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From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FREE GAMES: "Deliver At All Cost", "Sifu" and "Gigapocalypse"
Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 13:18:23 -0400
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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.