don't be so hard on yourself. over time, we all just stop paying so much attention to every single internet drama, it's tiring and we have better stuff to do.

and the point is that epic games has been really liberal with the freebies for their users ever since they set up shop as a competitor to steam. they give away a game every couple of weeks and even more on certain special seasons, including triple a games. someone following them since the begging must have a library well over a hundred games now, completely for free. despite that, they are finding very hard to find sympathy and market share among certain sectors of the gaming community, because their store is just not at the level of steam and some other questionable practices, even so far as to still be operating at a loss even now years later. you can see the giveaway games just below the current discounts at the home page or in the free games page almost at the top https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/free-games and of you use telegram there's a channel that notify you every time there's something new for free https://t.me/epicfreegames

[–] WrittenWeird@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Key statement here - "operating at a loss". Interest rates are climbing and cheap capital is a thing of the past now. They need to become profitable. If they don't, the Epic Store and all those libraries of free games might just disappear.

Any one company is at risk of this as well, but Valve has been doing this for a long time, so they've built trust.

[–] gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I remember a comment on reddit years ago where someone was saying they'd rather buy a game on stadia than geforce now, because hey, it's not like google is going anywhere, right?

I tried to warn them.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

"every couple of weeks"

As in...a new game ever Thursday for years with a couple of repeats here and there?

They also don't operate at a loss, it's the marketing budget that they redirected.

[–] CassowaryTom@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

Thanks for taking the time to explain, that was very informative. I'm not hard on myself, btw. Im a 45 year old white guy who thinks he's hot shit. Thanks for the encouragement, though.

[–] profilelost@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

There's lists online of all the titles if you are curious. You might be lucky and see some of them again, it happened a few times that they brought back previously given games, too :)

[–] BrutalPoseidon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is great information, thanks for sharing. Could you elaborate on "questionable practices"? I'm aware of locking certain games out of steam for some time (borderlands 3 for example). Is there more I didn't know about?

[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Epic gets respect from me for fucking with Apple but that's about it.

[–] CassowaryTom@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I think that I forgot to say it at the time, but thanks for your response. You helped to clarify the issue for me.