Gaming @beehaw.org sub_o @beehaw.org 9 mo. ago

Seems like the rest of the free games from Epic Store have been leaked

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

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Yeh, but It's still EGS... So, do we care? Are.. are we caring about this?
- 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.
  
  I ended up pirating all the game I own through Epic store. That's how bad it is.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
  
  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.
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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