Not entirely true. You’re giving them users and downloads to pad their stats.
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detalferous@lemm.ee 6 months agoYou aren’t supporting them by accepting free games and then not using them. It costs them money to give them to you.
Matty_r@programming.dev 6 months ago
smeg@feddit.uk 6 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 6 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.
smeg@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Do Epic advertise anything other than their own games on their store?
HKayn@dormi.zone 6 months ago
Go tell any ad company that you have a website with X million weekly users, and they will suck your dick to place their ads there.
smeg@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Do Epic advertise anything other than their own games on their store?
Radicaldog@lemmy.world 6 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 6 months ago
Ahh!I didn’t know that. Thanks for the correction.