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this game costs 50 usd where i live. how can this epic game store sell it for free?! how is it even possible. are they trying to steal some of our data or just trying that everybody installs there game store (to compete with steam)... 

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Just now, Abhinavp said:

just trying that everybody installs there game store (to compete with steam)... 

This, they give free games every week, it's just exceptionally a particularly popular one this week.

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It's a pretty old game at this point, it's probably more valuable to them as an incentive to use their store than as an actual product... most people who wanted it enough to buy it probably already had it.

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9 minutes ago, Abhinavp said:

this game costs 50 usd where i live. how can this epic game store sell it for free?! how is it even possible. are they trying to steal some of our data or just trying that everybody installs there game store (to compete with steam)... 

It's a marketing mechanics. No it doesn't cost them 50$ to give it free to you, it probably costs them zero because they do need to have an agreement with the developer/publisher to do this kind of giveaways. No they are not trying to steal anything to you.

 

The general idea is this: You're buying candies from another store and I do sell candies too. Since you are not coming to buy them from me because I'm the new store and you always went to the other one, I'm gonna give every new customer a bag of free candies. You tried the candies, so you know they are not poisoned. Next time you want to buy candy, my store will be in your mind's list as acceptable stores where to go for it.

 

This is what Epic is doing right now. Steam has a big userbase that is pretty loyal to it. If they want to gain the trust (and the initial trust is the most important and hard to get) from their possible customers, they need to gift them something first and hope they will come back buying something else.

 

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4 minutes ago, Abhinavp said:

this game costs 50 usd where i live. how can this epic game store sell it for free?! how is it even possible. are they trying to steal some of our data or just trying that everybody installs there game store (to compete with steam)... 

LOL you're very suspicious! 😂

 

The biggest problem Epic has is that people don't want to use their launcher. It's not that anything is particularly wrong with it. In fact, it's better than Steam if you want to support developers. It's just that we're all sick of installing other launchers, and Epic is very late to the the game. Steam came first. Then Ubisoft made UPlay, EA made Origin, and Activision made Battle.net.  Nobody wants to install more useless programs just to buy games.

 

Epic's solution to this is to give away free games, along with times exclusives. That way people can build up a library. If most of your games are already on one launcher, you're more likely to buy new ones there.

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Epic games does this to try and compete with steam, it's an old game, over 7 years old I think. It's safe to install, just know that a lot of people will quit within a week, GTA 5 singleplayer is pretty fun but the multiplayer is garbage. It will also be filled with hackers, I know this because I was one. I was sick of all the hackers ruining everything so I downloaded some stuff to get back at them, I quickly realized this would only escalate the problem. Rockstar banned me and I don't regret it at all. The multiplayer is garbage. Nothing but high level players crushing low level players in overpowered vehicles.

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5 hours ago, Abhinavp said:

this game costs 50 usd where i live. how can this epic game store sell it for free?! how is it even possible. are they trying to steal some of our data or just trying that everybody installs there game store (to compete with steam)... 

It might be more accurate to say that where you live someone is charging $50 for the game.  I’ve seen it for far far less.  The game plays on a phone.  Does it cost $50 as a console game?  There you go.

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16 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

It might be more accurate to say that where you live someone is charging $50 for the game.  I’ve seen it for far far less.  The game plays on a phone.  Does it cost $50 as a console game?  There you go.

https://www.amazon.in/Grand-Theft-Auto-V-PC-DVD/dp/B07R7YWY4S/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=gta+5&qid=1589867116&sr=8-6

 

33 usd 

 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/271590/Grand_Theft_Auto_V/ 

 

28 usd

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Let me put it this way. The client is same, game is same and so on. Unless you are buying directly through Rockstar someway, you are sharing payment info with 2+ services already. So you either pay or get for free. Either way you use same software to install and play.

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Epic is paying for the Game. Rockstar dont gift them anything.

They do this to make you use their shitty Store.

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On 5/18/2020 at 5:35 PM, Abhinavp said:

this game costs 50 usd where i live. how can this epic game store sell it for free?! how is it even possible. are they trying to steal some of our data or just trying that everybody installs there game store (to compete with steam)... 

they are trying to get more people onto their platform to be competitive against the big boys like steam and gog.

 

trust me once their user base is large enough they'll stop giving out free games either completely or by moving to subscription based giveaway like ps plus.

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5 hours ago, Praesi said:

Epic is paying for the Game. Rockstar dont gift them anything.

They do this to make you use their shitty Store.

Have to admit it works.  I wanted to play a game that was only available there so their software is on my machine.  The store with the best software and policies is GoG so far as I can tell currently.  Steam is easy and convenient but they dominate the market and were starting to squeeze hard.  I kind of support competitors. Epic and GoG have made me spend a lot less on steam lately.  As it currently stands I will buy a game from GoG before I buy it elsewhere if possible. 

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Getting the game free will come at a cost. your hard drive space. People have already explain

If your worried about Epic, remember Steam gives away games to all the time, does does GoG, Humble Bundle, the developers of the game, RockStar. Why does epic worry you so much? A company that many games use their intellectual property to make?

P.s. Epis is technically paying for the game, giving it to you. Basicly what your getting is a game, and they get to give youa  advertizementm but for then it's like .30 cents or less a copy at this point. or even a deal that lets rockstar sell something with less of something agents them next time.

P.p.s I like how no one's insulted you yet, no tin foil hat jokes, no demeaning you and your mental incompatibilities, it's like this isn't the internet or something... Good job LTT. 

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