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What is the catch with Epic Games' free games? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by airikr@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Like what the title says. There's always a catch unless it's FOSS. So, what is the catch with them giving games for free that you can keep forever? What will the developers of the games get as a thank you?

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[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

it’s not “forever”.

So true. Today it is known that you only buy a license of the games from Steam. And since Epic Games works in the same way as Steam, this also applies to them. They can delete any games from your library whenever they want - just like that *click*. I stopped buying games on Steam when that came out publicly and moved to GOG instead.

[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

At least in the first years, most of the games released on the Epic Games Store were DRM-free, in the strictest sense in that you could move the folder from PC to PC without needing the launcher, like on GOG. You can see the data as of today here.

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Still below 600 (if the numbers are dead-exact) which makes me glad. GOG should be the only place for DRM free games. But that's my opinion. What I know of, GOG is today the only place for downloadable installation files of games.

[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 1 points 19 hours ago

The numbers represent confirmed cases, so there could be more. There used to be a GOG thread dedicated to testing games for DRM on Epic, but then it was locked and its main contributors have switched to adding the information to the wiki.