“It Takes Two” is the game you are looking for.

I agree for “free to play” games, but not for the store. The idea is that if you use their store you might convert to a customer or start playing their “free to play” games like Fortnite. If you never do, then you are nothing but a cost center. The idea of “we have tons of customers” doesn’t really track either because articles like the one posted here shine the light on how non-sensical their giveaways are.

Another angle could be to get you into their store everytime you want to play your giveaway game. Maybe that way they can hook you with something else. That should not be a problem if you use apps.like Heroic Game Launcher and bypass the Epic app altogether to play your games.

By redeeming Epic giveaways and never buying anything you are sending profits to the developer while simultaneously costing Epic money. Win/Win.

That logic only works if said users transition into paying customers. Epic wants you to either buy games from them or get hooked intonone of their “free” games like Fortnite. They do not profit at all by people redeeming and playing giveaways.

If you buy games from Epic you give Epic your money. If you redeem free games from Epic, you support the devs and cost Epic money. Win/Win.

As for Prime, if you have to pay for Prime for other reasons, you might as well as expensive a customer as possible. If you don’t have to have Prime, then I agree. Avoid it and Bezos can rot.

Henry Cavill is furiously masturbating right now.

I own a few copies of Total War I got through giveaways. Can anyone recommend some good tutorials for someone who has never even booted up a TW game?

I transitioned to GeForce Now for extremely graphically demanding games. Games like Total War do very well on the cloud.

Nice Pet Shop Boys cover.

Definitely Cyberpunk is a great choice as its built in systems try to pull you into stuff all the time. Don’t sleep on Just Cause 3&4 too.

How to sell a gajillion copies of a game.

Step 1: Hire Laura Bailey
Step 2: Profit

Probably Portal 2, but I plan to try Dispatch as soon as it has completed.

Nintendo…not even pirated. I refuse to even contribute to their popularity given their litigiousness and patent bullshittery.

Don’t yuck someone’s yum. Thinking something tastes like shit does not mean you are welcome to take a dump in someone else’s porridge.

This week, I’m trying Dune: Imperium.

Why buy a new game when you have no money and your backlog will take years to go through?

• Portal 2
• Persona 4 Golden
• Galaga

Honorable mentions:

• Titanfall 2
• Destiny/Destiny2 (sometimes)
• Baldies Gate 3

Kind of off topic, but this just activated one of my trap card rants,

The United States is a VERY litigious country. The biggest motivator in America is profit, and the possibility of lawsuits is contrary to profit. Fucking over indie devs selling niche games that makes a few bucks on Steam is a lot cheaper than the legal expenses of a lawsuit and the bad press of “Mastercard funds child pornography”.

It isn’t about fairness. It’s about profit.

They are both telling the truth, which is how the best lies work.

Mastercard: “It’s all good as long as it is legal”.

Religious zealots: “Games depict sex with children!!!”

Steam/Itch: “Which games?”

Zealots: “Yes”

Mastercard: “Sex with children is illegal. Get rid of those games.”

Steam/Itch: “Which games???”

Mastercard: “That’s a you problem. Figure it out and get rid of them or lose the ability to process payments.”

Steam/Itch: *pulls most NSFW games while they figure out “which games”

In Lemmy, there are dozens of us, but that doesn’t mean we can’t recruit people we know who are on Facebook, Instagram, Xitter, Bluesky, TikTok, etc.

It’s not difficult to imagine what kind of expression these groups might decide to deem as unacceptable next.

Literally the bottom line. They have found something that works, and they are going to use and abuse it.

You best be glad these sailors are drunk and laying about on their hoard. Before Steam, those sailors were pirates. Do not tempt them to set sail again.

Laying the groundwork for mass layoffs after a successful launch.

I was going to send them a $1 until I saw that the soundtrack is 100% AI generated using Suno.

I just searched for updates on the matter and found a Lemmy post with a youtube video.

https://ttrpg.network/post/20689101

Hopefully they fix Daggerheart’s open-license. Last I looked it was problematic to say the least.

Demo is live

I am loving Cleared Hot. It brings me back to my youth when MicroProse reigned supreme.

I only play AAA games on GeForce Now (cloud). If the game can’t run on my Linux system or on the cloud, I ain’t touching it. Also, there are so many wonderful games that do not require a colonoscopy into your personal data to be played.

I think it’s the right call.

For context:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/05/19/its-just-over-for-marathon/

For certain. I hope nobody thinks I’m dismissing this awesome move. I just wanted to know how much each individual got.

I used the numbers from their financial disclosure. I have no idea where the article got its information.

The stat I found was 2950 employees world wide as of June 2024.