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GreenManGaming selling Epic Games Store keys, starting with Borderlands 3 preorders

Dest

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Seems new to me. Nice to see. If I ever cave to the evil of EGS, I'd like to support GMG or Humble. Both great companies.

edit what the fuk someone else uses vivaldi
 
Mechanized

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How can I get a browser blast? That sounds cool and dangerous.

Regarding BL3, that's nice and all, but it's not discounted and that's why anyone uses key resellers. lol
 
Lashley

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Glad if it means competitive pricing, if they're all going to be full priced I couldn't give two shits.
 
Armaros

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The big question is, what price. If it's goijg to be similar to humble selling EGS keys. Aka the same price.

What is the point?
 
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Dest said:
edit what the fuk someone else uses vivaldi
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VIVALDI BOIS

Mechanized said:
How can I get a browser blast? That sounds cool and dangerous.
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You can download Vivaldi and have it yell at you when stuff happens

Mullet2000 said:
No discount? Pretty rare to see a preorder on GMG without at least 10% off. :/
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cyress8 said:
Wonder why it is not discounted?
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Does GMG pop discounts on games that just got put up for preorder? I thought they waited later for that
 
LewieP

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So these are not grey market or anything. GMG do sell some games sourced not directly from the publisher in some instances.

I'd be curious to hear more about what policies Epic have related to this, my main questions would be:
Are there any restrictions on where publishers can sell codes?
Are there any restrictions on the amount of codes offered?
Are there any restrictions on or policies related to pricing?
Is this something that is offered to all Epic Store games going forward?
Do Epic charge anything for these keys?

This is good progress.
 
BernardoOne

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Officially or just retail copies like they started doing a whiles ago? This isn't news if they're from retail copies.
 
spineduke

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Does GMG pop discounts on games that just got put up for preorder? I thought they waited later for that
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i mean...
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BeI

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It seems to be the exact same price as on the Epic Store (UK) anyway :/

Is there a point?
 

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GMG is notable for occasionally offering store-wide discount codes. I wonder if EGS games are exempt? If not, this could be the only real way to get a deal on these games.
 
CommandThrower

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A discount may come much later, perhaps close to release. I often get discount deals from GMG for upcoming games, about one or two weeks before its release.
 
MrBob

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Meeehhh Borderlands 3 is msrp????


GMG typically offers 15 to 25 percent off for pre-orders.
 
BernardoOne

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LewieP said:
So these are not grey market or anything. GMG do sell some games sourced not directly from the publisher in some instances.

I'd be curious to hear more about what policies Epic have related to this, my main questions would be:
Are there any restrictions on where publishers can sell codes?
Are there any restrictions on the amount of codes offered?
Are there any restrictions on or policies related to pricing?
Is this something that is offered to all Epic Store games going forward?
Do Epic charge anything for these keys?

This is good progress.
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Guess it will be easy to answer some of those. GMG loves them >20% off discounts on preorders. If Borderlands magically doesn't get one, then it's obvious.
 
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BernardoOne said:
Officially or just retail copies like they started doing a whiles ago? This isn't news if they're from retail copies.
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I see the Epic Games Store logo so I'm gonna hazard a guess that this is official

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Doesn't that just prove my point since those games come out either this month or next month and BL3 comes out in Sept

I don't remember them doing an immediate discount the second they put something up for pre-order because, you know, that'd be dumb
 
MrBob

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A price discount of 10 percent off is still not that great. This is someone who basically buys most steam releases from gmg too. Will wait to see if there is a better vip price in the future.

Still, I'm happy gmg is now selling epic keys. I want some store competition for epic game store games.

BronsonLee said:
I see the Epic Games Store logo so I'm gonna hazard a guess that this is official



Doesn't that just prove my point since those games come out either this month or next month and BL3 comes out in Sept

I don't remember them doing an immediate discount the second they put something up for pre-order because, you know, that'd be dumb
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Tim Sweeney has tweeted more game stores are coming for egs. I would expect Fanatical will be soon too to add epic keys.
 
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Ironic that the game is cheaper for me in EGS since GMG doesn't have regional pricing in my country.
 
Hektor

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GMG takes the usual 30% cut for their sales, how is this working in this case now? Do they only take 12% for EGS keys as well or are they still taking 30?
 
bluexy

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Steps forward, as expected. Good to see it happening.
 
Caspar

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I just go with CDKeys. They've sold Epic Store keys since the store launched proper, and they're usually discounted.

Borderlands 3 is £32.99 for instance, as opposed to £49.99 on the Epic Store (EU only).
 
Nooblet

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It's cheaper on Indian GreenMan ($43, $57.50, $69 for different versions) than it is on Indian Epic store ($45, $60, $75 for different versions).
 
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Okabe

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Awww yeah boutta use my v.i.p voucher and get this game for 37% off.
 
LewieP

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Casper said:
I just go with CDKeys. They've sold Epic Store keys since the store launched proper, and they're usually discounted.

Borderlands 3 is £32.99 for instance, as opposed to £49.99 on the Epic Store (EU only).
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With World War Z, they had to cancel their discounted preorders because they could not source keys.

Although I do think publishers are well within their rights to aim to reduce unauthorised sellers access to keys.
 
Clever Gato

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Finally, a step in the right direction. I'll wait a year or two before even considering buying anything tied to EGS. There's still so much for them to fix/address.
 
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