Free games

[Shrek]

How come Epic Games manages to provide pretty good free games and Steam proposes only games that nobody knows? Being in the business since September 12, 2003 they can surely afford this.

[Crazy Tiger]

Ah, another OP who doesn't understand what market strategies are and why Epic and Valve can easily run different courses.
Of course OP won't think about that, cause why would he think about anything other than "me get free games!!!".

[Darkwave Dahlia]

Like a disliked child in school who brings cupcakes so that people "like" him ... that's the Epic way of buying friendship.

[Vas]

ᛋᚺᚨᚾᛞᛟᚱ님이 먼저 게시:

Like a disliked child in school who brings cupcakes so that people "like" him ... that's the Epic way of buying friendship.

That approach didn't work for me. What did was breaking the nose of one of the people bullying me though.

[Tito Shivan]

I'll quote myself from other thread:

Tito Shivan님이 먼저 게시:

Free games in epic are an Epic tool to drive people to their store. In that regard Epic NEEDS to be as 'all in your face' as possible as they're trying to drive people to a new site.

Steam doesn't need to drive people in.

Free games in Steam are a Developer tool to drive people to their product.

TL:DR
-Epic is using Developers to drive customers to their Store
-Developers are using Steam to drive customers to their games

꧁Oภ𝔽iℝe꧂님이 먼저 게시:

i think steam is not better in this. they bombard you with so much clutter its not funny anymore. whenever i enter the shop i see hentai games, games i aswell can program myself within a day using gamemaker, games that are old and at horrifying prices...

Steam is pretty good at telling you WHY is showing you a particular game. You might want to look into that information.

Muppet among Puppets님이 먼저 게시:

They give away games for 18 months already.

The funniest part of this is everyone will flock here to complain the day Epic closes the free game faucet. (Which eventually will happen)

[konstantynopolitaneczka]

Tito Shivan님이 먼저 게시:

I'll quote myself from other thread:

Tito Shivan님이 먼저 게시:

Free games in epic are an Epic tool to drive people to their store. In that regard Epic NEEDS to be as 'all in your face' as possible as they're trying to drive people to a new site.

Steam doesn't need to drive people in.

Free games in Steam are a Developer tool to drive people to their product.

TL:DR
-Epic is using Developers to drive customers to their Store
-Developers are using Steam to drive customers to their games

꧁Oภ𝔽iℝe꧂님이 먼저 게시:

i think steam is not better in this. they bombard you with so much clutter its not funny anymore. whenever i enter the shop i see hentai games, games i aswell can program myself within a day using gamemaker, games that are old and at horrifying prices...

Steam is pretty good at telling you WHY is showing you a particular game. You might want to look into that information.

Muppet among Puppets님이 먼저 게시:

They give away games for 18 months already.

The funniest part of this is everyone will flock here to complain the day Epic closes the free game faucet. (Which eventually will happen)

I have no clue why steam mods are talking about EGS xD irony 100

Meanwhile... I have games on steam and epic, I use both platforms and im enjoying it so far.
I have massive libraries of games I didnt launched. And community doesnt matter because I can always see reddit.

[Crazy Tiger]

Rademenes16님이 먼저 게시:

I have no clue why steam mods are talking about EGS xD irony 100

Because Global volunteer mods are simply users/gamers too?

[konstantynopolitaneczka]

Crazy Tiger님이 먼저 게시:

Rademenes16님이 먼저 게시:

I have no clue why steam mods are talking about EGS xD irony 100

Because Global volunteer mods are simply users/gamers too?

Yes, my bad I didnt looked up he was a volunteer. Althrough I understand them

[Tito Shivan]

Rademenes16님이 먼저 게시:

I have no clue why steam mods are talking about EGS xD irony 100

Shame Epic Store forum's mods don't talk about Steam, would be neat to share opinions XD.

I find more ironic how people keep coming up to Steam to talk about the Epic Store. Fortunately everyone's welcome here.

Rademenes16님이 먼저 게시:

Meanwhile... I have games on steam and epic, I use both platforms and im enjoying it so far.
I have massive libraries of games I didnt launched. And community doesnt matter because I can always see reddit.

I do own games in many other services (Origin, BNet, Uplay, Humble...) but so far I haven't done so on Epic.
I have a large enough library as to already own the freebies they have been giving. The exclusives don't attract me as I'm a patient gamer and very rarely buy on release (I have plenty to play while the 'full edition' comes out discounted with all the DLC. Looking at you BL3)

But most important. I want to see the store is there 'for the long run' before putting my money in it. I want to know they won't call it a day tomorrow and close doors if things don't go as they planned.
Took my time to put money into Origin (I knew well EA previous attempts at it and how they ended) and I'm doing the same for Epic.

Same why I don't touch Stadia with a ten foot pole. I know how Google loves to drop projects as dead weight because reasons.

[Tito Shivan]

Munithe EXT님이 먼저 게시:

Steam/Valve is just as guilty of that tbh. What was the name of that console they were gonna bring out a few years back? I think everyone forgot about it. I don't even wanna talk about Steam Link...

I don't know where people took out the idea of Steam making a console out of the Steam Machines. They were looking at porting your PC gaming to your couch without moving your PC. That went through trying the media-center way (A small factor PC for the living room) To dedicated hardware (The Steam link) to an streaming app (The Steam link App)

People should get themselves too carried away by their own hype. Steam was never going to dip into Sony or Microsoft's console market. They were designing a portability tool for PC Gaming.

[Vas]

This topic is just funny though. People asking for free games and trying to make Valve give them free games.

[Shrek]

I did not ask for free games, I asked why the games provided for free were so different. Epic just released Civ 6 and GTA V...as people mentioned, the publishers decide which games provide for free so I got my answer, but I still enjoy reading.

[Darren]

Lex Luthor님이 먼저 게시:

I did not ask for free games, I asked why the games provided for free were so different. Epic just released Civ 6 and GTA V...as people mentioned, the publishers decide which games provide for free so I got my answer, but I still enjoy reading.

Well to be clear the publishers decide what to provide for free on Steam.

The publishers technically don't have to be involved at all in Epic's free games arrangements (if Epic is willing to pay the developers cut for all the licenses that go during the event they can run it entirely on their own without even needing publisher approval) although I would be surprised if they aren't at least consulted and an arrangement agreed to as to how much (whether per game, lump sum or a combination) that Epic has to pay for the licenses during the free week.

[Muppet among Puppets]

BeatZ #GrandPrix2.0Please님이 먼저 게시:

Go sell your soul for some free stuff. But don't even think about whining in here because your data will eventually get breached on Epic

Can you tell what that soul price is and what is making your data getting breached?

Munithe EXT님이 먼저 게시:

Just tried to log into Epic client, it's stuck in a never-ending loading cycle... then I checked the settings and they had set the client to run when windows starts without my permission. Oh thanks Epic for changing my settings behind my back haha. Disgusting.

Its the standard setting many clients try with.

[crunchyfrog]

Muppet among Puppets님이 먼저 게시:

I know well the tactics of shops to make you buy things on the way to sales, or already by leading you in certain ways through all that..

But steam not telling free games does NOT make me go through hundreds of pages of games over and over again.

Also the sources that tell do not manually do that. There are no people finding all this by following this shop tactic as a customer.

That is my point.

If that is steams tactic, as you suggest, i am not ignorant about it, i well..... ignore it.....

Ah, I see, well I was probably talking at cross-purposes then, my apologies.

You might be right, indeed that it isn't be employed here, but it IS a widely known and used tactic, so I wouldn't discount it so easily.

[crunchyfrog]

Tito Shivan님이 먼저 게시:

Munithe EXT님이 먼저 게시:

Steam/Valve is just as guilty of that tbh. What was the name of that console they were gonna bring out a few years back? I think everyone forgot about it. I don't even wanna talk about Steam Link...

I don't know where people took out the idea of Steam making a console out of the Steam Machines. They were looking at porting your PC gaming to your couch without moving your PC. That went through trying the media-center way (A small factor PC for the living room) To dedicated hardware (The Steam link) to an streaming app (The Steam link App)

People should get themselves too carried away by their own hype. Steam was never going to dip into Sony or Microsoft's console market. They were designing a portability tool for PC Gaming.

You hit on a note here that continually puzzles me.

It was seen with No Man's Sky too (so not just consoles). Granted that game had a demonstrably silly season of features being boasted by Sean Murray which caused issues galore. But there were people who would talk about it, project their own wishes into it, and off goes the road into fantasy.

And then they come back moaning about why their dreams aren't init when they never were to being with.

Thinking about it, this is probably a reason I never even bother to look into any release before it's been released and reviewed. I just don't see the point.