personally speaking, I think they were short-sighted not requiring an account to have made a purchase to use the free game program. Not like a dedicated subscription but like as a “you must have bought a game through is” type of deal like how steam manages the community system. A huge part of their misinvestment are people who are only there /for/ the free games. It wouldn’t be a tall barrier if they had put it behind a “must make a 5 or 10$ purchase a year off the store” type of restriction, and it would save tremendously on how many free copies that get redeemed
I know people that like flipping keys and games off gray markets, and they’ve told me themselves they have three or four epic accounts and whenever a game goes live they just run a script on their computer that Auto redeems the game on all four of the accounts, that would more or less stop that from happening because they’re not going to get much advertisement wise out of that type of crowd anyway.
That being said I’m guilty as charged as well, I think satisfactory was the last game I actually bought off of the Epic store and that was strictly because that was the only platform I could get it on
They’re doing the equivalent of buying twitter followers. The goal is simply to make more people make accounts so they can mislead developers into thinking their market has customers who will buy their game there.
I still wouldn’t have spent any money there. Biggest reason I never would is how I hated Metro Exodus becoming an Epic exclusive after being announced on Steam. Was a good way to make people who are upset by that to refuse to spend money there.
Not like I haven’t spent money on other launchers so wasn’t like I only bought steam games. They just went about in a way that immediately made me perceive them as an antagonist.
personally speaking, I think they were short-sighted not requiring an account to have made a purchase to use the free game program. Not like a dedicated subscription but like as a “you must have bought a game through is” type of deal like how steam manages the community system. A huge part of their misinvestment are people who are only there /for/ the free games. It wouldn’t be a tall barrier if they had put it behind a “must make a 5 or 10$ purchase a year off the store” type of restriction, and it would save tremendously on how many free copies that get redeemed
I know people that like flipping keys and games off gray markets, and they’ve told me themselves they have three or four epic accounts and whenever a game goes live they just run a script on their computer that Auto redeems the game on all four of the accounts, that would more or less stop that from happening because they’re not going to get much advertisement wise out of that type of crowd anyway.
That being said I’m guilty as charged as well, I think satisfactory was the last game I actually bought off of the Epic store and that was strictly because that was the only platform I could get it on
They’re doing the equivalent of buying twitter followers. The goal is simply to make more people make accounts so they can mislead developers into thinking their market has customers who will buy their game there.
I still wouldn’t have spent any money there. Biggest reason I never would is how I hated Metro Exodus becoming an Epic exclusive after being announced on Steam. Was a good way to make people who are upset by that to refuse to spend money there.
Not like I haven’t spent money on other launchers so wasn’t like I only bought steam games. They just went about in a way that immediately made me perceive them as an antagonist.