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

eonden · May 16, 2019

Wrellie said:
Why would anyone who doesn't mind EGS and/or this sale want to frequent a thread where the OP says things like "Maybe when people stop working against their best interests I'll stop being shitty and condescending about it. Deal?"

No good reason at all.

Maybe if you guys joined and actually decided to have a real conversation and not only to shitpost and complain about how bad you guys have it, the situation would be better. As I said, there are several healthy conversation on EGS happening in there most of the time 🤷‍♀️

Steve Youngblood said:
OK. Yeah. So the issue is just that they have not done a good job here of conveying the issue with Ubi games. Though you can't search for them on the store, you can find them via Google searches. Once there, there is no indication that you can't purchase. You get an error message on the cart-ish page, but it still displays forms to enter payment information and a disabled Checkout button.

Yeap. Sorry for the trouble man.

Nooblet · May 16, 2019

Turin Turambar said:
Because there is no gifting system, otherwise we can imagine what would happen...

If there was it'd be the same as steam where you cant gift from lower priced region to higher priced.

Gentlemen · May 16, 2019

Steve Youngblood said:
So, I still have no idea if there's sales tax.

I wasn't charged sales tax when I bought Afterparty. I live in the U.S.

Zealuu · May 16, 2019

Got Hades, Observation and John Wick Hex. Buying more than one game at a time, I am reminded of why most stores have shopping cart functionality.

Deleted member 1594 · May 16, 2019

DeadlyVenom said:
Well at least Epic is slinging its money around in a way that actually benefits users for a change.

Unfortunately, I am still not interested in giving them my money.

Same here. I don't expect these sales to be a regular thing on the store. It's clearly a strategy to throw money away in the short term in exchange for getting more people to use the store. Which makes you wonder if there haven't been as many people using the story as they hoped by now. Sadly I think that strategy is going to work.

Orion117 · May 16, 2019

Steve Youngblood said:
OK. Yeah. So the issue is just that they have not done a good job here of conveying the issue with Ubi games. Though you can't search for them on the store, you can find them via Google searches. Once there, there is no indication that you can't purchase. You get an error message on the cart-ish page, but it still displays forms to enter payment information and a disabled Checkout button.

Checkout is not disabled for me but it just keps throwing errors in my face for payment. There is no more fees or taxes after the checkout page btw.

LocoRoco · May 16, 2019

Nooblet said:
That's diff.
Blizzard and Activision are the same company.

didn't know this, thanks for the enlightenment

Nooblet · May 16, 2019

Zealuu said:
Got Hades, Observation and John Wick Hex. Buying more than one game at a time, I am reminded of why most stores have shopping cart functionality.

yea it sucks, but they said it's coming.
But for now they try to circumvent it by having you verify your payment once and then let you buy things with without verifying and just clicking purchase

Deleted member 22585 · May 16, 2019

Mobile phone browser, Hades costs over 14 bucks. Store on PC like 6. Even when I click on it. Weird.

Edit: has been fixed.

curtismyhero · May 16, 2019

RivalGT said:
May be time to pick up metro, finally make use of this 2080 Ti.

Exactly what I just picked up. Can't wait to see what the 2080ti can do with this game.

sredgrin · May 16, 2019

eonden said:
Maybe if you guys joined and actually decided to have a real conversation and not only to shitpost and complain about how bad you guys have it, the situation would be better. As I said, there are several healthy conversation on EGS happening in there most of the time 🤷‍♀️

Yeap. Sorry for the trouble man.

Lol I have like probably 1500- 2000 posts in the PC threads man and I still do discuss plenty of non-EGS games in there.

When you even have someone as even keeled as Rhaknar posting things like this : https://www.resetera.com/threads/pc...hree-storefronts.114434/page-44#post-20827756

maybe the thread has some issues. Since the sale went live there are many posts by regulars in that thread acting like anyone buying shit is a pariah with no morals or brain.

Eolz · May 16, 2019

Stiler said:
Is there no way to add things to a "cart" and then checkout just one time instead of having to each thing one at a time?

I was going to ask the same thing.

Which is weird, since on the Unreal Engine marketplace, you can put stuff in a basket.

i20bot · May 16, 2019

Wrellie said:
I haven't been charged tax by EGS (in U.S.)

They will probably send a letter later saying they've reported your purchases to your state so you have to go back and pay your state the taxes. I got one of those in February from BHPhoto for a purchase I made a year ago.

ShinUltramanJ · May 16, 2019

Steve Youngblood said:
What cart?

To be more sincere I'll continue on and elaborate on why I think you are being unnecessarily rude here. I was wondering the same thing earlier. Since it's an Ubi game I'm not really sure if I could have completed it anyway, but I was wondering if I'd be taxed on Anno. When I clicked on the purchase link I get taken to Billing form with no price anywhere on the form and a checkout button at the bottom. I was a little worried that clicking the button might complete the order as opposed to taking me to a final "Complete Order" page, but I filled in my PayPal information anyway. Due to store issues, this just hung up and proceeded to go nowhere.

So, I still have no idea if there's sales tax.

I had this issue earlier as well. I'm in PA, and finally got my Hades order to go through.

I was NOT charged tax, which was wonderful, because Steam and most other sites do nail me with it. Hope that helps.

zulux21 · May 16, 2019

I see that borderlands got fixed and is now $35 for the base, $65 for the deluxe version.... tempting.

Nabs · May 16, 2019

Shoutouts to the people who said Epic couldn't compete on price and entice gamers that way. It would be lovely if they could do stuff like this instead of buying up exclusives.

BasilZero · May 16, 2019

i20bot said:
They will probably send a letter later saying they've reported your purchases to your state so you have to go back and pay your state the taxes. I got one of those in February from BHPhoto for a purchase I made a year ago.

Wtf lol

deadman322 · May 16, 2019

DeadlyVenom said:
What ever happened to "sales are bad, they teach costumers to not pay full price" or whatever?

why even pay for them at all, when epic has conditioned me to just wait for the game to be given away for free.

Zealuu · May 16, 2019

Nooblet said:
yea it sucks, but they said it's coming.
But for now they try to circumvent it by having you verify your payment once and then let you buy things with without verifying and just clicking purchase

Like I said when they first rolled this out, I'm willing to put up with a bad store if the prices are good. So far they've just had a bad store, now they have a bad store with good prices. It's still baffling to me that they would start paying for exclusives before paying someone to implement a shopping cart or any kind of sorting function for their store, but that's what they did. From my perspective they wasted several months actively building resentment with moneyhatting and being real smug about it instead of just dropping a sale for free goodwill, but maybe they've finally come around.

Lump · May 16, 2019

I'm visiting family in Lebanon. Can confirm that family is seeing $5 Metro Exodus price here (though I'm still seeing $35 on my device, same network)

XR. · May 16, 2019

Nabs said:
Shoutouts to the people who said Epic couldn't compete on price and entice gamers that way. It would be lovely if they could do stuff like this instead of buying up exclusives.

Well, to be fair; they can't. At least not long term because losing money is just not a viable strategy.

If this works out and convinces people to use their store over Steam remains to be seen.

Nooblet · May 16, 2019

Lump said:
I'm visiting family in Lebanon. Can confirm that family is seeing $5 Metro Exodus price here (though I'm still seeing $35 on my device, same network)

That's because your EGS store is locked to whichever region you first got your game from.

RedOnePunch · May 16, 2019

Zem said:
Did Supergiant seriously discount their game by such a small amount to get out of this £10 deal? lol

What would supergiant have to gain from this? They'd want more people to be playing their game. I don't think this is on them

This is how epic should be competing. Not strong arming people into using their store

Shoichi · May 16, 2019

Lump said:
I'm visiting family in Lebanon. Can confirm that family is seeing $5 Metro Exodus price here (though I'm still seeing $35 on my device, same network)

For some reason the game in some regions are set at the wrong base price on the EGS. $15 and $30 for base and deluxe. Which is why the game is $5 and $20 with these discounts

Anastasis · May 16, 2019

zulux21 said:
I see that borderlands got fixed and is now $35 for the base, $65 for the deluxe version.... tempting.

Where is it $35? I see $50 for the base.

statham · May 16, 2019

This sale is almost a month long, hope some more games gets added soon.

FHIZ · May 16, 2019

Anastasis said:
Where is it $35? I see $50 for the base.

Probably in a different region

Zomba13 · May 16, 2019

Zealuu said:
Got Hades, Observation and John Wick Hex. Buying more than one game at a time, I am reminded of why most stores have shopping cart functionality.

Lol yeah. It's really funny how bare bones the store is. Was a right pain buying Hades, Ashen, John Wick Hex, Afterparty, and Trover Saves the Universe. Can't complain too much though because of the price. Can't imagine using this store for full price releases though. Not yet at least.

TheLetdown · May 16, 2019

Nabs said:
Shoutouts to the people who said Epic couldn't compete on price and entice gamers that way. It would be lovely if they could do stuff like this instead of buying up exclusives.

Yep, this minus the exclusive moneyhatting = no problem.

itchi · May 16, 2019

RedOnePunch said:
What would supergiant have to gain from this? They'd want more people to be playing their game. I don't think this is on them

This is how epic should be competing. Not strong arming people into using their store

The game was on sale before this sale so it unluckily missed out on the deal. It has since been fixed though and you can buy it for £5.49

Kaeden · May 16, 2019

So how long does it take to get your email code for 2FA? Been sitting here for way too long and I assume this has something to do with the delay?

Ebtesam · May 16, 2019

Cyberpunk said:
If u dont mind , I want to ask Which region are those prices from ? I have the exact same prices but the only difference is Vampire is the usual $60 on steam cause I dont have regional pricing on Steam

Middle East KSA , The price in Steam for me is Local currency but in Epic in USD

Anastasis · May 16, 2019

FHIZ said:
Probably in a different region

Thanks!

zulux21 · May 16, 2019

never mind apparently epic defaulted my account to Vietnam. which only changes the prices of like 5 games lol.

PersonAndStuff · May 16, 2019

That's a good Hades price.

DevilMayGuy · May 16, 2019

Hell yes. Got my April purchase of BL3 refunded, bought it again for $10 less, and bought John Wick. May buy other games over the next few weeks, but for now I think I'm good.
Excellent sale.

Glassboy · May 16, 2019

Can you buy games from different regions other than the one you are located in?

Maybe_its_Cthulhu · May 16, 2019

I'm also seeing the low prices as well (Metro Exodus for $5)

For some reason my region is Falklands island (I live in the UK).

Annoying I cant make any purchase and I have to contact customer services to have them change it?!
Why can't i just do it myself.

Ryuichi Naruhodo · May 16, 2019

Ebtesam said:
Middle East KSA , The price in Steam for me is Local currency but in Epic in USD

Ah Thanks for the answer , My region is Egypt , Steam is non-regional priced USD but Epic is regional priced USD

Turin Turambar · May 16, 2019

Glassboy said:
Can you buy games from different regions other than the one you are located in?

Nope.

zulux21 said:
I'm in Wisconsin/USA

that being said I didn't see those prices when I was on my phone, I'm just seeing them on my desktop while I'm signed into my epic account.

edit: just checked, and yeah I'm only seeing those prices while logged into my epic account.

50-90€ in Europe. :/

Edge · May 16, 2019

God, how hard can you scream for users to join your shitty online store. This really reached a very pathetic point.

Deleted member 44371 · May 16, 2019

regawdless said:
Also, if you bought one of the discounted games two weeks ago, you get the difference back.

i wish steam would do that

sredgrin · May 16, 2019

Glassboy said:
Can you buy games from different regions other than the one you are located in?

Not on the same account at least.

Nooblet · May 16, 2019

zulux21 said:
I'm in Wisconsin/USA

that being said I didn't see those prices when I was on my phone, I'm just seeing them on my desktop while I'm signed into my epic account.

edit: just checked, and yeah I'm only seeing those prices while logged into my epic account.

I'm USA.

Check your actual EGS region. It may be different.

i20bot · May 16, 2019

BasilZero said:
Wtf lol

Yeah that's what I said, lol. I guess the online tax happened last year and BHPhoto never applied it to their site til this year. But looks like now BHPhoto will pay for your taxes, essentially, with their new program. Looks like they took a bit hit with online sales lol.

Pargon · May 16, 2019

Looks like some really good deals if you're in the right region.
Meanwhile even with the discounted price and the extra $10 off, pre-orders are still 20% higher here than they were before EGS was a thing.

NarohDethan said:
8 bucks for Control, at this rate it is going to be $2 when it hits Steam lol

Looking forward to it!

That's the third copy of Alan Wake that I own. I bought it and American Nightmare at full price on Steam directly… once they were finally released on Steam.

Kadin said:
So how long does it take to get your email code for 2FA? Been sitting here for way too long and I assume this has something to do with the delay?

Sometimes their servers are very slow in sending out emails, or email providers block them.
You should use TOTP (app-based) 2FA if at all possible. It's more secure and does not rely on receiving a code from them.
Back before they had TOTP support, I remember trying to play Unreal Tournament and being unable to for about a week, because the codes were expired by the time I received the emails.

Sulik2 · May 16, 2019

I swore I wasn't gonna buy hades until it was out of early access but I can't pass up that price.

Ionic · May 16, 2019

marzoo said:
i wish steam would do that

It kind of does in that they list "refund because the game is cheaper now" as a valid option. But it probably has more stringent limits than what Epic is currently doing. I managed to refund a game I played for 6 hours because it went on sale a few days later so I could rebuy it, for instance. I bet two weeks would be pushing it.

Shoichi · May 16, 2019

Glassboy said:
Can you buy games from different regions other than the one you are located in?

You can change regions, but it sounds like once you buy something you are locked into it.

I haven't (only got free games so far), so may be why I can see what prices in other regions are and switch between them just using the account settings region drop down menu.

Nooblet · May 16, 2019

Glassboy said:
Can you buy games from different regions other than the one you are located in?

No you can't
You need to have a payment method from that region AND that method needs to support international payment AND your account gets locked to that region permanently after your first purchase on EGS. You can have it changed back by asking support but obviously you cant do it again and again....provided you are even able to buy a game in the first place for which you need the payment method.

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