That’s certainly an opinion. Mine is that participating in leeching their freebies and not actually engaging in the platform in a meaningful way costs them money with zero benefit. They’re giving away games to get people into their ecosystem. If players aren’t participating in the ecosystem, then it’s not working and just costing money. This is techbro 101.

You’re entitled to your opinion. But you’re not changing my mind on this.

And you’re out here defending them. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Epic is subsidizing the sale of the games. It costs them money and muddies their metrics.

Correct. Fuck Epic. They’re awful.

Full transparency though, I’ve played precisely one game on epic games store, Alan Wake 2 because I like Remedy as a developer and want to support them. Alan Wake 2 will never come out on any other platform and I’m not buying a console to play one game.

Step 1: Redeem games through my web browser.

That’s it, there is no step 2.

I want to do the math here, but I’m already late to the party. Amazon sells sex toys as health and beauty products. It’s a thin vaneer of plausible deniability. I’d be curious if Amazon is actually large enough financially to actually leverage the large processors. I would be honestly surprised if Amazon is handling a large enough stake by themselves to offset literally every other vendor on the planet combined. But they might. I don’t actually know.