My EGS library consists almost exclusively of these free give aways. Out of 471 titles, I've played... one of them via EGS for more than 2 hours. The EGS app/storefront is just slow and sucks.
Same. I always grab the free games, but I hate using the EGS launcher, and I've barely touched maybe a small handful of the games I have in that library. Some of those games I have on EGS I actually still played on Steam after getting them on EGS, using friend's copies via Steam library share, or just cuz I bought them on Steam (or GOG) anyways.
But similarly I've purchased zero.
Yeah, I'm never going to spend actual money on that storefront.
The whole reason I even have an EGS account to begin with is because I was messing around with UE4 dev stuff. My account comes from the time
before EGS was a general game store. It used to be just a marketplace for UE4 development assets. Back then the XBLA-exclusive game
Shadow Complex was released for free on PC through EGS. I grabbed it cuz I was happy the game
finally came to PC. I didn't realize Epic was just using it as a test to eventually turn their store into a regular video game storefront. I also didn't realize the game was coming to Steam later.
If I didn't already have an Epic account before EGS came into existence the way it is now, I probably never would have bothered to make an account, even for the free games. But since I already had an account, then sure, why not grab all the free games. But yeah I don't ever really actually
use them. On my last PC, when I switched from Win7 to Linux and Win10, I never bothered to install the EGS launcher. I've yet to install it on my current PC.
EDIT: I completely forgot that the
real reason I have an Epic account is not cuz of the UE4 dev stuff, but because I wanted to play the
UT4 alpha.
