On July 16th, for Prime Day, Prime Gaming will have:
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League
Chivalry II
Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Years Celebration Edition
…for 48 hours only. All activate via Epic Game Store. Suicide Squad did pretty terrible so it’s believable that it would be a freebie this quickly.
I got this on Epic:
Your account is unable to download any more free games at this time, please wait 24 hours before trying to redeem a free game again.
Never seen that before. Freaking weird.
I’ve never seen that (which tells us nothing).
Have you ever bought a game from Epic? Maybe they are tired of only ever giving things to you.
(I really have no idea, only guessing.)
Once. When I had a coupon. It was a Ghostbusters game that was pretty meh.
Based on how people talk about it, I’m pretty sure 90%+ of the people who get free games on epic (and that may be 98%+) never actually buy anything on epic. I’m sure that’s not why they’re throttling him.
It’s actually kind of shocking that they’re still doing it, given the low conversion rate, but then again they leaked the numbers a while back and I was shocked at how little Epic paid to give out these free games, too.
I’ve been vacuuming up these free games from Epic since this thread started - never have bought a game from them. My library is such that I will never realistically get to complete these games in my lifetime.
I’ll echo SenorBeef’s sentiment that it’s surprising they’re still doing this.
I tried again today and it let me claim Floppy Knights.
It’s weird that I got that message. I hadn’t even claimed a free game in a while.
I had actually purchased a game from Epic many years ago. Between the Origin overlay and the absolute failure to properly install and play despite all my efforts I threw up my hands and barely managed to get a refund in the return window.
They were so bound and determined to compete with Steam with exclusives and a slick interface, but never (IMHO) actually put much work into making the whole thing, well, work. 
I’ve bought one Epic game. It was Fenyx Rising. Somehow, it was on sale and I got a $10 coupon, so it was a great deal. Game was only out a month or two at the time. Ended up paying $27 or so for it.
I’ve noticed that the free offerings seem a bit more modest these days, either (older) indie titles, failed AAA games or rather old AAA games that frequently go on sale for cheap. This makes some sense – people will go get near anything for free so there’s no reason to attract people to make accounts or visit the site using expensive titles.
Last year, Epic reported that they had gained a bunch of new accounts (yay!) though their overall sales of non-Epic properties was down (umm…). Revenue overall was up but carried mainly on Fortnite and, to a lesser degree, Epic properies like Rocket League. New accounts don’t seem to translate to increased Epic Game Store purchases but I’m sure it looks good to report that you had X new accounts made last year for “engagement”.
I bought Hitman-3 on Epic and it worked great. Better than that, they let me prove to them (without much fuss) that I owned the first two on Steam and then they let me merge them all into one super-game of Hitman (start Hitman 3 and the content from 1 and 2 are built-in). For all that it worked just fine. Zero problems.
I forgot, I also bought Satisfactory on Epic and it, too, works fine.
That’s all anecdotal of course. YMMV (and apparently did).
Oh, I fully accept it as anecdotal and likely highly varied by game. IMHO Epic did/does a worse job of getting it’s installers and patchers to work with older games (which is what I had purchased), compared to Steam which is still pretty shitty with in some cases (but has 100x better local forum support for said fixes!), and is itself is da fail compared to say GOG.
The entire purpose behind Epic’s store is to show the world that Steam is ripping gamers off, that it’s feasible to have a more consumer- and developer-friendly storefront and still turn a reasonable profit.
This is not some newfound purpose either, it is what they explicitly set out to do after they were tired of paying tithe to Steam following Fortnite’s success.
~Max
Base vanilla storefront maybe. Do they have anything on par with steam workshop for mods?
I’ve never seen anything like Steam Workshop anywhere else.
Heck, Steam Workshop does not cover all games. I assume it is an extra cost to the developer and not all do it.
Steam Workshop is great but I use Nexus Mods more just because it covers pretty much everything. It’s a little more fuss but not bad at all.
Hah, not even close. Nexus Mods is alright though. Curse does mods for a couple games, notably the Sims 4 (which I have on Epic, but mods for that game are all over the net). For mods it really depends on the game, most games with an active modding community tend to have one de-facto mod repository.
For Steam-exclusive or Steam-centric games like Civ VI or Kenshi that tends to be Steam Workshop.
~Max
Epic doesn’t have reviews, discussion, guides or content sharing (videos and screenshots and the like). They do have a basic 5* rating system, but if you want to know why the community feels the way it does, Steam is the place to go. Or Metacritic, I suppose.
Personally I prefer old fashioned IGN, Metacritic, Gamespot, etc.
~Max
Nexus is my go to if I need a mod. I’ve used other sources (Curse in particular, especially when I played WoW) but if I find out there is a mod for a game I always check Nexus first.