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Epic gave away nearly 600 million games in 2024, and it's 'not slowing down' for 2025 (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (5 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

the asset store is where you want to get every freebie.

There's a reason you can still only checkout with a single game at a time despite the asset store having a fully functional shopping cart from day 1.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

EGS has had an "add to cart" button for a while now..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Gotta think the vast majority go unplayed. Early on I was claiming them now and again, and the Subnautica giveaway was an absolute steal. Definitely something I had on my mental patient gamer list anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I've basically stopped caring about the free games at this point. I mean I have a very full library of games there but most I already own on steam of gog and I haven't played any of them, even the ones during the recent holidays.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Right. At this point it feels a little like time wasted on collecting free games that never get played.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Steam is for paying for games that never get played. Most of us have hefty libraries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Civ 6 was the biggest one for me. I missed GTA V though