We found out in the Apple lawsuit that the games are fixed price for Epic, so you can download or not as you wish - individually you do not make their cost go up.

[–] detalferous@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Ahh!I didn't know that. Thanks for the correction.

[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not entirely true. You're giving them users and downloads to pad their stats.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I've seen this posted before, but how does that make their stats look good? Oh you've got X million users! And how much money did you make? Oh. So how many of your users have ever paid you any money? Oh.

I assume their logic is to give you free games so you get into the habit of looking at their storefront and going to their launcher to play your games in the hope that you'll start buying your games from there instead. I can't see how claiming the freebies but never giving them money helps them.

[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Its not about the sales at that point (obviously), its about bolstering the user base. Everything boils down to advertising these days. The more people they have registered on their platform, the wider advertising audience.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago

Do Epic advertise anything other than their own games on their store?

[–] HKayn@dormi.zone 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Go tell any ad company that you have a website with X million weekly users, and they will suck your dick to place their ads there.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

Do Epic advertise anything other than their own games on their store?