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

submitted 11 months ago by GutsBerserk@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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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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[-] detalferous@lemm.ee 19 points 11 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.

[-] Radicaldog@lemmy.world 16 points 11 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.

[-] detalferous@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Matty_r@programming.dev 11 points 11 months ago

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

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 11 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.

[-] Matty_r@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Its not about the sales at that point (obviously), its about bolstering the user base. Everything boils down to advertising these days. The more people they have registered on their platform, the wider advertising audience.