I’ve given up on the free games. I’m sure some are great, but I have enough of a backlog on Steam, I don’t need more indie games. Plus I may as well pay for indie games - it’s the AA and AAA games I want to grab for free.
Now they still have some great AAA games every now and then that I would actually like to grab for free, but due to how much stuff they put out that isn’t interesting to me, I’ve given up looking at it. Doesn’t help that I have to re-login every time, regardless of whether I’m using EGS or Heroic (which is a way better launcher and the one I have installed right now).
At this point I think I need to invest some time in getting an RSS client set up and getting notifications for EGS free games and other things I enjoy that I keep forgetting about. I guess I had notifications when I had the EGS client installed on Windows and it ran on the background, now I only fire up Heroic when I realize it exists.
Edit: No idea why I didn’t do this sooner, I already have Akgregator installed and found this rss feed for free games from a reddit comment. It’s a Steam community and posts games from several sources, including Epic.
Eh, I have repurchased some games on Steam after getting them free from Epic. I rarely play them, but sometimes it’s fun to dig through and find something I claimed. It takes like 30 sec on the web, so I do it when I’m in a meeting or something.
I have to re-login every time
Really? I don’t. Maybe that’s why I’ve bothered claiming them nearly every week. I just open the web page, click the free game, then check out.
New games drop every Thursday at 9AM PST, so it’s easy to remember. I WFH Thursday and Friday, so it’s easy to remember to claim it in the morning. But honestly, any day of the week works since it’s one drop per week.
It’s more frequent during their Christmas sale, and I always forget when it starts, and I don’t care enough to figure it out. So around Christmas, I check the next drop date and when it says the next day, I go on every day.
Yeah, the session token expiry time seems to be something really short. In comparison, Steam has asked me to re-login like 3 times over the last 7 or 8 years I’ve used it (I used to be an active hater and only had it for HL2 and claiming the free games like Portal).
I’ve given up on the free games. I’m sure some are great, but I have enough of a backlog on Steam, I don’t need more indie games. Plus I may as well pay for indie games - it’s the AA and AAA games I want to grab for free.
Now they still have some great AAA games every now and then that I would actually like to grab for free, but due to how much stuff they put out that isn’t interesting to me, I’ve given up looking at it. Doesn’t help that I have to re-login every time, regardless of whether I’m using EGS or Heroic (which is a way better launcher and the one I have installed right now).
At this point I think I need to invest some time in getting an RSS client set up and getting notifications for EGS free games and other things I enjoy that I keep forgetting about. I guess I had notifications when I had the EGS client installed on Windows and it ran on the background, now I only fire up Heroic when I realize it exists.
Edit: No idea why I didn’t do this sooner, I already have Akgregator installed and found this rss feed for free games from a reddit comment. It’s a Steam community and posts games from several sources, including Epic.
Eh, I have repurchased some games on Steam after getting them free from Epic. I rarely play them, but sometimes it’s fun to dig through and find something I claimed. It takes like 30 sec on the web, so I do it when I’m in a meeting or something.
Really? I don’t. Maybe that’s why I’ve bothered claiming them nearly every week. I just open the web page, click the free game, then check out.
New games drop every Thursday at 9AM PST, so it’s easy to remember. I WFH Thursday and Friday, so it’s easy to remember to claim it in the morning. But honestly, any day of the week works since it’s one drop per week.
It’s more frequent during their Christmas sale, and I always forget when it starts, and I don’t care enough to figure it out. So around Christmas, I check the next drop date and when it says the next day, I go on every day.
Yeah, the session token expiry time seems to be something really short. In comparison, Steam has asked me to re-login like 3 times over the last 7 or 8 years I’ve used it (I used to be an active hater and only had it for HL2 and claiming the free games like Portal).