People who proudly boast about how they never spend a dime on Epic Games, in their store, but has hundreds of free games to play with no intent to play them. Like, I don’t know who is supposed to be impressed by that. Not to mention, that’s not really a good method of protesting if you’re someone who hates Epic Games.
You’re still spending the time and effort, not to mention even bothering to have an account with them to begin with, to redeem free games that they give away. Who are you seriously trying to impress or what message are you trying to convey? Because all I see are contradictions and ironies.
The epic thing is supposed to be a flex? I thought it was about it sucking so much that not even free games can retain people.
This is where I’m at. I refuse to give Epic a cent due to their anticompetitive practices and trash store/library UX (why the fuck does the android app not even have a library view‽ You have to just know what you’ve purchased and find it in the store), but I’ll claim their giveaways all day long. AFAIK, they use those download numbers to budget for future giveaways, so this artificially inflates those numbers. If I’m interested, I’ll treat the free game as a demo and then buy the game on Steam if I like it.
I don’t think that makes me better than anyone, it’s just my way of getting back at Epic for their bullshit.
When their store application was new, it was caught doing spyware-like actions scanning through users’ computers without consent or notice. Their “Free” games might come with another price you don’t see. I wouldn’t install it.
That’s why you claim the games then use an alternate launcher if you can
Yea I don’t think it is a flex. I have a lot of free games on epic and granted I have no intent of playing most of them, but some I do play. And it is absolutely worth getting all that shit for the few great games I got to play for free through that.
I don’t flex that on people, because it’s nothing some other person couldn’t have done as well if they spent the time, but it’s still nice to have.
@TheFriendlyDickhead @markz it’s the magic of the number! number goes up!
I don’t see it as a flex I do redeem them and try out games with heroic as I know the devs still get paid by epic when you redeem them. If I like the game. I most of the time buy on gog or steam for the convenience.