After looking at expensive games which are not discounted during the MEGA sales, I could imagine a strong line-up like this one:
- April 19: Borderlands 3 ✅
- April 26: Football Manager 2022
- June 2: Total War: WARHAMMER II
- June 9: Battlefield™ 2042
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Battlefield 2042 is probably out of the picture, is it even on Epic at all? Edit: after a search i saw it was avaliable there. I have a hard time imagining they would give it free, when the sales numbers are probably still high.
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The game is rated very poorly by both critics and the players, so it's definitely not out of the question that it could be offered at one point as free on the EGS or others things such as Twitch Prime etc. etc. especially if the sales for the game have come to a crawl. TBH it may be extremely beneficial for EA to give it away on the EGS. Every copy of a game that the EGS gives away for free Epic pays the devs for. So every account that gets free games is a big help to paying the devs and growing the EGS.
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Ah Borderlands, nice, too bad you need 10 different DLCs to be able to reach max level for your character.
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Google translates it top to bottom as "E treasure past" (it says "the past" in the image so no idea where Google got the treasure part from), "they burned" and "it's is too much".
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I think it says "three treasures" on the top, so they were initially planning to giveaway the Yakuza bundle.
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/13660/The_Yakuza_Bundle/
But, now it seems they will be giving No Man's Sky.
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no its E not the chinese character three.
top is "E宝往事" , E宝 is a cute nick name some of the chinese gamers created, they call Epic E宝, pinyin is E bao, and E stands and short for Epic, 宝 means baby or treasure, guess google choosed the second one, but it can also used as babe, for example you can call your lovely wife 宝 or 宝宝 or 宝贝.
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Interesting info. However, in the end, everyone was wrong (myself included). LOL.😆
But the good part is, we got three games. Yay!
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The E宝往事 on the top is just the title of the giveaway, it has been the same as the last clue image, it translates to "Epic Game's past" (This part is not related to the actual giveaway)
The words on the bottom is the actual clue, I've posted a seperate comment below to explain that.
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top is "E宝往事" , E宝 is a cute nick name some of the chinese gamers created, they call Epic E宝, pinyin is E bao, and E stands and short for Epic, 宝 means baby or treasure, guess google choosed the second one, but it can also used as babe, for example you can call your lovely wife 宝 or 宝宝 or 宝贝.
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Thanks for the information. :) Interesting people gave Epic a cute nickname, the only one I have read here is Epig. :/
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top is "E宝往事" , E宝 is a cute nick name some of the chinese gamers created, they call Epic E宝, pinyin is E bao, and E stands and short for Epic, 宝 means baby or treasure, but it can also used as babe, for example you can call your lovely wife 宝 or 宝宝 or 宝贝.
往事 means past story, or old things or once upon a time.
This pic is from official account of Epic's chinese social media, they will release more clues for next games.
bottom is "他们烧的 实在太多了" means they burn too much, of course burn too much money, that is the clue. But I have no idea what the game is.
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Sheeesh, if they're giving No Man's Sky for free they're the best!
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in general they only giveaway indie games of little value or games with lots of dlcs like Borderlands 3 or with in-game purchases such as NBA 2k21 or GTA 5 just because they have to earn on it. so i don't count on No Man Sky at all
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That would be cool, I'm not sure I would get the game outside of a promotion or monthly-caliber bundle
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yes buy a game for 25% off which may well end up 100% off soon
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On Chinese social media, it was officially stated that discounted games won't be given away during the MEGA sales.
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always the assumptions, right. And even if the game would be given away for free 3 months later, hater would always hate
sadly
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Where are people getting NMS from? The image on the vault seems to imply some batman game if anything.
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I'm chinese, next week's game is most likely Max Payne 3, here is why:
According to this week's clue image, it says on the bottom: "They've burned up too much money" (This is a common saying in China which means that something costed a lot to make), in this case, Max Payne 3 is easily one of the biggest budget games with 105 Million spent on making it.
Another post by the official Chinese Epic Games earlier this week said that after Borderlands 3, the 3 other games given away in the next 3 weeks will not be games that are on sale on the EGS, Max Payne 3 matched that description.
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yeah with that clue (idk where it's actually from as I don't see it on the image) makes more sense as a yakuza game like others stated (prob one of 4-6).
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Yakuza games are possible since they are not on EGS yet, but none of them are as high budget as Max Payne 3.
The clue that said the next 3 games are not on sale on the EGS is posted on weibo, I'll edit my comment to include the screenshot
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Max Payne 3 is a 2012 game, it's no where as high profile as Borderlands 3
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Here is the new clue for tomorrow. Actually, there are several clues.
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BIOSHOCK COLLECTION really. NOT yakuza or sleeping dogs
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Bioshock looks 99% true. I never played the 2nd game, so I will try it.
And why don't they put the clues on the actual site and launcher instead of some obscure social networks?
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And it is BioShock: The Collection: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/bundles/bioshock-the-collection
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only remastered. the original ones are not included and obviously it come without achievements
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Why would you play the original if you have the remastered? If you care about that and achivement so much, you can always buy it on steam.
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According to some Steam reviews, original had lesser bugs.
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Ah, i see. Are the bugs game breaking or something?
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Some gamers reported frequent crashes especially when they tried saving game.
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I don't know. There's enough steam reviews complaining about it for me to say it must be valid. But I also only played through the remasters versions of 1 and 2 and beat them (not 100% achievements, 56/65 for #1 and 49/53 for #2), so if it was bad, it must not have been enough for me to put it down. However, it is possible that I looked into fixes on PCGamingWiki.
That said, if someone is interested in the game and hadn't bought it, it is at the very least worth trying to see if they'll have issues. Buying on steam has always and continues to be an option.
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It seems that it only applies to some people then. And i agreed with what you said; the game is free anyway, so it doesnt hurt to claim it, and if people think that they like it and want to get the original to avoid the bugs, they can always buy it later.
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Original Bioshock 2 crashed literally every 5 minutes. Remastered cannot be worse I guess
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whoa, the issue seems to be differ from person to person. ah, well. i guess we just need to find out whether this version will cause issues on our end.
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Yeah, still worth it. But I had to skip the DLC because it used to crash even faster, so spamming quick saves wasn't a "solution"
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I got Bioshock Remastered and Infinite on steam just this week... :/
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i also i own this collection at steam and i'm glad so because it have both the achievements and the originals bioshock 1 and 2
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According to you're play time (= 0 hours) and you have bought these games less than 14 days agos, i will try to ask a refund on steam.
Only work if you have bought them directly on steam
But in you're case that could work :)
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I traded for them, so it's sadly not an option. :D
Thanks for your effort though!
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the same. but i bought this collection for 5 dollars in january and have 5 games with all dlc.
don't worry
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BioShock: The Collection - Amazing freebie. I already had them on Steam, except for Bioshock Infinite's DLC, so getting the DLC for free is awesome. I really recommend playing them if you haven't already. They're great games and it'd be a shame for them to end up just as +1's, gathering digital dust in your library.
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the remastered ones are anyway worse than the originals for the sound and because they have fewer graphics options
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why worse? i played only in original many years ago
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I've completed the first remastered Bioshock and I've encountered 0 bugs.
I remember when my father was playing the original one, the game softlocked itself on multiple occasions and he had to reload an old save.
So it depends ...
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I don't know about said bugs. I have both versions and only played the originals. But, still, it's an extraordinary deal to have all three games for the amazing price of free, despite any potential bugs, thus allowing everyone to experience the Bioshock universe without spending a dime.
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How do you know? Did you Install it. The Remastered Versions come all with the Original Versions.
Why are you assuming something when in fact you have no idea at all...
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I'm sure. on EGS they came without the original classics. on steam and gog there are 5 separate installations and not just 3
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As someone who never played Bioshock everything is coming up Milhouse.
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i have been on the fence about getting it on steam, money saved
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BioShock: The Collection For Free?? Amazing!!
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it would have been really amazing if they gave away the whole bundle, classics included as you find on gog or steam
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I haven't tried the Remastered versions yet, but still is the entire franchise that is ALL 3 games + ALL DLC's for FREE.
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but the originals even according to the reviews looks better then the remastered ones
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Remastered versions can really cause a lot of headache. This does not apply to everyone, but for many people (including me) they work much worse than the originals, crashes a lot, and sometimes as result deletes current (and only) save file.
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They don't include the classics on Steam. Remastered versions were given for free to those who already had the classics but they are currently not included in the Collection.
https://store.steampowered.com/sub/127633/
I can't also see the classic versions being offered on GoG, as seen below:
https://www.gog.com/en/games?query=bioshock&order=desc:score
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Steam doesn't show them on the store page, but the originals are included in The Collection package:
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the Classic Versions should be part of all Remastered Editions
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While some people seem to never be satisfied (with bundles or freebies) and keep whining, I'm very happy to get the Bioshock Collection for free. I do have all three games on Steam, but no DLCs. I've heard good things about Minerva's Den so I might replay Bioshock 2 just for that. :)
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Back in the not Remastered era, I went to brutal loops to be able to play (legally, of course) Minerva's Den. They involved Windows Live, suffice to say. Still, the DLC was great
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I don't think I've ever had to deal with Windows Live... what was so bad about it?
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Oh, child. You are a lucky one.
Imagine the worst time you ever had with Origin, Steam, EGS... Nope. Never had that much trouble.
Well, for starters, to play a game, you needed to be logged in to Windows Live. If the connection of Steam fails, you can still play the game offline. Not with Windows Live, you needed to be logged in constantly. And it worked badly on its BEST days. On its bad days, it just didn't work.
It didn't add ANYTHING to a game. I buy a game on Steam, hey, it's a game I bought in Steam and has steamworks, that never bother me. Same with a game I bought in GOG, EGS, whatever. But Windows Live was with games bought offline, and never added anything. It was just a bother. Also, it didn't update manually, so you had to search for the windows live and install it yourself, that also installed a bunch of things that you never wanted. Do you know all patches that steam downloads and you don't notice, till it asks you to reset (or just do it later). You had to download with windows live ingame using GFWL INDIVIDUALLY one after the other, what a torture that was, especially with the awful slow progress bars.
After it went offline, so it didn't work ever again, some games STILL REQUIRED IT, so if you wanted to legally buy the single-player game you bought, well, you were out of luck.
Saved games were encripted (same with gamepass, by the way) and you couldn't copy them anywhere. Worse, since the encription sucked, multiple times your saved games were lost. Well, if a game corrupts your saved games, it really sucks. If a DRM that adds NOTHING to the game corrupts your saved, you want to send a hurricane to MIcrosoft's headquarters.
"You cannot save your game without logging in to Games for Windows Live."
"Games for Windows Live is being updated. Closing your game now."
I JUST WANT TO PLAY THIS PHYSICAL GAME I BOUGHT!
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/fallout-3-new-content-adventures-in-gfwl And the examples, problems, were everywhere, everyday.
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Mein Gott... what a pain in the rear it seemed to be. O_o
Reading your comment and then the RPS article, if that had happened to me, maybe I would have thrown my computer out of the window. Or destroyed something. Anything. I'm not sure I would have had the patience to do all that.
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quijote3000 put it quit nicely already. All in all DRM is for countering pirating. Of course pirates cracked gfwl in about three seconds. If you decided to pirate a game with gfwl, you just patched it not to work and game worked instantly without any performance losses or glitches with save files or whatever.
If you had the official version you where bound to have a non working or poorly working game... horrible .. just horrible... No words to describe the loathing it instilled in people. I have a feeling implementation of GFWL was not conceived by any rational thinking person.
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There is a new clue on Chinese media for June 2, 2022.
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My first guess is Doom (2016). The number of H and A's in each image is 4, 15, 15, 13. Those are the letters D O O M in the althabet.
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I don't know if it's true or not but very impressive analisys, regardless
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Yeah it's an impressive guess, I feel like everyone should own Doom at this point though.. It's always dirt cheap
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All the more reason to give it away. They still get the positive press associated with giving away a AAA game without having to worry about it impacting sales.
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Dude, that's incredible reasoning, I hope you're right.
Not because I want Doom but because of that deduction.
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There's is a high probability for that it's a game of Take-Two. The pattern is similar to May 2020 with GTA V, Civilization VI and Borderland's Handsome Collection.
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I heard about Collection (New order and Old blood)
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Hopefully, we get all 4 games: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15435/Wolfenstein_Alt_History_Collection/
But we cannot be sure of that.
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Would be cool, then I could refund my New Colossus on Steam :)
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Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is on sale:
https://store.epicgames.com/p/wolfenstein-the-old-blood
And it is part of that collection, so probably we will only get Wolfenstein: The New Order, not on sale:
https://store.epicgames.com/p/wolfenstein-the-new-order
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What Wolfenstein? The number clue is clearly Doom. And I would prefer Doom collection (1+Eternal) to Wolfenstein collection, to be honest
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The number clue is Doom, but it is actually an easter egg in Wolfenstein.
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Goddamn, I never took a closer look at that number.
The scene made it hard to focus on the little things.
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I always think that those of epic fail should fix the launcher and improve the services and the features instead of giving away games to actract poor peoples. people don't buy from epic anyway because it sucks
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I can buy wherever I want. If it is cheaper...
I don't need trading cards and other annoying Steam-spam
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i like achievements, the remote play and workshop and i don't like epic beacuse more games don't have them. it doesn't even have a forum and a good chat which is fundamental for a platform
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same i don't even collect the free games and i don't feel buying games from Epic is good as there is a much higher chance to get it free soon rather than later
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But not all the games are using their launcher. I bought a few Uplay Games from them and it uses the Uplay Launcher.
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Apparently "people" do buy from Epic Games Store:
https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/epic-games-store-2021-year-in-review
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We only get one game this week: https://store.epicgames.com/p/wolfenstein-the-new-order
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Meh, too old, everybody played it by now (me 8 years ago)
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Finished it a few weeks ago on Steam, it's a really cool game. Well-worth to pick it up.
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Slim pickings lately. I guess they can't keep giving away several recent games for free every week forever... who knew??
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Heh like the guy trying to fix the vending machine by putting more coins in it
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If I'm not mistaken since the start it generally is one game a week, unless the game is rated 18 and up, then another game is also given away so that people of all ages could get something for free each week. There are occasional exceptions where 3 games were given away, like on March 3rd and May 12th. The Christmas holiday is also another one of the exceptions to the norm, as there's an every day promo happening from around the middle of December to around New Years.
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You're most likely right about the number of games. I seem to recall a couple of times when there were more than one but I don't follow it enough to know when. Still, the quality of the games has been downhill. It's not really sustainable when you're the ONLY one giving games away.
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Beggars can't be choosers, although I would've liked it a little more if Epic paired it along The New Colossus. I guess it's a difference after two epic (no pun intended, or maybe lol) giveaways like BL3 and the Bioshock Trilogy.
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So I'm making the move over to a new thread since the whole table/description was getting unwieldy. If you are looking for the past deals/discussion you can find it here
Here is the store
NOTE: games update on Thursdays at 11 am EST.
NOTE: deals back to weekly
Current Deal:
Saints Row IV Re-Elected Edition
Wildcat Gun Machine
Next Deal:
Daily Deals
As a reminder you can find the older deals on the previous thread
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