Or you can get it for less than $7 dollars from a reputable game service, unlike the fucking joke that is Epic Games Store.
Fallout 3: GOTY Edition is free to keep for the next 24 hours on the Epic Games Store
Submitted 11 months ago by simple@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/fallout-3-game-of-the-year-edition
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“For the next 24 hours, pay for Fallout with your dignity!”
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
“The last laugh is on them, I don’t have any!”
otp@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I don’t get it. What’s wrong with a free game from Epic?
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
There really isn’t.
Some of us just have issues with Epic Games. Some others have issues with Valve.
No private company is really “good.”
But the argument with Epic is things like:
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They brought “exclusives” to PC gaming for the first time. Previously, a PC game was a PC game, and it didn’t matter what storefront you bought it from, because it was available at all storefronts. Epic chose to pay companies to restrict their titles just to Epic, in an attempt to move the market towards them.
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In a similar vein, trying to fight Valve’s dominance, they started giving away free games. They have been firing people left and right because their financials are in the toilet, and yet they’re still pissing away money on free games and exclusives to their store.
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People who care about access to music and paying artists hate them because they have effectively put a death warrant on Bandcamp, buying them for two years, doing nothing with the product, and then selling it to Hedge Fund fuckies who already shitcanned half the staff and the site is officially on life support. They basically killed the last place you could buy music and make sure all the proceeds went to the artist and not a middle man (Bandcamp Fridays).
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During all of this, they refused to spend any money on actually improving their fucking game store. Things that have been staples of Steam for a decade now are still on a waiting list of features to be added. The User Experience for Epic Games Store is just bad, bad, bad, bad. There’s no excuse for it, especially when they chose to piss money away on exclusives and free games instead of paying people to produce a better product than Valve has. They refused to even try to release a better product, believing they could buy their way to dominance.
Do you really want to support a company that doesn’t give a flying fuck about your user experience as a customer and has such bad business plans that they’re letting go tons of staff? It’s bad enough that they had a bad business plan, but it also seems like they’re not very good to their employees, either. Compared to Valve’s “flat” management where there are no managers, or where Newell famously paid the writer for Portal to “be sick” for two years while he had a serious disease. “Your job here at Valve is to get better.” This was before he wrote Portal, no less.
One company clearly cares about the user experience that their users experience, and one clearly cares about using every tool at their disposal to be the top of the market, everything from paying for exclusives and free games to suing in court to try to carve out a niche for yourself where you don’t have to pay vendor fees.
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HKayn@dormi.zone 11 months ago
It’s just terminally online redditors bringing their anti-Epic circlejerk here. There’s nothing wrong with collecting free games from the EGS.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 11 months ago
Ah , well the Epic part no doubt.
simple@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or you can take it for free and just not spend money on EGS? It’s not like taking it would be supporting them.
bridge_too_close@kbin.social 11 months ago
But it does. You're still giving them your data, which they can use for all manner of things. If that's something you don't care about, then more power to you - enjoy your free game.
ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Epic games store is honestly quite decent m8 I’ve been using it since 2020.
kattenluik@feddit.nl 11 months ago
You’re calling out the wrong people, completely missing the point of everything privacy or why the epic store is a bad thing and being an idiot and asshole.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
You’re*
Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
You can use legendary worth heroic as a user interface (both open source projects) to download and play games you own on epic, no need to install their software.
CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Good luck getting it to run no matter where you buy it! You’ll need patches and a prayer circle to play it.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For anyone wondering if it’s that bad, I played it when I got it on Steam and it ran just fine. Then patched it no problem through the either the Workshop or the Nexus Mods manager like three months later
Zahille7@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And if you’re really worried, you can look up a steam guide on how to get it running as smooth as possible on whatever OS you’re running.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
IIRC Bethesda modernized their classic games to run well on modern Windows when they got bought by Microsoft?
corbin@infosec.pub 11 months ago
The latest versions through GOG and (I think) Steam run pretty well, there’s no more GFWL or other stuff that broke a long time ago.
sparr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sadly the checkout dialog has CORS violations that they probably don’t care to fix.
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at ‘https://payment-website-pci.ol.epicgames.com/purchase/xsrf?purchaseToken=XXX&flow=PURCHASE’. (Reason: Credential is not supported if the CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ is ‘*’).Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at ‘https://talon-service-prod.ecosec.on.epicgames.com/v1/init’. (Reason: Credential is not supported if the CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ is ‘*’).Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at ‘https://bam.nr-data.net/1/93a8bd5691?a=27815142&v=1.249.0&to=MlxXbUBZWkJUAkVQCgsWcktTUVhCdg5asdfKVVlcQBdEUEwMVFcRSklUQF9dWkU%3D&rst=1610&ck=0&s=67133c36f4b2d060&ref=https://store.epicgames.com/purchase&ap=271&be=712&fe=717&dc=347&fsh=0&perf=%7B%22timing%22:%7B%22of%22:1703387184928,%22n%22:0,%22f%22:712,%22dn%22:712,%22dne%22:712,%22c%22:712,%22s%22:712,%22ce%22:712,%22rq%22:712,%22rp%22:712,%22rpe%22:712,%22xx%22:1056,%22ds%22:1057,%22de%22:1059,%22dc%22:1428,%22l%22:1428,%22le%22:1429%7D,%22navigation%22:%7B%7D%7D&fcp=963’. (Reason: Credential is not supported if the CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ is ‘*’).Fades@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t give a shit what game is free on epic lol. Even if I wanted this game and didn’t already own it no shot am I going to fuckin epic
Cybersteel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ttw
Grass@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Probably can use it to feed the ttw mod for new Vegas that combines the two into a single game. I used gog versions to install the mod on steam deck and uninstalled fo3 after.
I recommend a significantly stronger CPU computer for the TTW installer though as it converts the audio to be the same format as nv and it took like 5 days on the deck.
Squid@leminal.space 11 months ago
Only get to keep for 24 hours?
vox@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
already have it fro previous giveaway
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Free to keep 😁 on the Epic Games Store 😔