I don’t want to support their platform. Exclusivity deals are bad for gamers and only lines pockets. Terrible customer support and security. And also Tim Sweeney and Epic’s overall enshittification of games through loot boxes and season passes.
Right. I get what you’re saying and I agree with it too. But how would claiming their free games count as supporting them? Wouldn’t it strictly be a net loss for them in terms of money and bandwidth?
As we do not have a community on Lemmy that I know of, here is a complete explanation of their service, their misdoings and more. This is pretty in-depth with references to other postings as well as articles and sources.
They are currently losing money with their strategies either way, because exclusivity is expensive, free games, too. Luckily they still have the Fortnite money…
But they are winning something else. User numbers. Claimed games as ‘purchases’ on their storefront. Active users per month. User binding to their ecosystem by having more and more games in their library, for ‘free’. This looks good for stakeholders ready to invest, or publishers to accept exclusivity deals in their future.
And with time, the attrition towards their store will reduce so more and more become paying customers with their dubious tactics.
I mean their launcher is so bad it should be considered malware but I just use Heroic instead and only go there for the free games to help make them fail faster.
I never been able to buy from this site. My bank thinks it’s sketchy and will block any attempt to purchase From them. Haven’t had this happen in any other sites.
I miss when we could give whatever price we wanted and actually got a bunch of barely known games. These new bundles just don’t do it for me anymore. Haven’t bought a humble bundle in years because of it.
I’ve been saving a lot of money because Humble Bundle eventually price-hiked itself above what I would be willing to pay. And time too, because I don’t really need to follow the bundles anymore, I know they are not worth buying.
Also on Steam for the same price in case the trade off between having it with DRM but with an easier time installing on your Steam deck is worth it to you.
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