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Posted by Snathony
 - June 01, 2020, 07:11:52
The author is clearly a novice gamer and has superficial knowledge about the gaming industry in India and around the world
Posted by Kris
 - May 31, 2020, 01:44:02
"Rlly? You have enough money for internet, but 8 dollars/10 euros for the most popular game in the world is too much?"

Just as weirdly stated as the article.
Let's say that money is tight, internet would obviously be a better priority than games.
Also where,besides Argentina, can you find GTA V for $10? In most countries is over$20 and some over $40 on Steam.
Source: SteamDB
Posted by Markm1990
 - May 30, 2020, 17:48:17
Someone said:
I've been wanting to play gta all this time, but it was just too expensive for me.

Rlly? You have enough money for internet, but 8 dollars/10 euros for the most popular game in the world is too much?
Posted by Matheus Gabriel Julian
 - May 30, 2020, 16:18:36
ARK survuval evolved
Will be available for free next week on Epic Games Store ;D
Posted by Goran Arsic
 - May 30, 2020, 10:39:57
I don't understand purpose of this article. Epic is building consumer base enabling gamers to have libraries with good games for a start. It's a good strategy. Although i am Steam user, i think competition is a good thing and Epic is a serious player.

After giving away Surviving Mars and Mutant Year Zero i started buying from them, Borderlands 3 right away. Now I have Civ and can buy Rise and Fall for 5 euros so this franchise is locked for Epic, Borderlands 3 also

Posted by EstebanRelei
 - May 30, 2020, 09:31:42
Yeah, I've been wanting to play GTA V for years but it's too expensive for me and I really don't like to pirate games so this was really helpful
Posted by Lener
 - May 30, 2020, 07:57:37
The next free game is ark survival evolved
Posted by Nemanja
 - May 30, 2020, 07:48:25
I am from southeast Europe and I grew up on pirated games. It wasn't even a choice, because even if I wanted to pay for a legal game (which I could not afford), the only originals in the country were the ones sent to journalists for reviews.

Nowadays I am happy to use platforms like Steam, GOG and Epic to purchase titles from my fav developers. A way to pay them back for happy childhood experiences.

As for Epic, the tactic worked in my case. I came from Steam (~300 titles) for free Xmas games, and ended up purchasing Phoenix Point and AC Odyssey shortly after.
Posted by Kris
 - May 30, 2020, 07:14:16
Easy, they are for people who want to play them. Mystery solved!

Consider this scenario:
You own a PS3, you buy GTA.
Then you buy a PS4 and GTA again.
Then you start playing more on PC and might want to get GTA again.

It's not that mind-blowing that the 120m sold copies aren't unique sales.

I recommend doing some research.
Posted by Tetsu
 - May 30, 2020, 04:10:12
Here's the thing though, plenty of people haven't bought or pirated it by virtue of not giving enough of a s***. That includes me and a third of my friends list on steam. Getting real presumptuous here.

Unrelated note, that "highly upvoted post" has 167 upvotes on a subreddit with less than 8000 subs. It's not really relevant to any discussion.
Posted by Math17
 - May 30, 2020, 03:59:37
What the heck is this article about? It appears to me that it have been written by someone who doesn't know anything about being a gamer.
Posted by Randall
 - May 30, 2020, 01:41:04
I understand the gta part. But is the Witcher price a typo? Because even though it's in sale right now on steam it's $11.99 and when not on sale it's $39.99 and I'm pretty sure that's just the base game.
Posted by Mohammad jaami
 - May 30, 2020, 00:15:16
its been leaked that the 4th game will be ARK
Posted by Beastman
 - May 29, 2020, 19:32:18
I already owned gtav PC disk version got it again on epic just coz why not. Been a steam user since the late 90's but epic has given more free games than my whole steam library. Not all of them are things I would actually play but who cares they're free.
Posted by AndreFontes
 - May 29, 2020, 17:41:54
This article would've made sense if we were only talking about the single player, offline mode. The key aspect of this offering is the possibility to log onto the Online mode, a no-option with pirated copies.

Also, for regular players, it's pretty clear the idea of this promo was to both boost the sales of shark cards (buying the in-game currency) with both sales at those and eye-catching in-game expensive assets, as well as getting people who didn't got to play the latest installment into the series for the upcoming new release.

This article, sorry to say, seems like a huge shot on the foot. The investigation and premises are right, but lacked to analyse the key aspects of it.