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]

I got the page to load for a minute but the free game section was missing.

Store has loaded for me too, the free games thing is broken for me too.

It was a similar story about 30 mins ago.

 

[chrisrlink]

weird how my launcher is now in russian wtf may it be a ddos and not a clogged up connection

 

[player594]

Yea mine did that too.

 

[HRudyPlayZ]

1. Will the store load as one of those icons in the tray (forgot what they are called)?
2. Will the game load almost as quickly as a game would that was not running through a sad double-store window thing, given Steam has not been started on the PC yet?

1. Yes, sadly.
2. Pretty much, it might just take a fraction of a second longer, as the launchers process needs to be launched before the game.

 

[Pokemon_Tea_Sea_Jee]

1. Yes, sadly.
2. Pretty much, it might just take a fraction of a second longer, as the launchers process needs to be launched before the game.

1. Good for me, better than loading as a proper taskbar tab. Unless that is what you mean will launch, then I agree: That is bad. That is sad.
2. Hard for me to see that as really being the case, at least for me. What I meant was assuming Steam has not even been booted yet. Because Steam takes quite a lot of time to boot and sign in for me.

 

[HRudyPlayZ]

I have mine open in a text editor right now, it's definitely in plain-text and not encrypted.

Spoiler: localconfig.vdf

View attachment 208993

Oof, steam didn't put the encryption in place then...
Please note that for no matter the reason, Epic shouldn't read Steam's files anyways, anti-concurrential practice.

 

[chrisrlink]

FINALLY managed to get my copy

 

[player594]

Still not loading for me.

 

[FAST6191]

People who pirated the game are now rushing to get legit copies so they can play the official GTA Online. I reckon.

and watch them be even hated more

What timing in those posts.

I did however wonder what was going to become of GTA online.

My only real interactions with it were watching a friend's kids play it and the likes of

The latter being a user made game played within it (house rules to the nth degree sort of thing)

 

[Lycan911]

We are currently experiencing high traffic on the Epic Games Store.

We are aware that users may be encountering slow loading times, 500 errors, or launcher crashing at this time and we are actively working to scale. We'll provide an update as soon as we can.

— Epic Games Store (@EpicGames) May 14, 2020

 

[player594]

Wish the language in the launcher would stay on English.

 

[subcon959]

Wish the language in the launcher would stay on English.

Instead of clicking back to home just reload the page.

 

[player594]

How do you just reload the launcher?

 

[saulopp]

Nice promotion, like it how they show the world how well they can handle their store

 

[subcon959]

How do you just reload the launcher?

No idea, I'm using browser on pc.

 

[player594]

Ive tried both.

 

[Pokemon_Tea_Sea_Jee]

Wish the language in the launcher would stay on English.

GOG Galaxy website's language is changing, too

What is going on?

 

[player594]

Got mine finally in the launcher. Good luck to the rest of you.

 

[Pokemon_Tea_Sea_Jee]

Got mine finally in the launcher. Good luck to the rest of you.

University of Kentucky?

 

[player594]

University of Kentucky?

Go Big Blue. Since I live in Kentucky I'm a big UK fan.