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.

 

[Maksim]

I hope it's true

Espero que sea verdad

 

[Pokemon_Tea_Sea_Jee]

(redacted)

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

I am looking for it but I can't find it?

It's not up for another 45 minutes.

 

[Pokemon_Tea_Sea_Jee]

It's not up for another 45 minutes.

yo delete that pls

 

[diggeloid]

If they did more stuff like this and less exclusivity bullshit maybe they'd actually have decent and growing amount of loyal customers.

 

[HRudyPlayZ]

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

It does but not as much as EGS. Simply because, Steam doesn't make their money from data reselling, unlike Tencent, the parent company of Epic Games...

 

[eriol33]

Epic games' website seems crashing a bit

 

[Kwyjor]

I'm tempted to install that launcher, claim that game, even though I already own it twice already, and then uninstall that launcher again.

If I'm not mistaken, you can make an account on epicgames.com and claim the game there without installing the launcher at all. Unless things changed last week when they brought in 2fa.

 

[8BitWonder]

there's no proof of Epic not using any of the reversed-engineered data they got from Steam...

When was this?
First time I'm hearing about it.

This seems like something that would have landed them a swift and hefty lawsuit if it were the case.

 

[HRudyPlayZ]

When was this?
First time I'm hearing about it.

This seems like something that would have landed them a swift and hefty lawsuit if it were the case.

https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/03/16/valve-to-investigate-epic-game-stores-use-of-steam-files
Technically, officially, they only reversed-engineered the files themselves, not the code, but we can't be sure that they didn't just decompile the steam binaries and used them...

 

[8BitWonder]

https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/03/16/valve-to-investigate-epic-game-stores-use-of-steam-files
Technically, officially, they only reversed-engineered the files themselves, not the code, but we can't be sure that they didn't just decompile the steam binaries and used them...

Those files are just config files/info, nothing to even reverse-engineer as they're in plain-text.
Wasn't that just to import Steam friend lists anyway?

 

[Pipistrele]

It does but not as much as EGS. Simply because, Steam doesn't make their money from data reselling, unlike Tencent, the parent company of Epic Games...

Steam doesn't make money from data as far as people know at the moment, but they're explicitly allowed to trade and sell the data, so nobody knows what Steam actually does with it behind the curtains.

 

[antiNT]

Their site is down...

 

[Lycan911]

lol we broke epic games

 

[zxr750j]

Too much traffic, amateurs

 

[8BitWonder]

lol this is a first, I guess a lot of folks really wanted this one.

 

[FAST6191]

If they did more stuff like this and less exclusivity bullshit maybe they'd actually have decent and growing amount of loyal customers.

Doesn't exclusivity act as a draw? If people are too bone idle to go on another website to press download you kind of have to make them, and having content is a pretty good way of doing that.

 

[Pokemon_Tea_Sea_Jee]

This appears to have crashed the store.

 

[HRudyPlayZ]

Those files are just config files/info, nothing to even reverse-engineer as they're in plain-text.
Wasn't that just to import Steam friend lists anyway?

Yes, those were the friend lists but also contains other data aswell. Plus, keep in mind that they are by default encrypted, not plain text... There were also rumours of them decompiling the Steam librairies but i haven't seen any of that prooved yet...

Steam doesn't make money from data as far as people know at the moment, but they're explicitly allowed to trade and sell the data, so nobody knows what Steam actually does with it behind the curtains.

Yep, although you can see that it doesn't send a lot of data as of now... Also, pretty much every company have that close in their contract....

Doesn't exclusivity act as a draw? If people are too bone idle to go on another website to press download you kind of have to make them, and having content is a pretty good way of doing that.

Exclusivity used to be a draw, although, it's completely anti-consumer / anti-concurrential.
But the consumers are starting to realise that, and people will boycott the stores with exclusivity, so instead of being an argument, it would be a repellent.

 

[DANTENDO]

This appears to have crashed the store.

Be careful you don't crash this site