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.

  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
    1649·
    11 months ago

    Oh fuck off you big baby, we don’t need people like you in every discussion about free games on EGS, we get it, you’re mad that someone dared stand up to Gaben and his monopoly, go bitch somewhere else and let people enjoy the free games.

    • sparr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      295·
      11 months ago

      you’re mad that someone dared stand up to Gaben and his monopoly

      And you can tell that by how much they complain(ed) about Itch, GoG, Desura, and other competitors, right?

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
        243·
        11 months ago

        Yup, EGS doesn’t get a pass for sucking just because it’s an underdog. The store experience sucks, the company behind it actively avoids supporting the Steam Deck (valid business reasons imo, but it still sucks), and they have stupid exclusives that just delay when I get to play games on my platform of choice.

        EGS sucking doesn’t make Steam good, it just means EGS sucks.

        While GOG’s client kinda sucks, it’s better than EGS and their games are DRM-free. So I’ll give them a pass on their client kinda sucking and not porting to my preferred platform, Linux. I’d just GOG in a heartbeat if they gave half as much attention to Linux as Steam (I don’t want much, just officially endorse Heroic and/or port Galaxy).

        • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
          2·
          11 months ago

          I keep my fingers crossed that one day GoG Galaxy will be given a developer or two instead of a single untrained monkey. I like the concept, I like some of the features and love that I can view all my libraries in one place, but man it’s so janky and there’s no support from the company at all and they don’t fix issues or work on anything new for it and what they do add is done at a glacial pace.

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            11 months ago

            Meanwhile, Valve keeps rolling out new features, such as:

            • unified shopping cart - love it! I can add games on mobile and review on my PC
            • private games - doesn’t benefit me, but I guess it’s cool
            • separate gift and personal purchases in one transaction - I often buy a bunch of games at once and send some to my wife/kids
            • proton, Steam input, year end review, etc

            Sometimes it’s pretty stagnant, but overall it gets way more attention than any other client. All GOG needs to do is get like 5 full-time devs and Galaxy would be a much better client. They have the money (Witcher, Cyberpunk, etc), they just need to improve their client so people actually want to use it.

      • Rose@lemmy.world
        38·
        11 months ago

        Those stores don’t challenge the monopoly, so they don’t trigger anyone. They get praised but you’ll have a hard time finding anyone who regularly uses them, let alone as their main gaming platform.

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
        38·
        11 months ago

        They sure do bitch about EA and Ubisoft having their own launcher!

        Funny that the services you mentioned don’t try to play in the exact same playground as Steam, contrary to EGS.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
      246·
      11 months ago

      You’re mad that someone dared stand up to Gaben and his monopoly

      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.

        • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
          5·
          11 months ago

          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.

          • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            11·
            11 months ago

            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

              • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                11·
                11 months ago

                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.

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          11·
          11 months ago

          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.

          • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            12·
            11 months ago

            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.

            • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              1·
              11 months ago

              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.

    • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
      11·
      11 months ago

      I was almost with you until you said that dumb shit in the second half.

    • Night Monkey@sh.itjust.works
      1522·
      11 months ago

      People bitch way too much about EGS. Yeah, we get it, it’s not steam and the dude that runs it pissed in their Cheerios once. Claim the free fucking game or don’t.

      Every single god damn time there’s a post about a good free game on EGS, there’s always some tool who’s gotta mention how bad EGS sucks and that they only play the finest Linux games available. They act like they are stuck up losers. Let’s be completely honest. Gaming on Linux still blows.

      Nobody gives a shit about your Linux gaming. Nobody gives a shit if you like Steam more. Nobody gives a shit if you have a beef with Tim Sweeny.

      Just shut the fuck up already.

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
        78·
        11 months ago

        It’s even worse when you’re old enough to remember the same kind of people that were complaining about Valve creating Steam and forcing them to download it in order to play their games and then complaining that non-Valve games were starting to depend on having Steam installed and having to download part of the game at a time when bandwidth sucked… The same kind of people were saying they would forever boycott Steam but today they’re made that someone tried to break the status quo again.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          11 months ago

          Huh, I actually never used Steam until it came to Linux. I switched back in 2010 or so, and before that I either downloaded games directly from the dev or bought disks.

          I don’t understand what was wrong with that model. I remember buying Minecraft directly from the website back in 2012 or so, and I did the same with Factorio (2014?). I remember playing Starcraft 2 with its own launcher, which again I got through the website. The same is true for League of Legends.

          I don’t get why everything has to be through some launcher, though I do appreciate what Steam is doing for the Linux community, so they have earned my business (if it wasn’t for Steam, I wouldn’t play nearly as many games). But from an overall gaming perspective, I agree that having such a dominant platform isn’t good, and I would probably buy from other stores if they offered a decent experience, but I’m not going to jump through hoops to play games.

        • kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social
          2·
          11 months ago

          non-Valve games were starting to depend on having Steam installed

          The problem was/is their policy of allowing the non-Valve games to also require their own storefront launcher alongside Steam.

          There was that one dark period of “Games For Windows Live” on Steam, but those issues are pretty rare nowadays.

          • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
            24·
            11 months ago

            That’s also an issue, but them becoming the default provider and having such a huge market share isn’t something that players should be happy about, they might be managed by someone that cares about players but Gaben could die tomorrow and get replaced by someone that doesn’t. Competition should be celebrated even if it’s not perfect.

            • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
              3·
              11 months ago

              Competition needs to do better than simply existing to be celebrated.

              If I open a storefront that costs twice as much as Steam with none of the features you wouldn’t support it just because “it’s competition”.