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You mean Tim Sweeny, the guy preaching about monopolistic practices while directing his company to take anticompetitive actions in a thinly-veiled attempt to take away consumers' choice of storefront and create his own monopoly?
It's more morally acceptable to pirate games than take free games off Epic Games Store. At least in the former case, I'm not supporting their campaign by being a statistic they can boast about.
Actually if you hated EGS so much you should take these free games. Each free game costs them money.
EGS isn't paying per download, they're paying the developer an upfront cost to make the game a free offer regardless of how many copies get downloaded.
I stand corrected then if that's the case. But also if more people download them (even if they don't play them or buy on the store elsewhere) then they are likely to make more deals and spend more money :p
They want more active players on their shitty platform. So by claiming and downloading free games you are actually doing what they want you to do.
Yeah, but are you really active if you're not even playing them. You're just a number on some stats sheets for the store itself. I personally have no gripes with EGS myself, by the way. I'm just playing devil's advocate on why even claiming the free games could become detrimental to EGS if you are one more inclined to want it's downfall.
Sure, give them your data instead of just pirating the game. It’s free either way. Except one way you don’t have to give them data on your life.
They only get what you give though. Plus I feel like the whole "oh no they'll get my data" arguments for a lot of things pretty weak. Being one that briefly used to work in data science and adtech. They don't know you personally, you're just in a cohort of similar people. You're not individually identifiable. Which is fine by me. I'd rather get given targeted ads (when they're not blocked) than the absolute wild west of a mess ads were in the 90s and early 00s.
But you could just… not. Installing their software on your machine gives them file system access, soooo… maybe just pirate and get the game for free just the same.