How is Epic giving away so many free games?

[random guy]

I still prefer Steam, but damn so far: Rime, Stories untold, City of Brass, Kingdom new Lands, more that I missed and supposedly more coming, these aren't $1 indie clones, how do they afford giving them all away?

[BloodShed]

They have

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULeDlxa3gyc

Probably.

[Longhaul]

Besides the new Metro I got there, I hit them up every 2 weeks for what ever free game they are handing out.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Riedy:

Fortnite/Tencent money. It's a PR move for them, they said one game every two weeks for a year(?).

This ^. The publisher/developer dont lose anything, they get paid by Epic for the "free" games they release. Its just a marketing move by EPIC, same as all those "exclusive" releases they get by throwing their Tencent money around.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by magicalpiano:

I still prefer Steam, but damn so far: Rime, Stories untold, City of Brass, Kingdom new Lands, more that I missed and supposedly more coming, these aren't $1 indie clones, how do they afford giving them all away?

Read this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader

[BloodShed]

Just for the sake of information.

Here are all the games (to date) Epic gave away for free:

Axiom Verge
City of Brass
Kingdom New Lands
Oxenfree
RiME
Slime Rancher
Stories Untold
Subnautica
Super Meat Boy
The Jackbox Party Pack
The Witness
Thimbleweed Park
Transistor
What Remains of Edith Finch
World of Goo

[Longhaul]

Originally posted by BloodShed:

Just for the sake of information.

Here are all the games (to date) Epic gave away for free:

Axiom Verge
City of Brass
Kingdom New Lands
Oxenfree
RiME
Slime Rancher
Stories Untold
Subnautica
Super Meat Boy
The Jackbox Party Pack
The Witness
Thimbleweed Park
Transistor
What Remains of Edith Finch
World of Goo

Yup.. Got em all lol.

[wuddih]

this is not the dev/pub giving them away there. that is epic, and they paid for it.
epic has enough fortnite money. hundred thousands of moms credit cards and chinese investors paid for this.

btw if you have amazon prime, this should be most of what you could've gotten for free on twitch:

10 Second Ninja X
1979 Revolution: Black Friday
>observer_
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build
Aegis Defenders
AER Memories of Old
Antihero
Baseball Stars 2
Battle Chef Brigade
Bomber Crew
Brütal Legend
Breach & Clear
Broforce
Broken Age
Candle
Clustertruck
Cosmic Express
Crossing Souls
Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla Ex)
Darksiders: Warmastered Edition
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Dear, Esther
Death Squared
Deponia
Deponia Doomsday
Devil May Cry HD Collection: Devil May Cry HD
Downwell
DubWars
Fatal Fury Special
FRAMED Collection
Frozen Cortex
Frozen Synapse
Gone Home
GoNNER
Guild of Dungeoneering
Gunpoint
Hacknet
Hard Reset: Redux
Headlander
Heavy Bullets
Her Story
High Hell
Hotline Miami
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Hue
Hyper Light Drifter
I, Hope
Innerspace
Joggernauts
Jotun: Valhalla Edition
Kabounce
Kathy Rain
Keep In Mind
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
Kentucky Route Zero
Kingsway
Layers of Fear
Majesty 2 Collection
Majesty Gold HD
Manual Samuel
Metal Slug 2
METAL SLUG 3
Mr. Shifty
Next Up Hero
Orwell
Orwell: Ignorance Is Strength
Overcooked!
Overload
Oxenfree
Pikuniku
Pillars of Eternity
Poi
Psychonauts
Pulstar
Pumped BMX
Q.U.B.E. 2
Republique
RunGunJumpGun
Samurai Shodown II
Sanitarium
Serial Cleaner
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: The Complete Edition
Smoke and Sacrifice
Snake Pass
Sokobond
SOMA
Star Vikings Forever
Stealth Bastard Deluxe
SteamWorld Dig
SteamWorld Dig 2
SteamWorld Heist
Stikbold! A Dodgeball Adventure
STRAFE
Streamline
SUPERHOT
System Shock 2
System Shock: Enhanced Edition
Tacoma
Tales from Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation
Tales from the Borderlands
The Adventure Pals
The Banner Saga
The Banner Saga 2
The Bridge
The Flame in the Flood
The King's Bird
The Last Blade
The Little Acre
The Messenger
The Metronomicon
The Original Strife: Veteran Edition
The Red Strings Club
The Swords of Ditto
The Walking Dead
This War of Mine
Titan Souls
Tokyo 42: Complete Edition
Treadnauts
Tumblestone
Twinkle Star Sprites
Tyranny - Commander Edition
Uurnog Uurnlimited
Whispering Willows
Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge
Wizardry 7: Crusaders of the Dark Savant
Wizardry 8
Zombie Night Terror

not $1 indie trash either.

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by magicalpiano:

I still prefer Steam, but damn so far: Rime, Stories untold, City of Brass, Kingdom new Lands, more that I missed and supposedly more coming, these aren't $1 indie clones, how do they afford giving them all away?

Epic are multi-billionaires and they have a platform where they need to capture as many people as possible aside from Fortnite kids. Luring them with freebies, getting their account and details is all part of the plan to keep them onboard and grow the Store in the hope they start spending in years to come. Epic also pay publishers/developers sweet money to have games published on the platform.

They are spending a lot of money in the hope of making more money and remain sustainable when Fortnite inevitably declines. They don't want their share prices or company value sliding so they need as many revenue streams as possible. Also they have Unreal to fall back on; they can't just rely on that going forward. They've made some aggressive and messy strides but for those with Epic accounts, they've picked up some decent freebies.

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Originally posted by BloodShed:

Just for the sake of information.

Here are all the games (to date) Epic gave away for free:

Axiom Verge
City of Brass
Kingdom New Lands
Oxenfree
RiME
Slime Rancher
Stories Untold
Subnautica
Super Meat Boy
The Jackbox Party Pack
The Witness
Thimbleweed Park
Transistor
What Remains of Edith Finch
World of Goo

Not a single game that will make me install the virus known as epic games.

[SyöpäGeeniLöppönenOY]

Well, You know game called fortnite.

Well they make avout 10million usd every day whit it so i dont know man!

[M4tt]

Epics goal is basically to establish themselves as a major store and primary competitor to steam before fortnite stops being mega successful.
And their strategy to accomplish this involves being really aggressive about getting as many users as possible.
That means exclusivities by offering the developers basically a guaranteed number of minimum sales (so if you are expected to sell 100.000 copies of a game within the first three months, but only sell 10.000 then epic will pay for the remaining 90.000 out of their own pockets), heavy discounts (during their mega sale Epic actually lost money with each purchase made during it) and free games (for which Epic also pays full price).
At the end they've pissed off lots of people with their exclusivity bs, their store is still ♥♥♥♥ (they really dont seem determined on adding much needed features to raise the user experience) and they lost money.

As soon as fortnite stops being a massive cash machine the EGS is pretty much ♥♥♥♥♥♥ since it wont be able to keep up its aggression.

[Aahzmandias]

Fortnite kids money.... and they are desparate for customers.

They can keep their "free" games. Installing the unsecure spyware launcher is much too expensive and dangerous.

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

Originally posted by Daynox:

Originally posted by BloodShed:

Just for the sake of information.

Here are all the games (to date) Epic gave away for free:

Axiom Verge
City of Brass
Kingdom New Lands
Oxenfree
RiME
Slime Rancher
Stories Untold
Subnautica
Super Meat Boy
The Jackbox Party Pack
The Witness
Thimbleweed Park
Transistor
What Remains of Edith Finch
World of Goo

Yup.. Got em all lol.

i missed all of them, How can i get them now?
Thanks.

[Cockroach]

I just get the free games and buy from steam. Simplez

Rime sucks. Transistor is good tho

[Sammy]

Originally posted by M4tt:

As soon as fortnite stops being a massive cash machine the EGS is pretty much ♥♥♥♥♥♥ since it wont be able to keep up its aggression.

You do know right that Epic has BILLIONS in the bank from Fortnite? They have enough money to keep doing this almost forever.