Epic's Free Game Giveaway Continues with Bethesda's 'Ghostwire: Tokyo'

For Epic's Christmas special this year, they're giving away for free "an AAA game that only launched back in 2022..." reports ComicBook.com — a game that invites players to "ally with a powerful spectral entity on theirâquest for vengeance."

ComicBook.com notes that the game giveaway is "not for long... Starting today and lasting until the late morning of December 25." The latest free game on the Epic Games Store is almost certainly the biggest title that users have received so far to coincide with the holidays... Initially released back in March 2022, Ghostwire: Tokyo is developed by Tango Gameworks and published by Bethesda. Since this is a AAA title, Ghostwire: Tokyo normally retails for $59.99 in total. As such, for it to now be free means that this is one of the best deals that Epic has had so far to close out the year...

Epic's ongoing holiday promotion is set to extend to January and should see 17 games in total being handed out at no cost. This promotion will continue tomorrow on Christmas Day when a new freebie lands on the PC platform.

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[thegarbz]

I don't think they'll feel too sorry. At this point they'll have bought it, played it and forgotten about it over a year ago and moved on to the next thing.

Old things go down in price and are sometimes gifted away, news at 11.

All I want for Christmas...

[apn_k]

All I want for Christmas from Epic is a new Unreal Tournament, or at least relist them and bring the master servers back online.

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[arbiter1]

you are getting it for free, if you don't want them then no one really cares what you just said.

Only Windows and macOS clients.

[antdude]

No Linux. :P

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[HalAtWork]

They should release a Linux client and help with Proton. With all of the yelling Tim Sweeny does about wanting to have equal footing on Android and iPhone, and the complaining he did when Microsoft wanted to move to managed APIs on UWP, one would think Epic cared about leveraging strong Linux support and promoting independence from the control of Big OS companies.

But no.

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[tlhIngan]

They should release a Linux client and help with Proton. With all of the yelling Tim Sweeny does about wanting to have equal footing on Android and iPhone, and the complaining he did when Microsoft wanted to move to managed APIs on UWP, one would think Epic cared about leveraging strong Linux support and promoting independence from the control of Big OS companies.

He only cares about money. Going after Apple and Google are the easy targets. He's doing contortions trying to explain what makes Apple's App Stor

Profits vs Giveaways

[krisbrowne42]

So - how many fewer people could they have laid off if they didn’t keep “giving away” loss leader games in hopes of increasing user share?

Free because there's DLC to sell now.

[EldoranDark]

Sales must be low after adding Denuvo to a game that had been DRM free for year.

Please don't run ads for this piece of shit

[thegarbz]

Epic's practices are bad enough, pouring literal billions into free giveaways and fragmenting PC gaming with exclusivity contracts instead of making a compelling product. We don't need to support their dumbfuckery on Slashdot by running ads for them too.

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[codebase7]

If everyone only grabs the freebies, Epic will eventually run out of money. I say let it continue. If anything, it's a way to play a subscription game at no expense to us, while giving a bad actor some pain in their wallet. So we don't have much to loose here.

In the case of Ghostwire: Tokyo, it's not available on a DRM free platform. At least to my knowledge. So no matter where you get it legally from, it's a subscription / rental that can be taken away at the drop of a hat. If you want to try it out, you

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[thegarbz]

If everyone only grabs the freebies, Epic will eventually run out of money.

If everyone grabs freebies then Epic runs to Tencent and other investors and shows it's large user base and investors pour more money into the company to continue the dumbfuckery.

That's how the world works. That's how Uber is still offering rides despite never making a profit. It's how Spotify is still streaming despite being a loss making business. It's why we still hear about stories posted on Twitter, ... err I mean X, despite losing literal billions of dollars and only briefly making a profit for 2 year

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[Can'tNot]

and fragmenting PC gaming

Fragmenting... you make it sound like monopoly busting is bad. PC games on Epic's store are still PC games, there's no barrier to entry there other than extracting your lips from Gabe Newell's ass.

Ultimately, if you really care about software freedom then you're not buying from Epic or Valve. And for those people Epic's efforts are purely good. They are working to bring down that 30% overhead that the gatekeepers have been getting fat on, and they're doing it at great expense to themselves and over the s

EGS is still a pile of shit

[DarkRookie2]

It is design like it was an app store meant for a phone.

Its Bethesda

[DarkRookie2]

It is all their games are worth anyways.
Prolly have to sign up and log in to play the single player, why bother?