on here.

[GamerXT]

So why people not like Atari ?