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Epic is giving away 17 games as part of its holiday sale (www.theverge.com)

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Epic Games plans to give away 17 free games during its annual holiday sale for the Epic Games Store, the company announced on Wednesday.

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[-] [email protected] 89 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

PSA to everyone that has never played Destiny 2.

tldr; Epic is giving away Destiny 2: Legacy Collection. You'll have to give Bungie whole bunch more money if you really want to play. Don't give Bungie your hard earned money because Destiny 2 is now pay to win and they'll always try to screw you. Don't get sucked into this game and give this horrible company your money.

According to the article, Epic is giving away Destiny 2: Legacy Collection which contains The Witch Queen, Beyond Light, and Shadowkeep. If you've never played Destiny 2 and think this seems great because now you can start playing Destiny 2 for the first time. This isn't so. You'll still need to spend bunch of more money if you want access to seasonal content and they're really not an optional. Just when you thought you're done, you'll then have to buy the Dungeon content which isn't part of season pass. Oh by the way you can't just buy season pass with money. You have to purchase their premium currency and then buy season pass with that currency which means you'll always have a left over premium currency. This is definitely scammy and it's by design.

Destiny 2 is dystopian microtransaction hellscape. They've been adding layers of microtransactions for years and this is the result. If you want to see how bad it has gotten watch this video by Aztecross.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsIdPWB2_JA

[-] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago

Warframe is a free alternative to destiny , its in steam and runs on linux. For those looking for that type of game. There is a warframe community on lemmy too.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Don’t give Bungie your hard earned money because Destiny 2 is now pay to win and they’ll always try to screw you. Don’t get sucked into this game and give this horrible company your money.

Bungie was given 1.2 BILLION to retain talent. They decided to fire 100 people going back to the Halo days.

That right there ended any money I'll ever give to Bungie.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

i bought that game full price. 60 dollars

still better use of my money than black ops 4 was

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[-] [email protected] 82 points 7 months ago

I won't support any store that sabotages Linux on purpose. Just earlier today I read a lame excuse for them to not support Linux with Fortnite despite only needing to click a single checkbox. Of course, it's easy not getting tempted since I don't have a windos system to begin with.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Bad take.

I'll remind you that Steam needs SOME competition in order to actually get better, and I can't think of anyone else able to do it (Microsoft has kinda already tried and failed). Remember when Steam suddenly addressed long-standing issues with the client and storefront a couple years ago? That was because the EGS appeared.

I'll also remind young folks that the Internet was extremely negative regarding steam when it was new. Yes, I've been on Steam for 20+ years.

Tldr: EGS is fine. Relax.

Edit: clarity

[-] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

Also a bad take. Competition is good, and a proper competitor to steam would benefit us all, but users don't have to support them just on the basis of them being competitors.

I agree "EGS is bad because I want only steam" is silly, but if it's a worse experience for the individual user or if they perceive it's involved in non consumer friendly practices, it's perfectly normal they are not supported.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

I fully support a good competitor to Steam like GOG. It may be less convenient than Steam but it has one key feature that no other shop has: no DRM.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

This is the best way forward. If GOG had more games it would change the industry. More companies need to partner with them.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

GOG still has that niche of the "old games." Can't think of anywhere else I could get DOS games from my childhood that also come with patches and updates to make them work on modern systems.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

You aren't supporting them by accepting free games and then not using them. It costs them money to give them to you.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

We found out in the Apple lawsuit that the games are fixed price for Epic, so you can download or not as you wish - individually you do not make their cost go up.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Ahh!I didn't know that. Thanks for the correction.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Not entirely true. You're giving them users and downloads to pad their stats.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I've seen this posted before, but how does that make their stats look good? Oh you've got X million users! And how much money did you make? Oh. So how many of your users have ever paid you any money? Oh.

I assume their logic is to give you free games so you get into the habit of looking at their storefront and going to their launcher to play your games in the hope that you'll start buying your games from there instead. I can't see how claiming the freebies but never giving them money helps them.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

No no, you don't get it. Windows has problems, but switching to Linux would be like leaving your home country because you don't like its political trends. Where's your OS patriotism? There's no need for Linux, because you can just keep using Windows and hope Microsoft ends up doing what's best for their ~~customers~~ products :)

I'm paraphrasing here, but that's an actual thing the CEO and founder of Epic Games posted on Twitter: https://nitter.net/timsweeneyepic/status/964284402741149698

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[-] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago

They can all be free, I'm still not touching your launcher.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

Same. I'd rather pay for my games than be bribed to use their launcher.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

I think there are alternative FOSS launchers that you can use if the issue is the launcher itself. On the deck I use Heroic, I think there are also for windows.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

It's the general business scumminess towards consumers. I want Epic to fail for it.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Playnite on Windows is the premiere experience for multilauncher support. Highly customizable, and it has a UX that's much better to lay-users than something like Gog Galaxy 2.0. Integrations are well QA'd and updated. It's wild that this was built as a FLOSS project because it's better than what billion dollar companies have done by a mile.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Did someone say "bribes"? I take bribes!

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

There is no need to use their launcher, as there are open source alternatives. "legendary" is a tool that can download sand install games from epic, but it's command line only. Fortunately, there is also "heroic", which is a GUI for it and honestly a pretty good one. Can also handle GOG games.

They work well for me, haven't had epic's launcher installed in a very long time.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

That's a neat fact I'm going to store away if I ever want to play a game from epic haha

[-] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Until Bungie gives me back the content I already paid for, that company can rot in hell. I feel for the devs who point stuff out to leadership and tell them exactly what they need to do to fix their reputation, but the leadership saying "player's still love us" means that piece of shit scumbag, Pete Parsons, can go get dry fucked by splintering balsa wood.

I won't play the Legacy Collection, not even when it's free. Fuck you, Bung-hole.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

I stopped playing way back during Forsaken, and even then I was getting soured on the game.

Then I found out they effectively deleted the first couple year's worth of content and I got pissed off for the community.

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Look Epic, those are very nice presents but as I told you many times already, I am happily married to Steam and I plan to keep it that way. Please respect my decision and stop sending me gifts, it´s getting awkward and honestly you´re making an ass of yourself.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I am polygameous

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

How long can they keep giving away free games when their store has never made a profit?

[-] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

…ever heard of a little thing called Fortnite? I hear it makes a tiny bit of cash money for them.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ok well people spend money on Fortnite and we get free games, that's a good deal.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

As long as it takes for them to build a userbase. They can afford giving away games constantly until users start using the store for real.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Jokes on them i just login to get free games lol

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

No thanks. We don't need a spyware on our systems.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Nah honey

[-] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Nice try fed, still not gonna get on their app

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Tbh I love Steam, but I think it's nice with a little competition. Definitely checking this out

[-] mnemonicmonkeys 12 points 7 months ago

Then go promote GOG or itch.io. Don't support companies with monopolistic behavior

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