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Deus Ex Mankind Divided free on EGS (store.epicgames.com)
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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think you should grab the free games.

Epic still has to pay the publisher whenever they give away a game. So, every time you grab a free game, the publisher gets money and Epic loses money. Right now they're losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

As long as you can limit yourself to only the free games, every free game you get causes Epic to lose money and gives money to some random publisher. I grab the free weekly game every week. I've never played any of them. But, if there's a really good one I haven't played, I might do that. The key thing is that each week I cost Epic some money.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm just wondering if Epic pays a flat fee for unlimited copies, or if they actually pay per key. Even in the flat fee scenario, I think devs would ask for a higher payout if they could expect a higher number of claims.

So yeah, I'll keep doing it until I hear a good reason not to.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

I don't know much about it, but I read something about epic paying for "minimums", so it sounds like they pay a flat fee up to a certain number of "sales", then pay per-unit (or at least pay more) beyond that. But, like you said, more "free" games claimed is more units shifted, so publishers will expect higher fees, even if it's a flat fee.