Epic is giving away 17 games as part of its holiday sale

Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨GutsBerserk@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/23999921/epic-games-store-holiday-sale-2023-free-games

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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De_Narm@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I won’t support any store that sabotages Linux on purpose. Just earlier today I read a lame excuse for them to not support Linux with Fortnite despite only needing to click a single checkbox. Of course, it’s easy not getting tempted since I don’t have a windos system to begin with.

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- silentknyght@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Bad take.
  
  I’ll remind you that Steam needs SOME competition in order to actually get better. Remember when they suddenly addressed long-standing issues with the client and storefront a couple years ago? That was because the EGS appeared.
  
  I’ll also remind young folks that the Internet was extremely negative regarding steam when it was new. Yes, I’ve been on Steam for 20+ years.
  
  Tldr: EGS is fine. Relax
  
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  - Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Also a bad take. Competition is good, and a proper competitor to steam would benefit us all, but users don’t have to support them just on the basis of them being competitors.
    
    I agree “EGS is bad because I want only steam” is silly, but if it’s a worse experience for the individual user or if they perceive it’s involved in non consumer friendly practices, it’s perfectly normal they are not supported.
    
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  - Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Except that they revamped Steam loads of times before anyone else was competing with them. The biggest was when The Orange Box launched and they had added better Friends support as well as literally all the community features and achievement systems.
    
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- detalferous@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.
  
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  - Radicaldog@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.
    
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  - Matty_r@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Not entirely true. You’re giving them users and downloads to pad their stats.
    
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- CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No no, you don’t get it. Windows has problems, but switching to Linux would be like leaving your home country because you don’t like its political trends. Where’s your OS patriotism? There’s no need for Linux, because you can just keep using Windows and hope Microsoft ends up doing what’s best for their ~~customers~~ products :)
  
  I’m paraphrasing here, but that’s an actual thing the CEO and founder of Epic Games posted on Twitter: nitter.net/timsweeneyepic/…/964284402741149698
  
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  - De_Narm@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s disguting on so many levels. Thanks for that bit of knowledge.
    
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- reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  not support Linux with Fortnite despite only needing to click a single checkbox
  
  I’d love to see that, because my understanding is that the anticheat software that fortnite and others use requires pretty deep access to your system that linux either can’t or won’t give them
  
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  - AProfessional@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yes they use kernel level anticheat and they are correct it would be easier to cheat on Linux.
    
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- Anti_Face_Weapon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s more than clicking a single box when they build. They will have to provide support for Linux systems, that’s the real kicker. Also their anti cheat might not like Linux.
  
  Not saying they shouldn’t, it’s ridiculous that they don’t support Linux. But there are valid reasons.
  
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- SlothMama@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’ll never forgive them buying Rocket League and cutting Linux support. It used to have a native Linux version.
  
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fuzzywombat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
PSA to everyone that has never played Destiny 2.

tldr; Epic is giving away Destiny 2: Legacy Collection. You’ll have to give Bungie whole bunch more money if you really want to play. Don’t give Bungie your hard earned money because Destiny 2 is now pay to win and they’ll always try to screw you. Don’t get sucked into this game and give this horrible company your money.

According to the article, Epic is giving away Destiny 2: Legacy Collection which contains The Witch Queen, Beyond Light, and Shadowkeep. If you’ve never played Destiny 2 and think this seems great because now you can start playing Destiny 2 for the first time. This isn’t so. You’ll still need to spend bunch of more money if you want access to seasonal content and they’re really not an optional. Just when you thought you’re done, you’ll then have to buy the Dungeon content which isn’t part of season pass. Oh by the way you can’t just buy season pass with money. You have to purchase their premium currency and then buy season pass with that currency which means you’ll always have a left over premium currency. This is definitely scammy and it’s by design.

Destiny 2 is dystopian microtransaction hellscape. They’ve been adding layers of microtransactions for years and this is the result. If you want to see how bad it has gotten watch this video by Aztecross.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsIdPWB2_JA

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- JoeKrogan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Warframe is a free alternative to destiny , its in steam and runs on linux. For those looking for that type of game. There is a warframe community on lemmy too.
  
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  - reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I used to like warframe a lot, then they sold out to tencent.
    
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- vivadanang@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Don’t give Bungie your hard earned money because Destiny 2 is now pay to win and they’ll always try to screw you. Don’t get sucked into this game and give this horrible company your money.
  
  Bungie was given 1.2 BILLION to retain talent. They decided to fire 100 people going back to the Halo days.
  
  That right there ended any money I’ll ever give to Bungie.
  
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- BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  i bought that game full price. 60 dollars
  
  still better use of my money than black ops 4 was
  
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- whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I was thinking about playing destiny 2 for a while until I got this video recommended to me randomly. After watching it, all I can say is the developers have to pay me more than I earn on my job for me to even consider playing it.
  
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- WholeEnchilada@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  However, it’s not a bad idea to use Epic like I do: Check the app every Thursday and see what’s free, grab whatever is free aimlessly and probably never play it until 20 years from now. I’ve been accumulating free games I’ve never downloaded since about a year now. I have quite the library! Maybe 20 years from now Destiny 2 will be obsolete and the microtransaction features will be obliterated and I just waste my time doing the single player mode. Maybe. I got it in my library for free just in case. LOL. I’ve never actually paid money for a game on the Epic Games Launcher. I just grab the free stuff and wait and see. So far, after acquiring 20 plus games this way, I’ve noticed that most of the “freebies” will require, if you get deep into the game, some extra purchase. Usually, the base game is free but the base game comes with DLC. Destiny 2 is special as a case, isn’t it? It has DLC given out for free up front, hoping to snag players that will become new whales. Your doomsday warnings about this whole thing has a positive spin: Game publishers are desperate for microtransactions and are probably realizing that we, the game players, are on to them with their microtransactions. I’m going to use my crystal ball to predict the following: Game publishers will find other ways to make money because people are becoming better educated about their personal financial health with regard to microtransactions (because microtransactions are ruining lives at the individual consumer level) and therefore Epic Games will stop offering free games every Thursday and do some other thing before it goes out of business.
  
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  - Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Or epic shuts down their store randomly 5 years from now and all the games are gone. Digital content baybehhh
    
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- Ansis@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I mean basically everything in the game is optional, you just miss out on some story tidbits here and there. I have never bought seasons, dungeons or anything like that and I still have 400+ hours in the game. If you want to 100% everything, yes, you need to buy a lot of stuff, but you can still have tons of fun with just the expansions.
  
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Sabata11792@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They can all be free, I'm still not touching your launcher.

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- GlitterInfection@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Same. I’d rather pay for my games than be bribed to use their launcher.
  
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  - Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I think there are alternative FOSS launchers that you can use if the issue is the launcher itself. On the deck I use Heroic, I think there are also for windows.
    
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  - Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Did someone say “bribes”? I take bribes!
    
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  - Yokozuna@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I find it’s a good way to demo games. Get it free, if I like it enough after a few hours I’ll go buy it on GoG or Steam and continue to play it on there.
    
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- Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There is no need to use their launcher, as there are open source alternatives. “legendary” is a tool that can download sand install games from epic, but it’s command line only. Fortunately, there is also “heroic”, which is a GUI for it and honestly a pretty good one. Can also handle GOG games.
  
  They work well for me, haven’t had epic’s launcher installed in a very long time.
  
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  - DogWater@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s a neat fact I’m going to store away if I ever want to play a game from epic haha
    
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Nacktmull@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sorry Epic, those are very nice presents but as I told you many times already, I am happily married to Steam and I plan to keep it that way.

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- darelik@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I am polygameous
  
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  - Nacktmull@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    And that´s just one of the reasons it would never work out. We simply don´t fit!
    
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Shadywack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Until Bungie gives me back the content I already paid for, that company can rot in hell. I feel for the devs who point stuff out to leadership and tell them exactly what they need to do to fix their reputation, but the leadership saying “player’s still love us” means Pete Parsons can go get dry fucked by splintering balsa wood.

I won’t play the Legacy Collection, not even when it’s free. Fuck you, Bung-hole.

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- Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I stopped playing way back during Forsaken, and even then I was getting soured on the game.
  
  Then I found out they effectively deleted the first couple year’s worth of content and I got pissed off for the community.
  
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- SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Little off-topic, but bungie is struggling right now. They may get fully absorbed by Sony since they are not hitting their revenue targets.
  
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  - Shadywack@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I should only hope so.
    
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  - c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh well, maybe they should have made better games instead of looter shooter grind fests that were an obvious trend and not actually a fun fucking game play loop.
    
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The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No thanks. We don’t need a spyware on our systems.

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- 13617@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Heroic games launcher :3
  
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  - The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yes I am aware of that launcher but I don’t want to support a shady company.
    
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- Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Can I have the longer version?
  
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  - The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Epic copied some Steam files to its own folder without informing the users. When people found out, Tim Sweeney ( CEO of Epic Fail) said that it was a bad implementation.
    
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dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
How long can they keep giving away free games when their store has never made a profit?

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- money_loo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  …ever heard of a little thing called Fortnite? I hear it makes a tiny bit of cash money for them.
  
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  - dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ok well people play Fortnite and we get free games, that’s a good deal.
    
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- mammut@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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  - HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    holy crap. I did not realize they owned gog.
    
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- simple@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  As long as it takes for them to build a userbase. They can afford giving away games constantly until users start using the store for real.
  
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  - Amanduh@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Jokes on them i just login to get free games lol
    
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therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Nice try fed, still not gonna get on theit app

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dalakkin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Tbh I love Steam, but I think it’s nice with a little competition. Definitely checking this out

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- mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Then go promote GOG or itch.io. Don’t support companies with monopolistic behavior
  
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  - c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Last time I checked Epic doesn’t have even a fraction of the share of the market to be considered a monopoly. That would be steam if anything.
    
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quams69@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Nah honey

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avater@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Nice! Alan Wake 2 + the Remaster for 30 bucks seems like a great deal!

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- Codilingus@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Alan Wake 2 is a masterpiece! Fuck Epic though, I pirated it and will buy it on sale on Steam whenever that happens.
  
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  - avater@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    just bought via Epic, don’t care what launcher I have to start (funny thing, for most epic games you don’t even need the launcher) and don’t know what the problem is with it and I really don’t care though. And regarding Alan Wake 2, don’t forget that Epic funded the game and made it possible for Remedy do develop it…they are also quit happy with the partnership so I guess it’s a win for Remedy.
    
    I pirated it and will buy it on sale on Steam whenever that happens.
    
    I really hope you do…
    
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  - woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Under normal circumstances it’ll never happen because it’s not a regular 1 year exclusivity deal, it’s Epic being the publisher.
    
    It’s more likely to have it’s console versions emulated before landing on Steam. And even if Epic puts the game on Steam, Epic will still get the money.
    
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GutsBerserk@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I hope they give away AAA titles.

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- jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Usually a couple towards the end
  
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Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Destiny is free on all platforms. So this isn’t anything

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- Ashyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It has three expansions bundled with it. I’ve never played, but it’s my understanding that these three expansions represent the initial must-buy content.
  
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  - Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ah of course. However I read recently that someone had the base gane and extra products but Bungie decided it wasn’t making enough money so removed the base game and has gone a different route. Removing the players items and game data.
    
    So I’d highly recommend nobody touch destiny with a barge pole. Bad consumer practice. Would prefer if they disappear from the gaming industry
    
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c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I got excited but unfortunately the first game is Destiny and they don’t even mention the rest of them. That’s probably the one game I wouldn’t even take free.

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- gunpachi@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I have never played Destiny. Just out of curiosity, is it that bad ?
  
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Agent_Engelbert@linux.community ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Still not convincing me to open an account with epic games. Lol. Maybe I’m lazy … Or don’t have time !?

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