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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Free games are pure marketing. Don't confuse it.

They can take them away at their whim.

Their sole purpose is to get you used to using Epic over other services.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pressing "Launch" is the same whether you're in Epic or Steam. I have like 40 games on epic and I've paid them exactly $0. In the same time I spent quite a bit on Steam. It's hard to see what value Epic is getting out of me from this.

[–] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A lot of the free games also have DLC for sale. If you play the free game and enjoy it, odds are that it is cheaper to get the DLC on epic instead of buying the game and dlc on steam. No idea how often that works out for epic, but it's one way they could make money back from free games.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

I got civ6 for free from epic, played it for a while and decided I wanted the dlc, it was cheaper to buy the full game on steam plus all the dlc than to buy just 1 dlc from epic.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i did my part. got about 40 of them last year.

epic freebies from 2024 played: 0

epic freebies from 2024 installed: 0

the only freebie of theirs i have installed right now is one of the CIVs.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, any game I deem worthy to play, is worthy of my money anyway, so I would rather buy them on Steam/GOG.

I have some free games on Epic, but havent even had the launcher installed for like 7 years.