Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VI is currently free (Epic via Prime)

HollowNaught@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you buy games from Epic you give Epic your money. If you redeem free games from Epic, you support the devs and cost Epic money. Win/Win.

  As for Prime, if you have to pay for Prime for other reasons, you might as well as expensive a customer as possible. If you don’t have to have Prime, then I agree. Avoid it and Bezos can rot.

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  • usrtrv@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not really, you cost Epic money but give them more users. Which is what they want. Only get free games from them if you want to support Epic.

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That logic only works if said users transition into paying customers. Epic wants you to either buy games from them or get hooked intonone of their “free” games like Fortnite. They do not profit at all by people redeeming and playing giveaways.

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      • usrtrv@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Disagree, free loading customers still help their customer base. They are still seen as potential customers and normalize having epic store client, legitimizing their own walled garden. It’s similar to any free-to-play game. All the customers that pay $0 technically cost the company money, but it’s worth having that dead weight to build a player base to get the whales in. Just by installing and having an epic account will inevitably draw other people in that will spend money and lure in investors and developers. They’re not dumb.

        Really don’t think of it from an individual point of view, but as a whole.

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