Thursday, May 16th 2019
Epic Announces the "EPIC Mega Sale", with $10 Off on Every Game Above $14.99
EPIC today announced their first ever EPIC Mega Sale, which brings a pretty linear discount across the games catalogue the online store has available for purchase. The company announced it is slashing at least $10/£10/€10 from every game priced above $14.99/£13.99/€15.99. This includes preorders on their own page, which means you can pre-purchase one of those soon to be released Quantic Dream games on the cheap (Heavy Rain and Beyond: two Souls can be yours for €9.99 right now, for instance), and Close to the Sun for €19.99. So if you are looking for some Epic Games Store exclusives (such as Metro Exodus for €34.99), go on and run.
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53 Comments on Epic Announces the "EPIC Mega Sale", with $10 Off on Every Game Above $14.99
Long live Steam!!!
;)
Also, regardless of who you hate or love, there is no denying Steam sales have been lackluster last 3-4 years, compared to yester year shock deals... when they moved from the daily sales to one long sale, it also made the prices less shocking. You might not have noticed though it was quite gradual... but there used to be shock pricing and everyone would get hyped. So at least Epic might bring that back ;) Competition is everything in the free markets.
I have to admit some of these sales are decent. Epic is using that Fortnite money to make some of these games this cheap, no doubt about it.
I also like that EPic Games Store is convincing a lot of developers to provide free demos for everyone... this is one thing about PC gaming I miss dearly, +rep Gabe could have put more pressure on this industry for this as well, but got lazy.
Detroit Become Human, Beyond Two Souls, Heavy Rain, and several others announced today they will be launching demos so you can know 100% before you want to buy or not.
imagine being a brand loyalist and thinking that corporations are your friends
Besides, we've got steam sales, g2a, gamivo, you name it.
Epic is just throwing money at this store. I hope it works out for them. And I also hope that they stop buying exclusives and instead focus on returning some of that margin they're not collecting to customers.