The Epic Games Store continues to give out free games to entice users to its platform, and this time, they've got a pretty big game to offer. Grand Theft Auto V is going to be available for free, starting May 14th. You'll have until May 21st to add the game to your account, and you'll get to keep it forever once you do so.

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UPDATE: It appears the Tweet was not meant to go up quite yet, as it has now been removed from the official Twitter account.

 

[Pokemon_Tea_Sea_Jee]

That game is bad for families.

 

[ZoNtendo]

"I got GTA V for free... but at what cost?"

 

[DANTENDO]

"I got GTA V for free... but at what cost?"

It's 7 years old they could of made this game free a few years agojust accept people's generosity

 

[TR_mahmutpek]

Seriously, its worth play online? Cuz I tried with my friends account 5-6 mounths ago and not interested me. What are the best mp mods on gta online?

 

[zxr750j]

I installed the Epic launcher months ago and I check it regularly to see which game I can get for free. Mostly crap but sometimes decent or even good. I picked up Uncharted4 for free recently. I think it's just part of their advertisement campaign to get people to their store. I like it and I don't understand people a bitching about it: If you don't want it, don't go there.
Just like using Google: If you like your privacy, don't go there... But if you want to find shit: Use it.

 

[HRudyPlayZ]

That's a good deal from Epic, surprisingly....

Though it won't make me download their shitty spyware... I mean, in addition to collecting so much data (remember how Epic was caught on snipping through Steam files?), they have like no features... No chat, voice chat, streaming, multiplayer-focused streaming for local games, proton for linux, controller remapping, customizable launcher, reviews, refunds... still not there.

Though, i'd still recommend to buy the game on Steam or others (GTAV can be really cheap, like 5-15$ now anyways) and play with mods, without any big DRM and malware (i meant Anti-Cheat sorry!) imposed.

 

[Ev1l0rd]

Well, that's a nice pickup.

Wouldn't have bought GTA V ever myself, but it's nice to have it since it is one of those GOAT games, going by numbers alone.

 

[nolimits59]

I installed the Epic launcher months ago and I check it regularly to see which game I can get for free. Mostly crap but sometimes decent or even good. I picked up Uncharted4 for free recently. I think it's just part of their advertisement campaign to get people to their store. I like it and I don't understand people a bitching about it: If you don't want it, don't go there.
Just like using Google: If you like your privacy, don't go there... But if you want to find shit: Use it.

Thanks to Epic and Uplay (if you get a Uplay game on Epic, you also get it on Uplay, you don't need Epic Launcher to launch it after), I got 6 of the 11 Assassin creed games for free on my Uplay Account, i just bought 1, Revelation and Rogue for 9€, so thanks to them i got 90% of the main franchise for 9€ x).

Got AC1 when I bought my 8800 GTS back in the days never touched it again, i just dived in now and it's a pleasure ! Thanks to those free stuff

On notable games that I got from Epic i can say, ABZU, Alan Wake's games, the batman arkham trilogy and Batman Lego trilogy, Darksiders 1/2, For Honor, Just Cause 4, Layers of fear, Limbo, metro redux, Rayman Legends (with origins free on uplay i got the two games for free on uplay now), RIME, Sherlock Holmes C&P, Subnautica, superhot, Stanley parable, The wolf among us, The Talos Principle, this war of mine, surviving mars, Torchlight, Watch Dogs, Last Day Of June or also Kingdome Come Delivrance !

Yes, shovelwares...

I already bought GTA V twice, it's gonna be nice to have 2 more account just in case x)

 

[Pokemon_Tea_Sea_Jee]

I installed the Epic launcher months ago and I check it regularly to see which game I can get for free. Mostly crap but sometimes decent or even good. I picked up Uncharted4 for free recently.

Uncharted 4 on Epic Games Launcher? What?

That's a good deal from Epic, surprisingly....

Though it won't make me download their shitty spyware...

Spyware? Do elaborate, please.

 

[Ev1l0rd]

Spyware? Do elaborate, please.

tldr; Bad coding means (or meant?) that the launcher makes a copy of the steam file that holds your friends list on startup. It doesn't get send to EG servers or anything until you specifically tell EG to try to find steam friends on EG, at which point it extracts your friendslist from that file and sends it to EG to do the matching magic.

People took it just as "Epic Games makes a copy of your steam friends and data, ZOMG!!1! the ccp strikes again and now knows im friends with xxx_hentailover69smokesweed420_xxx", but its a bit more nuanced than that.

The rest is just failing to understand how the launcher works from a programming perspective (it's an electron thing, and for electron to work well, there's a JS file that tracks your cursor inside the window so it knows how to respond to certain movements).

 

[HRudyPlayZ]

tldr; Bad coding means (or meant?) that the launcher makes a copy of the steam file that holds your friends list on startup. It doesn't get send to EG servers or anything until you specifically tell EG to try to find steam friends on EG, at which point it extracts your friendslist from that file and sends it to EG to do the matching magic.

People took it just as "Epic Games makes a copy of your steam friends and data, ZOMG!!1! the ccp strikes again and now knows im friends with xxx_hentailover69smokesweed420_xxx", but its a bit more nuanced than that.

The rest is just failing to understand how the launcher works from a programming perspective (it's an electron thing, and for electron to work well, there's a JS file that tracks your cursor inside the window so it knows how to respond to certain movements).

I do work with Electron... I'm not sure if EGS uses it though, they might have started to
The steam friend's extraction is still made without your authorization in the first place... And there's a lot of other cases of EGS being called a "spyware" as it uses a lot of DRMs that do collect data... I don't see why you're talking about Electron though, Electron is fine (it only eats RAM as it's based on Chromium but that's pretty much it) and isn't the problem here...

 

[Ev1l0rd]

I do work with Electron... I'm not sure if EGS uses it though, they might have started to

Sorry, it doesn't use Electron, it uses CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework), same basic deal in the end though. It's still a browser thing that's being masked as being an application.

The steam friend's extraction is still made without your authorization in the first place...

True, but it's not nearly as bad as people have been making it out to be, and it's not spyware since well, it doesn't use this data to spy on you. It just makes a copy of the file, that's all.

And there's a lot of other cases of EGS being called a "spyware" as it uses a lot of DRMs that do collect data... I don't see why you're talking about Electron though, Electron is fine (it only eats RAM as it's based on Chromium but that's pretty much it) and isn't the problem here...

I mentioned it specifically because the only other tracking thing I've seen about the EGS is someone misunderstanding that a file called "tracking.js" meant it was ZOMG SPYWARE!!1!, whereas the file in actuality just contained simple cursor tracking js to make stuff render easily on the screen if you mouse over some things.

The rest is just pointing at the friends thing, which as stated is severely overblown and isn't spyware.

 

[HRudyPlayZ]

Sorry, it doesn't use Electron, it uses CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework), same basic deal in the end though. It's still a browser thing that's being masked as being an application.


True, but it's not nearly as bad as people have been making it out to be, and it's not spyware since well, it doesn't use this data to spy on you. It just makes a copy of the file, that's all.


I mentioned it specifically because the only other tracking thing I've seen about the EGS is someone misunderstanding that a file called "tracking.js" meant it was ZOMG SPYWARE!!1!, whereas the file in actuality just contained simple cursor tracking js to make stuff render easily on the screen if you mouse over some things.

The rest is just pointing at the friends thing, which as stated is severely overblown and isn't spyware.

Ohh... Did people really think that? Now i'm gonna call all my files "key-tracking", "cursor-tracking","touch-tracking","user-interface-tracking" just to confuse people lol

I mean i call it a spyware as there's no proof that they haven't just reverse-engineered Steam illegally and based their code on that... Else, the spywares might not be EGS itself (although please note that it still collects way more data than Steam would, and as it owned by Tencent is also reselled to 3rd-partys) but more the things like EasyAntiCheat (yep, the useless anticheat that's as easy to bypass as it is to implement that unless you patch the game is required to run constantly and takes a lot of performance...)

 

[BvanBart]

This is nice, however I like to have everything at 1 place... hope steam does the same

 

[FAST6191]

Nice to see free games.
Don't have a machine that will do it justice so will probably skip it but still nice to see.

I am also still at a loss for why a rational person would seem to display as much dislike towards this epic games store lark as I see out there, or at least they seem no worse than the competition, but at this point I am more or less content to see people wallow in it.

 

[Pokemon_Tea_Sea_Jee]

I do not understand any of the explanations from you two on why Epic Games Store is or is not spyware.

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This is nice, however I like to have everything at 1 place... hope steam does the same

GOG Galaxy

 

[HRudyPlayZ]

I do not understand any of the explanations from you two on why Epic Games Store is or is not spyware.

It can be. Depends on your own definition...
You could consider it a spyware as it is owned by Tencent and it does collect a lot of data.
You could also consider it as one if you count the imposed DRMs or anticheats that do collect data as a part of the EGS.
An argument can also be made that the EGS product isn't legitimate as there's no proof of Epic not using any of the reversed-engineered data they got from Steam...

Though, if you consider the term spyware as more specific, then you can say that it's not one as it doesn't collect your data directly, only indirectly.
I'd say it is basically one, but it depends.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

That's nice I suppose. I already own it on Steam so I probably won't bother grabbing it, but free stuff is always nice.

 

[Pipistrele]

That's a good deal from Epic, surprisingly....
I mean, in addition to collecting so much data (remember how Epic was caught on snipping through Steam files?)

Steam collects a ton of data too. That's the reality of using DRM marketplaces in general.

 

[Pokemon_Tea_Sea_Jee]

It can be. Depends on your own definition...
You could consider it a spyware as it is owned by Tencent and it does collect a lot of data.
You could also consider it as one if you count the imposed DRMs or anticheats that do collect data as a part of the EGS.
An argument can also be made that the EGS product isn't legitimate as there's no proof of Epic not using any of the reversed-engineered data they got from Steam...

Though, if you consider the term spyware as more specific, then you can say that it's not one as it doesn't collect your data directly, only indirectly.
I'd say it is basically one, but it depends.

Your further explanation is still too detailed for me but I got a bit more insight. Therefore, I have liked your post.