It seems like Epic likes counting to five lately. Today’s homage to the number is, for a limited time, free Grand Theft Auto V on the Epic Games Store. While there has been several of these free game promotions in the past, so you should already know how they work, it is basically a 100%-off sale. You do not even need to install it right away. You just need to “buy” it for $0.00, which adds it to your account. The actual install can be done months or years from now.
Grab the game while the promotion lasts, and it is yours to keep.
This free game is apparently hammering the servers at Epic Games. Most parts of the Epic Games Launcher are in various stages on not-quite-loading. It reminds me of the time that Valve did a similar 100%-off sale for Left 4 Dead 2 a few Christmases ago. Steam was in various stages of death for hours on end.
If you are interested, even in the slightest, then pick it up before they put a price tag back on it.
total site crash,
Now THAT’S Epic
Anything to get people to install their spyware I guess. Although I have to wonder who all these people are on PC who are interested but don’t own it already? it’s 5 years old (pc). It’s not like it’s a drm free GOG release. it’s just another store version like Steam. I guess if someone swore off Steam, or they just got into PC gaming and decided on Epic, although it’s hard to imagine this kind of volume. I guess people see “free”, and that’s enough, even if they own it on Steam.
Not entirely. First, most people dont give a fuck about spyware so long as it doesn’t noticeably take resources. It’s the world we live in, like it or not. Second, there are probably plenty of people who played it on ps3/xbone36 that would like to play again but not pay for it on ps4/xbONE/pc. Third, GTA-ONLINE has proven to be one of the most successful constant cash streams in the history of MMO gaming, if they can get one out of every hundred players to buy one “Shark Card” they have made money that cost no extra effort. Fourth, We all know GTA6 is coming, sooner or later it’s on the way, so introducing anyone who would not have normally tried it to the game play is worth it, every fraction of a percentage who falls in love is a guaranteed customer.
And finally, on a side note, GTA5 is one of the games I re-installed during this isolation to kill some time. My rig (and monitor) is exponentially more powerful than when I played the story 4 years ago, it was amazing, like truly fucking sick to see the diffrence between what was the best I could do, to everything maxed the fuck out. Honestly, the NPCs last time looked like scary inhuman distorted triangle monsters, today they almost look fuckable.
Oh, and after 2 hours it got borring, but whachya gonna do?
ALSO, corect me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the online game on rockstar’s own server, so it doesn’t matter where you buy it, there is only one online world? I think so but I’m not 100%