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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: FREE GAMES: "Deliver At All Cost", "Sifu" and "Gigapocalypse"
Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 21:40:05 -0000 (UTC)
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 17:18 this Friday (GMT):
> On Thu, 22 May 2025 11:08:41 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
><spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>* Deliver At All Cost
>>https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/deliver-at-all-costs-a30c8d
>
>
> I'm still amazed this game was given away for free. It's a brand new
> game, as in: it was released for the first time YESTERDAY. It's
> released on Steam yesterday. Except there you have to pay $30USD to
> play. And yet it's free on Epic for a week.
>
> It really comes across as a big 'fuck you' to Epic. "Yeah, sure,
> release this game for free on Epic. Maybe people will grab it there,
> but the ones who will actually play it -you know, the ones who would
> have bought it- will just turn around and buy it on Steam anyway.
> Because that's where people actually PLAY their games. Epic is just
> for Number-feeding."
>
> Is that what the devs intended when they made that deal with Epic?
> I've no idea. But it sure feels that way.


Probably going to be used as proof of how few people actually like Epic,
I think. "They literally gave away a quality game that released
yesterday, and people STILL preferred spending money with Steam!"
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