8AM PT, 11AM ET.
Can’t beat the price of free. No parts of the game are missing, just for all of you patient folks.
Quick note: It is a remaster of the original game with the base game and the DLC expansions that were released for it, visual updates and a higher level cap and possible other tweaks. Some reports of stuttering and poor performance.
Or… Just claim the games and play them if you ever feel like it and don’t if you don’t?
Yup, I think I’ve downloaded like 5 and actually started like 3 (and haven’t put more than an hour on any). I’ve repurchaded far more games on Steam that I got free from Epic than I’ve actually played on EGS.
It takes like 30 sec of my time to click on the link and checkout on my phone. If it took much more than that, I wouldn’t bother.
I don’t know why I still bother. I guess somewhere deep down in my soul I think there’s a chance EGS will stop sucking, and at that point I’ll be glad to have the library. That hasn’t happened in the year or two that I’ve been claiming games, but I still do it anyway. Eh, whatever.
There’s some really good games they gave through the years and if you use a library aggregator like Galaxy 2.0 or Playnite you basically don’t notice what launcher it’s on…
Yeah, I just haven’t gotten to it.
I use Linux, so the convenience of switching Proton versions through Steam is worth buying the game again in most cases. I could use Heroic launcher, but the interface isn’t as nice and adding each game to Steam is tedious, especially on my Steam Deck (esp. since Steam has decent settings preconfigured in many cases).
So yeah, my laziness costs me some money. If EGS supported Linux, I’d probably buy some games from them. Likewise for GOG, but at least GOG has Linux builds of many games, so they occasionally get my money as well.
It’s such a waste of time and sanity to have to keep up with claiming.
Opening an app and clicking claim is a risk to your sanity? You may want to talk to someone.
You don’t have to claim them. Nobody does. But people can claim it if they want to and that’s alright.
No one said it wasn’t, I’m just voicing that it’s completely worthless to claim these licenses for games on a store like this.
Your opinion has been noted already. Thank you for your input.