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Epic Mega Sale is now live ($10 off every game priced $14.99 and up!) [Read Staff Post]

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chrominance

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I'm hella confused. Where are all these crazy discounts people keep mentioning? Satisfactory is $19.99, for example, and that's U.S. so in Canada that translates to $27 CAD because Epic somehow still doesn't have CAD support. I mean, I guess that's a deal compared to the current price, but it's not "wallet am cry" levels of amazing.

$10 USD off some pre-orders is pretty nice, though (though many of the games I'd consider don't have pre-orders yet, Outer Worlds and Rebel Galaxy Outlaw chief among them). Is that what people are losing their shit over?

Also, lol at Ubisoft conveniently being taken off EGS due to technical issues while the sale is on.
 
ThereAreFourNaan

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Datajoy said:
This is a better way to compete in the PC space imo. Cheap price for a barebones experience, or full price for a premium experience. Better than moneyhatting at least.
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As I said earlier it's crazy to me that people have been arguing for months about how the exclusives were the only possible way they could compete. Imagine if they did this instead early on - no bad pr, just great deals.
 

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Dude.. r/pcgaming is the epitome of idiocy. They constantly upvote outright false news and it's full of bigots and racists. If that's where you're getting your info from you mayyy want to look elsewhere.

r/games is pretty awful too, and YouTube comment sections are notoriously awful.
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Haha, you really just handwaived everything because if your own opinions about those places.

Doesn't matter if you think those places are trash. You said noone outside this forum cares, but that's wrong, they do. Doesn't matter what you think about those places I mentioned.
 
Mórríoghain

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What the fuck I love Epic now? Check out this fucking madness:

Control pre-order: 6.6$
Sinking City pre-order: 6.6$
Vampire: The Masquerade pre-order: 5.3$
Close to the Sun: 5$

Total: 16.9$
 
Nooblet

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Satisfactory $8
Afterparty $8
Vampire 2 Blood Moon edition $18
WWZ $6
Phoenix Point $5
Sinking City Necronomicon edition (and by extension of pre order discount Sherlock Holmes Devil's Daughter) $19

$64 in total, it's from Indian EGS store. And to anyone who didn't read my previou spost and wants to ask question. No you cannot buy it by changing regions because your EGS store is locked to the region you make your first purchase (after which it can only be changed by asking support directly) from AND you need a local payment option that supports international payments (since price is in USD, unless your region has support for local currency)


Mórríoghain said:
What the fuck I love Epic now? Check out this fucking madness:

Control pre-order: 6.6$
Sinking City pre-order: 6.6$
Vampire: The Masquerade pre-order: 5.3$
Close to the Sun: 5$

Total: 16.9$
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Which region is this?
That's even cheaper than Indian store
 
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Nintendo said:
I mean, if you don't like EGS, good for you. There are tons of people who like it.
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There are DOZENS OF US!

Also, my reaction to this sale is....
Epic Store:
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Arsene no Kiseki

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To people outside this forum no really gives a shit dude.



How about you give a source saying they do care? Because last time i checked the Switch is selling like hotcakes and we see reports all the time X, Y or Z multiple platform game is doing better on it and it doesn't have most of those features.
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SleepSmasher said:
The number of items on this list that the vast majority of users don't give a single fuck about is staggering.
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ThankDougie said:
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If you actually think people don't give a shit about these features you are absolutely delusional. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised that people on ResetEra continue to be completely out of touch.
 

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In saying all my opinions on Epic the sale is good because it's a show of pro consumer and pro developer which no one can argue is bad. Yes features are sorely missing, the store is just bad without any need to extend on what I mean, Epic as a company are being very capitalist but this sale is good. It shows they react to pressure and that we can hopefully keep moving that good mojo through development channels to improve.

I personally won't buy from the Epic store because of the shitty conversion rates making games as much as $100 AUD but those doing it aren't the devll. I believe better can still come, and sitting on your laurels may be what Epic wants but we won't get decent improvements if we celebrate one sale.
 
InquisitorAles

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Can we talk about these discounts on preorders? I'm all in for good sales and better prices for consumers, but I just find it weird that Galyonkin claimed that indie games are too damn cheap, and then 2 years later started a sale on EGS with huge discounts on games that are not even released yet.
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You can read the whole thing here - https://galyonk.in/the-indie-games-are-too-damn-cheap-11b8652fad16 I also remember that Galyonkin claimed that huge sales are not as effective as some people think... So they are effective after all?
 
Tovarisc

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Mórríoghain said:
What the fuck I love Epic now? Check out this fucking madness:

Control pre-order: 6.6$
Sinking City pre-order: 6.6$
Vampire: The Masquerade pre-order: 5.3$
Close to the Sun: 5$

Total: 16.9$
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At least this sale greatly benefits users from regions with perceived weak purchasing power.

I checked EGS pricing during this sale for Finland. Absolutely nothing exciting about game costing 50€ instead of 60€.
 
elcoldtown

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Excuse me, where can I read people whine about yet another launcher and how Epic is unfair in its competition? I'd like to have a link to read and laugh in the evening. Thanks.
 
Shakerovic

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Regional prices + sale is insane price :D Metro Exodus is 5$ for me lol

i hope all publishers do the regional prices on Epic store
 
MillionIII

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fantomena said:
Really? Cause on every subreddit involving a game Epic has moneyhatted and on PC subreddits like r/pcgaming and even r/games, all hates the Epic Store.

Also all the people in YT comments sections.

Phoenix Point devs got so much shit for the Epic exclusivity moneyhatting video they had to turn off comments and dislike/like bar on their YT video.
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/r/pcgaming is a great place! /s
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DrDeckard

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InquisitorAles said:
Can we talk about these discounts on preorders? I'm all in for good sales and better prices for consumers, but I just find it weird that Galyonkin claimed that indie games are too damn cheap, and then 2 years later started a sale on EGS with huge discounts on games that are not even released yet.
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You can read the whole thing here - https://galyonk.in/the-indie-games-are-too-damn-cheap-11b8652fad16 I also remember that Galyonkin claimed that huge sales are not as effective as some people think... So they are effective after all?
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They are obviously trying everything and this seems to be the thing that's working? lol so goes to show how wrong he was.
 
catswaller

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InquisitorAles said:
Can we talk about these discounts on preorders? I'm all in for good sales and better prices for consumers, but I just find it weird that Galyonkin claimed that indie games are too damn cheap, and then 2 years later started a sale on EGS with huge discounts on games that are not even released yet.

You can read the whole thing here - https://galyonk.in/the-indie-games-are-too-damn-cheap-11b8652fad16 I also remember that Galyonkin claimed that huge sales are not as effective as some people think... So they are effective after all?
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two years is a long time for a person with a job, in a career, and epic is a big company. Repeatedly calling out this dudes opinions is silly.

More importantly -- epic is eating the cost here, not the dev. It might still risk devaluing the product if consumers see it as "game on sale" rather than "coupon from epic for game", but it's not the dev giving up massive amounts of $ from their own pocket.
 
Metroidvania

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ThereAreFourNaan said:
As I said earlier it's crazy to me that people have been arguing for months about how the exclusives were the only possible way they could compete. Imagine if they did this instead early on - no bad pr, just great deals.
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the 'problem' with having exclusive discounts like this (at least, according to Sweeney/Galyonkin) is that people get 'accustomed' to waiting for these kinds of sales, at least to some degree.

As a one-off 'get people into the store' scenario, this makes (some) sense - even if the store itself is barebones as all get-out, the deals are right in front of your face.

But unless Epic was going to loss-lead even more than they already are for a couple years while they get the storefront up to snuff, I'm sure the probably crunched the numbers and decided the profit margins weren't worth it to run a consistent 'let's undercut Steam by 10 bucks' platform.

chrominance said:
I'm hella confused. Where are all these crazy discounts people keep mentioning?
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Deals are apparently much, MUCH better in non-US/EU regions.
 
Unkindled

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They are not fucking around with those discount's that's for sure, some of the deal's are pretty good.
They got cash to buy exclusive's why not use it to offer insane discounts.
 
Mentalist

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chrominance said:
I'm hella confused. Where are all these crazy discounts people keep mentioning? Satisfactory is $19.99, for example, and that's U.S. so in Canada that translates to $27 CAD because Epic somehow still doesn't have CAD support. I mean, I guess that's a deal compared to the current price, but it's not "wallet am cry" levels of amazing.

$10 USD off some pre-orders is pretty nice, though (though many of the games I'd consider don't have pre-orders yet, Outer Worlds and Rebel Galaxy Outlaw chief among them). Is that what people are losing their shit over?

Also, lol at Ubisoft conveniently being taken off EGS due to technical issues while the sale is on.
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Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Latin America (I think?) all have lower base price in a USD, so the 10 USD discount makes their prices super-cheap.

But for Western countries, we're just seeing standard pre-order level discounts. And in USD to boot, so we'd get extra hit with currency conversion, so nothing to get excited over.
 
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Tovarisc said:
At least this sale greatly benefits users from regions with perceived weak purchasing power.

I checked EGS pricing during this sale for Finland. Absolutely nothing exciting about game costing 50€ instead of 60€.
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Yeah, in the UK there's a few great deals on indie titles but it's great to see the offers other regions that usually suffer from absurd costs in gaming are getting.
 
Mórríoghain

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Nooblet said:
Satisfactory $8
Afterparty $8
Vampire 2 Blood Moon edition $18
WWZ $6
Phoenix Point $5
Sinking City Necronomicon edition (and by extension of pre order discount Sherlock Holmes Devil's Daughter) $19

$64 in total, it's from Indian EGS store. And to anyone who didn't read my previou spost and wants to ask question. No you cannot buy it by changing regions because your EGS store is locked to the region you make your first purchase (after which it can only be changed by asking support directly) from AND you need a local payment option that supports international payments (since price is in USD, unless your region has support for local currency)



Which region is this?
That's even cheaper than Indian store
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Where?
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It's the Turkish store.
 
Detail

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They soon changed their stance on sales huh?

Don't get me wrong, I am happy that consumers are saving money but these would be the sort of prices you would expect on third party key sites anyway, you know, if EGS supported that...

As a matter of fact, some games that are on legitimate key sites are already cheaper than on this EGS sale, Vampyr for example £34.99 on EGS sale, £18.99 cdkeys.

Just sounds like another way for Epic to try and lure people in and hope they forget about all the other stuff they have pulled over the last few months which is already well documented.

Not to mention their glaring security flaws (which would be a huge factor in me personally not purchasing from them even with the best sale ever as things currently stand.)

This all seems a bit desperate from Epic at this point, you have to question if they are struggling to move units considering their stance on sales before was that they don't like sales.

Oh well, at least this is a more pro-consumer way of doing things, sales are sales at the end of the day, if they benefit the consumer then that's a step in the right direction and much better than moneyhatting exclusives, however huge work still needs to be done with EGS, especially with this buying exclusives nonsense, before the majority of PC gamers will accept it as an alternative to stores like GOG and Steam imo.
 
Majukun

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so,wait, apparently depending on the region you get a way worse or way better deal?

european region's discounts don't seem that good
 
Nooblet

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InquisitorAles said:
Can we talk about these discounts on preorders? I'm all in for good sales and better prices for consumers, but I just find it weird that Galyonkin claimed that indie games are too damn cheap, and then 2 years later started a sale on EGS with huge discounts on games that are not even released yet.
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You can read the whole thing here - https://galyonk.in/the-indie-games-are-too-damn-cheap-11b8652fad16 I also remember that Galyonkin claimed that huge sales are not as effective as some people think... So they are effective after all?
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There's nothing to look here because the vast majority of the discount is coming off Epic's pocket. The devs are getting paid the same as they did pre discount unless there's an additional minor discount on top of the $10 discount that Epic is bearing.
 
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ThereAreFourNaan said:
As I said earlier it's crazy to me that people have been arguing for months about how the exclusives were the only possible way they could compete. Imagine if they did this instead early on - no bad pr, just great deals.
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Yeah they should have just done this. It's the first thing that actually benefits the consumer in some way.

I mean it's still anti competitive, and a bare bones launcher, but if they stopped the game exclusivity I wouldn't really have a problem with any of this at the end of the day.

I've been arguing with those "it's the only way" people for months saying a good sale or money back program could make them competitive easily.
 
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