(just remember to claim it in 2 months) 
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We now live in an era where games are free on launch day!!!
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Totally Reliable Delivery Service (a few months ago)
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Sludge Life (last week)
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Samurai Shodown Collection (next week)
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Total War: Troy (August)
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I just read an article today actually where they were saying that due to the increased market exposure that giveaways on EGS are creating, those games are seeing increased sales afterwards on different platforms as well, so it makes perfect sense. Only a limited number of ppl will actually claim the game, many will forget to do so, but in the mean time the game “flashed up” in their brains and then later, when they see it in stores, they might not even remember why it shines so bright in their minds, and maybe they conclude they wanted to buy this (or perhaps simply remember that they “wanted to get this”) and then they actually buy it, so it leads to increased sales without spending actual marketing dollars at all.
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Well hot damn! You got me Epic, you got me.
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Could also be people who refuse to use EGS buying the game elsewhere after hearing about it because of threads like this one :]
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Epic already gave 2 more exclusive games besides the ones I listed above:
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World War Z
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Close to the Sun
Plus the other ~100 games. My question is: is it worth it buying from them? Can’t we just wait? I mean, they already gave games before the exclusivity period ended and now they’re giving exclusives on launch day.
What do you think?
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I don’t see any point in buying games from them. The client offer absolutely nothing to the games outside of the games themselves.
I know others don’t care about that, but I love hunting achievements, participating in discussions, having easy access to mods etc. via workshop and all the other stuff.
EDIT : I HAVE however been claiming all the games I want for free, for the day the client gets up to par. I’ve got a major backlog on Steam as well, so no rush for me 
I’ll have a field day when that finally happens.
God knows when it does though, since Epic has gone back on every promise they made.
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Me opposite - it drives me batty! That they are there makes me want to try to get them, but meh, I don’t have the patience. ^^
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I have that with SOME games. Others I just love to 100%, as long as they don’t seem insanely impossible. It did take me a while to “reprogram” my brain to not obsess about it xD
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Woohoo! Ten days forewarned. I’m sure to forget - esp with this heat half melting me. O_O
@PeteMcc Is good at reminders, but I dunno he’s one for Epic, lol.
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Just have Epic running in icon/minimized mode and it’ll give you a heads up on freebies. It only takes 120MB RAM and as good as 0% CPU usage when it’s idleing and just now and then checking if there are notifications to give.
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Nice tip! I wish Chrome was as efficient with my memory, 
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The reason Chrome uses so insane amounts of RAM is because it runs every single tab as a single process with its own resources, so if one tab crashes, the others are just fine and the entire thing doesn’t just go BOOM.
Firefox has adapted that as well years ago, Chrome just got a bad rep for RAM usage since they were first to use it.
You pay resources for stability.
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Ah gotcha. That does explain a lot. Ok, informed and it’s annoying, but at least there’s a reason and I know now. ^^
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Thanks for the reminder.
It’s gonna be funny seeing LegendofTotalWar try to play this game.
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I, too, am an achievement whore. Gotta catch 'em all, right? xD
Also, thanks for the Chrome lesson - that was interesting 
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I have 68 tabs open at the moment, some of them even stacked, and I am fine. I use Vivaldi…
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Isn’t it a little bit silly of Epic to only give us 24 hours to claim a pretty highly anticipated triple-A game considering how their servers got turbo fucked when they were giving away GTAV? And we had 2 weeks to claim that game, now we have 24 hours to claim this one. I have a bad feeling about this whole thing.
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