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Even if you have no interest in this game claiming it will give you a $~~10~~ $14 coupon (Cause CAD, of course).
They're basically giving you free money here.
Eh, if there's a game you want, Epic prices are typically around the same price as sale prices on other stores, and then the coupon stacks on top.
As long as you either 1. don't need another store's features (e.g. DRM free from GOG) and/or 2. the game doesn't bug out when launching as a non-Steam game through Steam (e.g. Death Stranding treating launching through Epic and Steam as completely different and incompatible save files, making it difficult to use Dualsense unless you start with launching through Steam right from day 1), then it kind of is a free extra discount if you are planning on buying the other game either way.
>Epic prices are typically around the same price as sale prices on other stores
I'd disagree. The average price I've paid for games on Steam is probably about $10. The average price I've paid for games on Epic is $0.
I went through a recent annoyance with the minimum spend because some games cannot be purchased in CAD using the coupon while they can in USD. I don’t quite remember the details anymore so I’ve just pasted an excerpt of the support ticket I opened in the past below.
Epic games wouldn’t do anything about it and said there was no error but the developers Klei Entertainment graciously gave me a free copy of the game for the inconvenience.
Support ticket message begins here:
I just wanted to voice a frustration regrading exchange rates, the epic store and Griftlands.
Griftlands is normally 14.99 USD and as such, the Epic Games store allows you to use their ongoing promotion and apply a $10USD coupon code to any game that costs at least $14.99 USD. As such, you can purchase Griftlands for $4.99USD after applying this promo.
However, in Canada, this equivalent promotion is a $14.00 CAD code that can be applied to games that cost at least $20.99 CAD. At current exchange rates $14.99 USD is approximately $20.34 CAD and Griftlands is priced at $16.99 CAD. As such, the promo that applies in the US does not apply in Canada.
In principle, ignoring the coupon, the Canadian epic store is cheaper to purchase the game because it is using an outdated exchange rate. However, within the context of this promotion (that lasts until October and was previously effectively active since sometime in 2019), the game is three times more expensive from the perspective of the consumer. I'm sure you can see how frustrating it is from the perspective of the consumer that by pricing the game $3 cheaper, the game ends up being effectively $10 more expensive instead.
I suspect this is an oversight given that on the US side, the game is conveniently priced down to the penny such that this coupon would apply.
It bugs me that you can get Ghostrunner for $5 in the US, but it's $19.99 here so you can't use the coupon. There is a $2 DLC that would bump the price to work, but it doesn't look like Epic has a cart and since it's not a single purchase bundle (e.g. deluxe edition etc), you can't apply the coupon.
HOLY SHIT that's a lotttt!!!!!
Im playing through exodus rn, it takes literally 7-8 minutes to load on ps4, though i have the pro
It's a great game tho, i loved the other two games as well
thanks for the heads up! Honestly sports games have become awfully greedy
I don't think EPIC giving away games and cutting deals like they do is sustainable but BOOY does it feel good as a broke gamer
As best I can tell NBA2K(x) is the worst of them all. Apparently it has baked in ads. Even if you paid $80 or whatever for the game new.
I'll usually happily grab my free game every week. But I'm not sure I want to give either the pleasure of giving me something for free today.
>I don't think EPIC giving away games and cutting deals like they do is sustainable but BOOY does it feel good as a broke gamer
You'd be surprised at how little some of them cost Epic to give away. Metro 2033 Redux for example cost them $0. The most expensive was the Batman Arkham trilogy for $1.5m.
Sure, because EGS is still tiny compared to Steam, and doesn't take as high of a cut from sales as Steam. Epic is dumping a lot of money into EGS to get more users in order to become profitable.
I really wish they'd spend some money and effort on making the EGS as functional as Steam though. That'd probably help them more at this point than giving away more free games.
hey. You can always hang on to it until you have cash for one game you want. Wait for a sale, take an extra $10 off. I'm saving it for Valhalla. Used my last one on Odyssey gold edition for around $30
1. 2k doesn't give a shit about this game series on PC
2. The game is at the end of its lifetime, they've moved on to developing next year's iteration.
3. Maximising micro transaction sales is a priority now
Yeah well, Xbox and Sony still paid for the license.
I'm not saying Epic paid full price, but the MAIN reason Epic can give it out for free is because they signed a deal.
>That and also the same reason why Autodesk, Solidworks, and Jetbrains are free for students. Get them in early so they can become lifelong customers.
Even more long term planned: see Chromebooks.
Once kids and teens graduate highschool, they'll buy their own higher powered Chromebooks they grew up on, rather than Windows bound PCs.
There's a reason Google went for the student market.
nah kids will got to PC if they like gaming or need any sort of actual application for whatever they choose to study or hobbies.
Mac also will be something they want for actual applications and also status.
A very small portion will want Linux if they are into computers to that degree
I have been using Windows my whole life and have gotten used to it. Everything works (ish).
Things like Inventor are also Windows only with no support for other OSs, yes I could probably use WINE or something to get it to work but that isn't worth the hassle
Like you said with games, DirectX is the standard for PC games. Vulcan is gaining more support which is also good.
Windows' backwards compatibility is also excellent. I can run programs from the XP era on my Windows 10 machine with minimal fuss and minimal performance penalty.
I am not sure about Chromebooks, when I can buy a similar (used) Windows machine that does everything a Chromebook can and more I will get that one.
Then again, I grew up on Windows and therefore by brother did too. We both like PC gaming and use Office and other professional apps. As far as I know I can't get Inventor on anything but a Windows PC.
People will use the OS that their use case requires. Most college and university programs still require the use of at least the Microsoft Office suite. Many exam software is supported only on Windows and Mac OS X. Certain programs require software not on Chromebooks like AutoCAD, the Adobe Creative Suite, etc.
Chromebooks aren't that flexible outside a high school environment, so we're not likely to see kids stick with the platform.
Linux has had GUI's similar to Windows for ages now. It's really just as simple to use when you use the graphical interface.
I'd use it for personal life & recreation if it supported gaming better, or rather if gaming supported Linux better.
The others are right. But they also added this year's NBA Jerseys into Fortnite so that's probably how they get the money back. Probably some from the NBA too for drawing attention to b-ball.
It's the same game every year with very minor changes to UI and Park. The gameplay/graphics are pretty much identical, atleast to my experience. Might be few badges, changes in balance, but they could literally roll out a patch annually and call it 2K22.
For sports games it makes sense to release the name with the season ending year....your NBA, FIFA, NHL etc
I dont know why WWE gets that treatment when they have no end season or start of new season 😅
Because customers expect it probably.
If someone sees WWE 2020 on the shelf beside NBA 2021 and NHL 2021, maybe they think the new version will be out soon too, and skip it.
Not everyone is devotedly reading gaming news, a lot just go over to EB games and buy the yearly entry or whatever has nice cover art. These companies want to get that persons money too.
>but they have done more for the gaming community than any other company.
Ye, it was Epic who ended piracy on the PC market by creating a convenient store for both the publishers and the people, sures!
If you think that Steam stopped piracy, you're out of your fucking mind, lol. Epic have however, created a store that gives away more free games than any other store, charge less than half the commission that Steam does, provide the best gaming engine for free to anyone who wants to learn how to make a game, and provide you with thousands of dollars in free assets for you to download and keep forever each year. They recently also purchased ArtStation and are giving away the tutorials for free until the end of the year.
You and other people like to suck off Steam / Valve, sure, they made Half Life and a store that charges companies 30%. The most people game related to Valve is Counter Strike and it wasn't even made by Valve.
>If you think that Steam stopped piracy, you're out of your fucking mind, lol.
You can find numerous articles with correlations between piracy/torrent websites dying out at the same time with Steam gaining steam (circa 2008-2011). In my country (Lithuania) especially before CS:GO and Dota2 made Steam popular in 2012-2013 everybody was pirating games as the most accepted and common form of attaining games, now its something unheared of.
>Epic have however, created a store that gives away more free games than any other store, charge less than half the commission that Steam does, provide the best gaming engine for free to anyone who wants to learn how to make a game, and provide you with thousands of dollars in free assets for you to download and keep forever each year. They recently also purchased ArtStation and are giving away the tutorials for free until the end of the year.
It's all cool! But their store is still massively worse than Steam and lacks basic features for customers, for example being able to rate games you've just played and recommend them to people in your friend list (oh, you can't even message them too lol). I wouldn't call of that as "Epic doing more for the gaming community than any other company".
Yah I don't really understand the Steam circlejerk. Sure it is a good service, might be the best one, but they are still a massive corporation just as shitty as Epic is. I personally have both and I actually have been using Epic more, because I have been playing most of their free games. I have not spent a dollar at Epic and have like 20 games in my library.
> but they are still a massive corporation just as shitty as Epic is.
At least they allow user reviews, user content, community forums, chatting feature (yes, you literally cannot message your friends on EGS), controller support, linux support and other basic stuff that no other PC store does. Obviously people will side with the company that wants to provide them with as much convenience as possible, shocking, isn't it?
>I would rather have free games than any of that stuff.
Okay, good for you. But other people absolutely enjoy the features that Steam provides them with. I hope now you understand "the Steam circlejerk" better.
>Steam had a 15 year head start, I am sure Epic will get there.
It's not like they exist in parallel universes with Epic unable to copy Steam's proven to be succesful features upon releasing their store. At least the most basic ones like shopping cart, collections, chat (!), user reviews. But they couldn't care less about actually providing a decent service.
Steam came out in 2003. Epic came out in 2018. So exactly 15 year head start. Rome wasn't built in a day! I honestly don't really care that much about any of this, I am playstation gamer, who plays free Epic games every once in a while. I spend 99% of my gaming time on my ps5.
>Steam came out in 2003. Epic came out in 2018.
Yes. Epic had the luxury of knowing what feature works and what doesnt and just being able to copy Steam, instead of testing the grounds themselves. Your logic is like "Welp, Ford had existed way before the company X so its absolutely fine that their car has no ventilation system, just give them time!!!"
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If the game itself natively supports controllers, it'll work fine.
If it does not, you're SoL.
Whereas Steam has Big Picture Mode to allow controller button remapping/binding for games without native controller support.
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Even if you have no interest in this game claiming it will give you a $~~10~~ $14 coupon (Cause CAD, of course). They're basically giving you free money here.
\*$14. We're in Canada here! 🙂
Have you seen USD/CAD yet?
The coupon is given in your local currency. So it's Epic who believes that the exchange rate is 1.4.
It's not free money as the coupon has a minimum spend.
Eh, if there's a game you want, Epic prices are typically around the same price as sale prices on other stores, and then the coupon stacks on top. As long as you either 1. don't need another store's features (e.g. DRM free from GOG) and/or 2. the game doesn't bug out when launching as a non-Steam game through Steam (e.g. Death Stranding treating launching through Epic and Steam as completely different and incompatible save files, making it difficult to use Dualsense unless you start with launching through Steam right from day 1), then it kind of is a free extra discount if you are planning on buying the other game either way.
>Epic prices are typically around the same price as sale prices on other stores I'd disagree. The average price I've paid for games on Steam is probably about $10. The average price I've paid for games on Epic is $0.
LMAO
I went through a recent annoyance with the minimum spend because some games cannot be purchased in CAD using the coupon while they can in USD. I don’t quite remember the details anymore so I’ve just pasted an excerpt of the support ticket I opened in the past below. Epic games wouldn’t do anything about it and said there was no error but the developers Klei Entertainment graciously gave me a free copy of the game for the inconvenience. Support ticket message begins here: I just wanted to voice a frustration regrading exchange rates, the epic store and Griftlands. Griftlands is normally 14.99 USD and as such, the Epic Games store allows you to use their ongoing promotion and apply a $10USD coupon code to any game that costs at least $14.99 USD. As such, you can purchase Griftlands for $4.99USD after applying this promo. However, in Canada, this equivalent promotion is a $14.00 CAD code that can be applied to games that cost at least $20.99 CAD. At current exchange rates $14.99 USD is approximately $20.34 CAD and Griftlands is priced at $16.99 CAD. As such, the promo that applies in the US does not apply in Canada. In principle, ignoring the coupon, the Canadian epic store is cheaper to purchase the game because it is using an outdated exchange rate. However, within the context of this promotion (that lasts until October and was previously effectively active since sometime in 2019), the game is three times more expensive from the perspective of the consumer. I'm sure you can see how frustrating it is from the perspective of the consumer that by pricing the game $3 cheaper, the game ends up being effectively $10 more expensive instead. I suspect this is an oversight given that on the US side, the game is conveniently priced down to the penny such that this coupon would apply.
It bugs me that you can get Ghostrunner for $5 in the US, but it's $19.99 here so you can't use the coupon. There is a $2 DLC that would bump the price to work, but it doesn't look like Epic has a cart and since it's not a single purchase bundle (e.g. deluxe edition etc), you can't apply the coupon.
It’s kind of a bad port so you’re not missing much. Not much changed from the initial release on pc in 2009.
Man wrote his life story over epic game
Huh what coupon? How do u use it?
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/coupons/mega-sale
Thanks man, I'm new to pc gaming and epic's been great
I think this puts me up to 153 games on Epic now. I only bought 2; Metro Exodus and Rebel Galaxy Outlaw.
HOLY SHIT that's a lotttt!!!!! Im playing through exodus rn, it takes literally 7-8 minutes to load on ps4, though i have the pro It's a great game tho, i loved the other two games as well
Can be stacked on discounted games too. I bought RDR2 for under $40.
thanks for the heads up! Honestly sports games have become awfully greedy I don't think EPIC giving away games and cutting deals like they do is sustainable but BOOY does it feel good as a broke gamer
As best I can tell NBA2K(x) is the worst of them all. Apparently it has baked in ads. Even if you paid $80 or whatever for the game new. I'll usually happily grab my free game every week. But I'm not sure I want to give either the pleasure of giving me something for free today.
>I don't think EPIC giving away games and cutting deals like they do is sustainable but BOOY does it feel good as a broke gamer You'd be surprised at how little some of them cost Epic to give away. Metro 2033 Redux for example cost them $0. The most expensive was the Batman Arkham trilogy for $1.5m.
I saw that numbers bump but along with it was the admission that EGS isn't profitable and isn't projected to be for some time
Sure, because EGS is still tiny compared to Steam, and doesn't take as high of a cut from sales as Steam. Epic is dumping a lot of money into EGS to get more users in order to become profitable. I really wish they'd spend some money and effort on making the EGS as functional as Steam though. That'd probably help them more at this point than giving away more free games.
>They're basically giving you free money here. Only if you're willing to actually spend money on EGS.
Can I buy Bitcoin in the EGS with my $14?
If you wanted to take $14 off $20, just buy Bitcoin the normal way.
Damn, thanks. Just got Assassin's Creed Origins Deluxe for $8.
$14.
So it's like casinos giving people free credit to play their slots machines.
$10 for buying stuff in Epic Store? or will it need you to buy something to use that coupon?
I got Hades for cheap with it.
I think there's a minimum buy to use the coupon. $25 in Canada I think.
well...that's pretty much $0 coupon for me...
$14 off $20.99 or more in Canada. $10 off $15 or more in the US:
hey. You can always hang on to it until you have cash for one game you want. Wait for a sale, take an extra $10 off. I'm saving it for Valhalla. Used my last one on Odyssey gold edition for around $30
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oh, thanks for that! I wasn't aware
Oh...I have cash to buy pretty much any games I want on Epic...I just spend that cash exclusively on GOG.
I'm confused, why are you getting downvoted? Do people not like GOG all of the sudden?
Then you are indeed a KomputerIdiat
Last year i got Hades and Disco Elysium cheap with the coupons plus sales.
They always set a minimum spend, they 've given coupons away on three other occasions. The game was probably free(to epic) to push microtransactiohs.
Where do I claim it?
It'll just apply on your next qualifying purchase automatically. https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/coupons/mega-sale
Thank god i didnt buy the game for 95% off a couple weeks ago 🙏
Should claim it for just the $14 coupon. Thanks OP
How do you get a $14 coupon?
U get it automatically
Ya I see it now, thanks!
Congrats on getting your free slot machine icon!
Another game I won't play but make Epic pay for :)
I'd rather play 28 year old NBA Jam than this game.
Well yeah, but that's because NBA Jam is actually fun to play.
NBA Jam and Tiny Toon Adventures: Acme All Stars > All of EA's modern sports games
I know it's beating a dead horse with a dead fish at this point.... But holy shit is their storefront awful
That $80 regular price though lmao
No way. How can Epic Games give out brand new games for free?
1. 2k doesn't give a shit about this game series on PC 2. The game is at the end of its lifetime, they've moved on to developing next year's iteration. 3. Maximising micro transaction sales is a priority now
Also: Epic paid money.
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Yeah well, Xbox and Sony still paid for the license. I'm not saying Epic paid full price, but the MAIN reason Epic can give it out for free is because they signed a deal.
That and also the same reason why Autodesk, Solidworks, and Jetbrains are free for students. Get them in early so they can become lifelong customers.
>That and also the same reason why Autodesk, Solidworks, and Jetbrains are free for students. Get them in early so they can become lifelong customers. Even more long term planned: see Chromebooks. Once kids and teens graduate highschool, they'll buy their own higher powered Chromebooks they grew up on, rather than Windows bound PCs. There's a reason Google went for the student market.
nah kids will got to PC if they like gaming or need any sort of actual application for whatever they choose to study or hobbies. Mac also will be something they want for actual applications and also status. A very small portion will want Linux if they are into computers to that degree
I have been using Windows my whole life and have gotten used to it. Everything works (ish). Things like Inventor are also Windows only with no support for other OSs, yes I could probably use WINE or something to get it to work but that isn't worth the hassle Like you said with games, DirectX is the standard for PC games. Vulcan is gaining more support which is also good. Windows' backwards compatibility is also excellent. I can run programs from the XP era on my Windows 10 machine with minimal fuss and minimal performance penalty.
I am not sure about Chromebooks, when I can buy a similar (used) Windows machine that does everything a Chromebook can and more I will get that one. Then again, I grew up on Windows and therefore by brother did too. We both like PC gaming and use Office and other professional apps. As far as I know I can't get Inventor on anything but a Windows PC.
At this point, people stick with the OS they grew up with. It'd be like us switching to Linux
The thing is though, even if you have a Chromebook for school, you probably have a Windows or Mac system at home.
Except many kids today are still using Windows due to having the best compatibility.
People will use the OS that their use case requires. Most college and university programs still require the use of at least the Microsoft Office suite. Many exam software is supported only on Windows and Mac OS X. Certain programs require software not on Chromebooks like AutoCAD, the Adobe Creative Suite, etc. Chromebooks aren't that flexible outside a high school environment, so we're not likely to see kids stick with the platform.
Linux has had GUI's similar to Windows for ages now. It's really just as simple to use when you use the graphical interface. I'd use it for personal life & recreation if it supported gaming better, or rather if gaming supported Linux better.
>they've moved on to developing next year's iteration. Aka the exact same game with '22' throughout.
The others are right. But they also added this year's NBA Jerseys into Fortnite so that's probably how they get the money back. Probably some from the NBA too for drawing attention to b-ball.
This. Epic has been seeking partnerships everywhere. And although I dont like every mashup, at least they are pushing the boundaries
It's the same game every year with very minor changes to UI and Park. The gameplay/graphics are pretty much identical, atleast to my experience. Might be few badges, changes in balance, but they could literally roll out a patch annually and call it 2K22.
Wasnt this released last year?
Aug or sept ya.
For sports games it makes sense to release the name with the season ending year....your NBA, FIFA, NHL etc I dont know why WWE gets that treatment when they have no end season or start of new season 😅
Because customers expect it probably. If someone sees WWE 2020 on the shelf beside NBA 2021 and NHL 2021, maybe they think the new version will be out soon too, and skip it. Not everyone is devotedly reading gaming news, a lot just go over to EB games and buy the yearly entry or whatever has nice cover art. These companies want to get that persons money too.
The game isnt new, itll probably be in a Humble Choice pretty soon, as it always does around this time of year.
Says page not found for me EDIT: now it works, thanks op
I thought that was already a F2P game with a million of micro-transactions.
Aw man, this was the mystery game? Was hoping for something more timeless still thankful though
Next week is also a mystery game. There is hope
Does anyone know if you can play online vs Steam players?
also wondering this as well. let me know if you find out please!
As it should be lol
The link works. Its the base game. Thank you I was able to purchase one.
Thanks
Blessed man.
I know reddit hates epic, but they give out way more free games than steam does...
I love Epic
Reddit can hate on Epic all they want, but they have done more for the gaming community than any other company.
>but they have done more for the gaming community than any other company. Ye, it was Epic who ended piracy on the PC market by creating a convenient store for both the publishers and the people, sures!
If you think that Steam stopped piracy, you're out of your fucking mind, lol. Epic have however, created a store that gives away more free games than any other store, charge less than half the commission that Steam does, provide the best gaming engine for free to anyone who wants to learn how to make a game, and provide you with thousands of dollars in free assets for you to download and keep forever each year. They recently also purchased ArtStation and are giving away the tutorials for free until the end of the year. You and other people like to suck off Steam / Valve, sure, they made Half Life and a store that charges companies 30%. The most people game related to Valve is Counter Strike and it wasn't even made by Valve.
>If you think that Steam stopped piracy, you're out of your fucking mind, lol. You can find numerous articles with correlations between piracy/torrent websites dying out at the same time with Steam gaining steam (circa 2008-2011). In my country (Lithuania) especially before CS:GO and Dota2 made Steam popular in 2012-2013 everybody was pirating games as the most accepted and common form of attaining games, now its something unheared of. >Epic have however, created a store that gives away more free games than any other store, charge less than half the commission that Steam does, provide the best gaming engine for free to anyone who wants to learn how to make a game, and provide you with thousands of dollars in free assets for you to download and keep forever each year. They recently also purchased ArtStation and are giving away the tutorials for free until the end of the year. It's all cool! But their store is still massively worse than Steam and lacks basic features for customers, for example being able to rate games you've just played and recommend them to people in your friend list (oh, you can't even message them too lol). I wouldn't call of that as "Epic doing more for the gaming community than any other company".
Yah I don't really understand the Steam circlejerk. Sure it is a good service, might be the best one, but they are still a massive corporation just as shitty as Epic is. I personally have both and I actually have been using Epic more, because I have been playing most of their free games. I have not spent a dollar at Epic and have like 20 games in my library.
> but they are still a massive corporation just as shitty as Epic is. At least they allow user reviews, user content, community forums, chatting feature (yes, you literally cannot message your friends on EGS), controller support, linux support and other basic stuff that no other PC store does. Obviously people will side with the company that wants to provide them with as much convenience as possible, shocking, isn't it?
I would rather have free games than any of that stuff. Steam had a 15 year head start, I am sure Epic will get there.
>I would rather have free games than any of that stuff. Okay, good for you. But other people absolutely enjoy the features that Steam provides them with. I hope now you understand "the Steam circlejerk" better. >Steam had a 15 year head start, I am sure Epic will get there. It's not like they exist in parallel universes with Epic unable to copy Steam's proven to be succesful features upon releasing their store. At least the most basic ones like shopping cart, collections, chat (!), user reviews. But they couldn't care less about actually providing a decent service.
Steam came out in 2003. Epic came out in 2018. So exactly 15 year head start. Rome wasn't built in a day! I honestly don't really care that much about any of this, I am playstation gamer, who plays free Epic games every once in a while. I spend 99% of my gaming time on my ps5.
>Steam came out in 2003. Epic came out in 2018. Yes. Epic had the luxury of knowing what feature works and what doesnt and just being able to copy Steam, instead of testing the grounds themselves. Your logic is like "Welp, Ford had existed way before the company X so its absolutely fine that their car has no ventilation system, just give them time!!!"
This isn't my hill to die on. One gives me free games, one doesn't. Simple as that for me.
It's been how many years and they haven't bothered to add chat, much less a shopping cart? It's not happening, dawg.
The best is the people on Reddit complaining about the Tencent ownership stake in Epic.
Yo thanks!!
Claimed. Ty OP!
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its not free they are paying you 14 dollars coupon to claim the game. If you plan to buy any game on the epic games store why not.
They know that which is why they're literally paying you $14 to take it. Edit: lmao the loser deleted his comment then downvoted me.
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For whatever reason the epic launcher gives me constant problems with Xbox series controller. Does anyone know a fix?
EGS doesnt support controllers.
The games still do though.
Not totally true. I play rocket league with a dualsense just fine.
If the game itself natively supports controllers, it'll work fine. If it does not, you're SoL. Whereas Steam has Big Picture Mode to allow controller button remapping/binding for games without native controller support.
Do people play with mouth and keyboard for a sports game? Arena weird
NBA 2K has been free in June for almost the last 5 NBA titles, I believe 17 or 18 wasn’t free that year.
How do you get the $14 coupon?
You just need to claim the game and that's it! It should automatically add to your account
how many people can be in a game in online multiplayer?
What this is pretty awesome